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The Risk Pool

The Risk Pool

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Read
Review: This book is excellent yet not as good as Nobody's Fool. It takes place in the eyes of a young boy growing up with a derelict father, but very likeable, and a neurotic mother in a depressed small town. The characters are well developed and great.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: beautifully written with well-drawn characters
Review: The Risk Pool was wonderful, as are all of Russo's books, but I think that this one is my favorite. Russo has become my favorite author because of his characters, which are so realistic and fully developed. I recommend his books to all my friends.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another Rave Review
Review: Let me add my 5 stars to the list. This is an excellent novel, offering unforgettably vivid characters and a realistic portrait of small-town life. Despite a lazy pace and a warm, quiet tone, this book speakes volumes about ordinary people and the subtleties of human relationships.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lessons in Life
Review: A Professor raved so much about this book I had to get it--and then a friend swiped it from under my nose. After regaining my now-tattered copy I discovered the greatest book I have read to date. It remains amoung the few that have made me laugh out loud, and I found his intuitions about life right on target. The theme of father figures is especially valuable. It is the first time that I've seen my own feelings towards an absent father reflected in a novel; they are forever a haunting force. I look forward to reading his other books.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Russo's finest book to date
Review: Though _Nobody's Fool_ seems to be more popular (presumably because of the film), this novel is the funniest, saddest and most humane work of a writer who deserves comparison with Dickens and Twain. One of the finest postwar novels, and not to be missed!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: characters demand our attention and complicate our judgment
Review: I've stepped in after seven others who loved this book and I want only to add my voice to theirs. I count this book, with three or four others, as the best new fiction I've read in fifteen years. The others: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, William McPherson's Testing the Current, Roddy McDowald's (sp?) Paddy Clarke HA HA HA, and Tobias Wolff's The Night in Question.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: funny, sad, anecdotal - brilliant
Review: After reading Nobody's Fool I had to read everything Richard Russo had written. The Risk Pool is a brilliant book. I felt as if I were living in the story. Ned's life with his sad depondent mother and his shiftless irresponsible father makes a very interesting book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: If you haven't read Russo, you're missing an experience!
Review: I discovered Russo and fell in love with the characters he generates - real people - funny, pathetic, loveable, flawed - people you know. He is a masterful creator, a spinner of tales nonpareil.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No Risk Here..Richard Russo is the best.
Review: I'm on a quest-to spread the word about how good an author Russo is.The Risk Pool is probably the most satisfying novel I've ever read.I'm in awe of Russo's ability to create likeable characters; and , as Don Imus would say, they are laugh out loud funny

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The impact a community has on a boy.
Review: I keep reading "The Risk Pool" to visit with the characters within the story. Ned Hall grows up and has little contact with his father, but the time he spends with his father is filled with interesting and unsavory miscreants. There is little danger in Ned's life, except the the possibility of ending up like his dad, the king of the misfits. I often check Amazon to see if any of my favorite authors has written any more books, and I usually check Richard Russo first. His other books are not as good as this, but "Nobody's Fool" is also excellent. It took me a long time to find a copy without Paul Newman's face on the cover, though.


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