Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Sunday, August 30, 2015

WIND CATCHER

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The authors sent me an autographed copy of their novel to review: When I first started reading this father/daughter written novel, I was ...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

AN OUROBOROS

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to review: This is not a serpent eating his tail at all. Well, what is it? It’s Paul Edward eatin...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

PREFACE

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My bicentennial issue is finally finished. Two hundred reviews and four Rambling Comments (with Rick, of course). I believe that I and my fo...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

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It seems to me that reviewers either loved Paula Hawkins’s novel or hated it...well I liked it. It was an invigorating way to write a novel...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

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Why didn’t this great playwright write more than one novel? The leader of Great Britain’s (he was Irish) Aestheticism movement produced the...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Still Alice

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This is the second guest review from artist and writer, Patricia Koelmel: Still Alice is a 2007 New York Times bestselling novel by Lis...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

THE WOMAN in WHITE

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This novel by Wilkie Collins took me the better part of a month to assimilate. It had to be savored...it was that good. This is the novel t...
Friday, July 3, 2015

FAILED MOMENTS

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to read and review: In Failed Moments ...is A. Robert Allen asking, “If you could, would you re...
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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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