Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

This novel should be titled, The Sleepy-Eyed Man , because that’s what happened to me every time I sat down to read this semi-monotonous wo...

Hunky-dory, Veronica Roth, your book is a bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture (March-2014)... not bad. However I’m getting a l...

The gloom master is darker than normal in this second book of the Border Trilogy. Published in 1994, Cormac McCarthy once again takes the ...

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

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

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

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...