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comment This thread has become so much better since I made my comments about it's previous drivel. My apologies to any one I offended. The loquacious reviewer is coming out of some of you!;) Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Isaac's storm The deadliest natural disaster in America is told by one of the rising stars in literature, Erik Larson. The time is 1900, the place is Galveston, Texas, the event is a massive hurricane aimed directly at the Texas island. This storm will kill 6,000 to 12,000 people depending on...

Five little pigs Wee, wee, wee, I had the right murderer, but then I changed my mind; I shouldn't have. Mais voyons, I made a faux pas that Hercule never would have made. Now I'm talking gobbledegook! Once again, Agatha Christie entertains the reader with the great Belgian detective who lives...

This Forum :DTo Beer Good: You are one of the few that know what I'm talking about! Your cognitive responses make me want to read the book. There are no ambiguities in your short and concise reviews. Well done. Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Lusitania Lusitania by Diana Preston The new gong.:lol: Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

forum This has to be the most humdrum readers that I've ever encountered. Why even report your book? Just check it off and go on to the next.:flowers: Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Recently read reviews I understand what you people are saying, but I still say it doesn't make sense to just write for example: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. What does anyone get out of that? To give the member the flavor of the book, I would say: Eh bien,I figured it out! I actually...

Reviews I marvel at the lack of rendering a description of a book recently read by a lot of members. It's not very helpful for other members, if just the name of the book and author are left. Let us know a little about the book- did you like it? Did you like the author? I would rather the...

A secret life This is the fifth non fiction book pertaining to presidents from the late 1800's that I've read recently and it is a good one! It's not quite of the thriller ilk, but it's close. This book stays with the facts gathered by Charles Lachman's extensive research, but still leaves the...

Just finished: Canada I know Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize winner, but to me this novel was just adequate at best. I have to admit that this is the first novel I have read of his, but I expected more after reading the reviews of his 'The Bascombe Novels' . A John Irving he's not. The story...

Just finished: In one person I don't know what caused John Irving to choose this subject matter, but coming from him you know it's not drivel. Does this novel have latent content that the reader is not aware of? This novel does have a digression from his usual novels, although some of his...

To: Jillian76 Drood was written by Dan Simmons, the Pearl book that I was talking about is The Last Dickens. If you liked Drood, you will love Terror and Black Hills by Dan Simmons- highly rated books by me. The other Matthew Pearl books are: The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club. These are all...

Vampire Novel Even though I enjoyed the book, I'm not sure I'm sold on this type of writing. I've read three books by Matthew Pearl, but he writes novels about real people, like Charles Dickens, in a historical time frame. If Seth Grahame-Smith wrote about Dickens, it would probably be "Charles...

Just finished: 11/22/63 Stephen King touched on horror with 'It', tickled us with fantasy in 'Lisey's Story' , emotionally stirred us with the apocalyptic 'The Stand', dealt with science fiction in 'Under the Dome' and now he challenges the great Harry Turtledove with this alternate history...

Just finished: Thunderstruck Erik Larson juxtaposes a murderer and a inventor and makes it work! This writer will never run out of ideas as witnessed by this historical non-fiction, which is an exemplar of this likable genre of writing. I'm a big fan of this kind of book, only because the...

Just finished: The battle of the crater Gingrich and Forstchen have written one of the most meaningful Civil War novels to date. It reveals the northern general's blunders and also reports hereto unknown information on the brave United States Colored Troops ( the USCT ). After reading this...

Just finished: Death on the nile Eh bien! I figured it out! I actually came up with the correct killer, or killers shortly after The millionaire heiress, Linnet Doyle was found shot in the head on page 148. I didn't need all the clues used by our beloved Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. I got...

Just Finished: 1Q84 Japan's Haruki Murakami writes a surreal novel for the intellectual reader with a touch of fantasy. This is not a completely lucid story, nor byzantine, so I would title it semiabstract. Haruki may be the leader of a new genre. It's almost like he didn't write the novel for...

To Patria I read your review on amazon- very good. You seem to like Vampire books, did you read " The Historian " by Elizabeth Kostova? It's an epistolary novel that will scare the bejabbers out of you! I voted 'yes' on your review. Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Just finished: FDR's funeral train Warning: The woebegoneness level of this non-fiction book is very high. It's also a fact filled historical recreation of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train journey of April 13-15, 1945. Robert Klara writes an interesting and perceptive volume...