Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Saturday, April 29, 2017

CITIES OF THE PLAIN

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Cormac McCarthy’s third volume of The Border Trilogy offers the reader more about the cowboy life versus the first two novels, All the Pret...
Friday, April 28, 2017

DUMB WITNESS

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Eh bien , it’s been almost four years since I last reviewed a Hercule Poirot mystery...and I wasn’t disappointed. This is my sixth review of...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA

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John O’hara’s 1934 debut novel was written in the style of the American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s, but it didn’t i...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

PROGENY'S PROMISE

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to review: This is a really good sci-fi novel...kudos to the author, Kenneth O. Wick. He did a gre...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

The Tannenbaum Tailors and the Brethren of the Saints (volume 2)

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The author sent my thirteen year old grandson, Kai, an autographed copy of his novel to review: The second novel of the Tannenbaum Tailor...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

the NORTH WATER

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Ian McGuire’s second novel is as dark as it can get, yet somehow the author’s story has occasional breaks in the clouds. How did he do that?...
Friday, March 24, 2017

COINMAN, An Untold Conspiracy

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to review: Pawan Mishra has written a humorous and tormenting story... all at the same time. The f...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

THE LAST KIND WORDS SALOON

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I finally read a Larry McMurtry novel, and I’m glad I did. Most of the reviewers of this 2014 novel gave it one or two stars (47% on Amazon...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

edna & luna

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The author sent me a autographed copy of her novel to review: This is another novel that reminds me of Seinfeld ’s theme for his TV serie...
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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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