Patrick O'Leary
Author of The Gift
About the Author
Works by Patrick O'Leary
The Dream Of Vibo 2 copies
The Oldest Man On Earth 2 copies
The Bearing of Light 1 copy
Whensday 1 copy
The Verge Of A Pucker 1 copy
What Mattered Was Sleep 1 copy
That Laugh 1 copy
Bat Boy 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- O'Leary, Patrick
- Legal name
- O'Leary, Patrick G.
- Birthdate
- 1952-09-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Saginaw, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Troy, Michigan, USA
Canton, Michigan, USA - Education
- Wayne State University (BA | Journalism)
- Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Agent
- Susan Ann Protter
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Reviews
51 by Patrick O'Leary
A science fiction story about imaginary friends being real creatures. It is written as a person telling another person stories of their life. This makes it a largely flash back book, with the stories jumping all over the place. It made the story disjointed. The idea of the story is interesting, but I'm not a fan of flashbacks, so this just wasn't a book for me.
So this was pretty original but really strange and confusing. There was some poignant writing going on about alcoholism, divorce, love etc... and some of that was REALLY dark, especially if you've been through a divorce, and/or maybe if you're an alcoholic (I haven't experienced that so can't really comment).
The biggest problem I had with this book was the lack of dialogue tags. There's a LOT of dialogue in this book. There are a couple of "action" scenes but otherwise it's just two guys talking, and one guy telling stories. I often couldn't tell who was saying what. There was even a time when one character says "That's where the nickname 'Nuke' came from." But he was talking about himself, BUT he wasn't Nuke. So I was totally lost and thought it must just be a typo or something.
The frustrating confusion about who was talking and what was going on, was evenly balanced with some "deep" and imaginative writing. Hence the 3 stars. If it would have been another 50 pages it would have been too long and gotten 2.… (more)
The biggest problem I had with this book was the lack of dialogue tags. There's a LOT of dialogue in this book. There are a couple of "action" scenes but otherwise it's just two guys talking, and one guy telling stories. I often couldn't tell who was saying what. There was even a time when one character says "That's where the nickname 'Nuke' came from." But he was talking about himself, BUT he wasn't Nuke. So I was totally lost and thought it must just be a typo or something.
The frustrating confusion about who was talking and what was going on, was evenly balanced with some "deep" and imaginative writing. Hence the 3 stars. If it would have been another 50 pages it would have been too long and gotten 2.… (more)
A number of intriguing pieces. Not quite sure if they add up to an equally interesting whole.
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Statistics
- Works
- 17
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 495
- Popularity
- #49,936
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 12
- ISBNs
- 21
- Languages
- 2