Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

The story of Pounce, the nanny bot, and his charge, eight-year-old Ezra is endearing as well as violent. C. Robert Cargill writes an apocaly...

Anne Sebba gives the reader a chilling look at the death of Ethel Rosenberg, who along with her husband, Julius, were convicted of giving At...

Oops! Science, science, science, it must be another novel from the self-proclaimed space nerd, Andy Weir. I was bored by the potato farming ...

  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...