Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

I, The Jury

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Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer transcends toughness in his 1947 debut novel that sets the tone for this vigilante Private Investigator. Ha...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Winter of our Discontent

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The Nobel Prize winning novel (1962) examines this question: Can one take a respite from good morals, do things totally out of character, ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

INFERNO

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Dan Brown should be named the comeback writer of the year after his mediocre novel, The Lost Symbol , crashed and burned in 2009. Though ...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

NEW EARTH

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The premise of this novel was innovative and ingenious for the first hundred pages or so. Then it sputtered and fizzled out like a dud fir...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Proof of Heaven

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If this story is real, it’s great news for every good egg out there. If you are not a straight shooter then I suggest you grab a copy of D...
Monday, August 5, 2013

the WRATH of COCHISE

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I like my history written with a little pizzazz, but unfortunately this book had a drowsy effect on me. Many reading sessions ended with m...
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rick o.
I started reading in earnest during high school, because of a wonderful English teacher. I basically read the classics. I would buy one Signet Classic after another. My favorite being David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I stopped serious reading while serving four years in the U.S.Marine Corps. When I got out, I started reading every genre possible. I still like reading all types of novels including sci-fi, historical fiction, non-fiction and lately I like non-fiction that reads like fiction. A example would be 'Destiny of the Republic' by Candice Millard, or 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson. But knowing me, a new genre of writing could get my interest and I'll start reading that. I still read sci-fi, even if I'm hot on a new genre. So my thanks goes out to my teacher for opening my eyes to the likes of Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, and my favorite name, William Makepeace Thackeray.
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