Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

The next time you take a road trip, you can thank four famous Americans for putting the idea in your head to begin with. Jeff Guinn tells th...

David Wellington writes the best surreal first contact sci-fi novel I’ve ever read. What an unusual ending. I’ve read many novels where a un...

Neal Stephenson’s latest mammoth story (883 pages) is, as usual, a very elaborate, complicated, technical story. It starts off with easy to ...

You would think that a novel about both parents suddenly leaving their two children to be cared for by unknowns in 1945 England would be e...

Can Bud Hutchins (PI/inventor) possibly get into anything crazier than his last adventure (see my review of The Elixir on 12/9/2017)? Oh y...

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! This was 550 pages of wonderful bohemian writing. It’s an extraordinary story about a very young madchen, Liesel, an...

The author sent me a copy of his novel to read and review: Nick M. Lloyd writes an avant-garde sci-fi thriller that breaks out of your typ...

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

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...