Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

  On 4/2/2012 I wrote a review of Haruki Murakami’s bestseller, 1Q84 , and stated that this Japanese author writes in a semi-abstract way ai...

  It’s not just another story about a comet hitting earth...well it is in a way, but for all intents and purposes, it’s about how the hoi po...

This stellar novel by Sylvia Plath spawned me to think about how delicate the human brain is. Sylvia connects suicide with a bell jar. I tho...

  This special signed edition available through B&N was supposed to be YA king Christopher Paolini’s first adult novel. It read like a ...

My favorite non-fiction writer who writes like a fiction writer, Erik Larson, has finally disappointed me. His latest novel is nothing more ...

If you are a chauvinist pig, you will love this 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood. While there are no creatures such as the crakers in Atwood’...

It was a good novel, but not as good as I thought it would be. The premise got my sci-fi mind drooling. Just think of it...the rotation of t...

Move over Erik Larson, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Chris Wallace (just kidding). Well, Wallace’s book is certainly on par ...

Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle (see my first review of 11/15/2010) writes an enjoyable tale of Babe Ruth’s historical b...

I’m always a little leary of historical fiction novels written by Fox News Network celebrities. Most of them are published in an uncannily f...