Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Monday, November 17, 2014

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel poses interesting questions. Can an extraordinary person murder an inferior person and avoid punishment? Is this e...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

The City of Ember

This is a guest review from my eleven year old grandson, Kai Ohlarik: An underground city built for unknown reasons is dying.The storero...

Sunday, October 26, 2014

The CLEVER Mill Horse

The author sent me an autographed copy of her novel for review: What seemed like a boring concept, turned out to be a suspense filled tal...

Thursday, October 16, 2014

in the KINGDOM of ICE

Hampton Sides...you did it again! A narrative nonfiction book that is factual but told in a way that seems fictional. It doesn’t get any be...

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury ask this question...Can love combined with happiness, laughing, and dancing conquer evil? It will take 290 terrifying pages to...

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About Me

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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