Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

WILD WESTERN DAYS

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Yippee Ki-yay ! For the three short stories written about fictional cowpuncher, Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford. The stories that w...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

The SHINING

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This is a guest review from my fifteen year old grandson, Kai O: In The Shining, author Jack Torrance, his wife, Wendy and his five year...
Friday, February 22, 2019

The Great Alone

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Well, I’ll be darned, somebody can actually write a novel without flip-flopping from the present to the past or the past to the present and ...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Clockmaker's Daughter

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This is a novel with many intertwined stories centering around the Birchwood Manor in 1862 England and continuing for the next 150 years. Th...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

RED MOON

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, which was frequently boring and unduly technical, is a murder/mystery whodunit situated on Earth’s moo...
Friday, December 14, 2018

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Are you looking for a poignant story that also displays man’s durability? How about adding viciousness and tenderness to the formula? Then y...
Friday, December 7, 2018

the NEUROMORPHS

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to read and review: Move over Yul Brynner and your Magnificent seven , there’s a new sheriff in to...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

AURORA

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2015 novel is out of this world...literally. The multi-winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards takes us and 2,122 people...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

THE VIKING THRONE

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The author sent me an autographed copy of his novel to read and review: What would you do if a giant sperm whale swallowed you? That’s jus...
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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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