Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

LIGHTS on the SEA

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to read and review: Wow, what an opening! A raging thunderstorm in the fictitious town of San Remo...
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ZOMBIE SCARE

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  Halloween short provided by Pat Koelmel, Rick’s Reviews guest contributor:                                  ðŸ’€     ZOMBIE SCARE ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

TILT

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The author sent me an autographed copy of his novel to read and review: Is it too difficult to get one of the five major publishers to pu...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

HOWARDS END

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I did enjoy E. M. Forster’s 1910 classic novel, but it was kind of a sleepyhead read. It’s written in a way that makes the reader reread a l...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

O PIONEERS!

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When I reviewed Thomas Hardy’s novel, Far from a Madding Crowd (see my review of 1/26/2015), I asked the question, “Can anybody write bett...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

Hillbilly Elegy

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This is a long dissertation on what it’s like to be a poor white living in a Rust Belt town in Appalachian Kentucky. This somewhat boring (a...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Preface

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It’s been a little over three years since my last Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O was published. Well get ready, because Volume three is...
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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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