In Triplicate: Unlikely Tales

by Dermot O'Hanlon

A COLLECTION OF VERY VARIED TALES.

Genres: Ebooks

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 2, 2016

About the author

I spent the early years of my life in the Curragh Camp, Co.Kildare, Ireland, before my family moved to Dublin about 1939. My secondary education was at the Dominican College, Newbridge, while I was living in the Curragh Camp, and at St.Andrew's CBS with the Irish Christian Brothers in Westland Row, Dublin. After leaving school, I was a railway clerk in country stations in Enniscorthy, Co.Wexford, and Navan, Co.Meath, for four or five years. I then commenced my medical studies at University College, Dublin, and qualified as a doctor in 1952. I then emigrated to England, and after pursuing ophthalmology as a specialty in St.Paul's Eye Hospital, Liverpool, The Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, and Southampton Eye Hospital, practized as an ophthalmologist in Colchester, Essex, until my retirement in 1986. I then returned to Ireland to live in Co. Wicklow.

Reviews

[Tucker · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know what to make of this. There was a recurring typo I've never seen before in my life: The author does not know that one puts a space after a comma or a semicolon. This,as you might imagine,made the book visually difficult to read;it was difficult,moreover,for me,anyway,to adjust to it. Spellcheck was not run, evidenced by a smattering of typos that spellcheck would have caught ("muscically" rather than "musically," "readly" rather than "ready"). Lines are indented inconsistently (Kindle version). In one case, an "equals sign" was used instead of a hyphen. This was a fatal distraction. I spent the entire time wanting to run a "find-and-replace" on the entire manuscript to turn "comma" into "comma-space." Since clearly no one other than the author looked at the manuscript before it was self-published, I wonder what other aspects of the stories might have benefited from editorial feedback, and I feel that it is not really my job as the reader to spend time giving that early-stage level of critical feedback. It is unfortunate, because the writer shows a highly creative use of language and dialogue. I wanted these stories to work, but I couldn't take them seriously because of the rough state they were presented in.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received In Triplicate as part of the Giveaway program. The stories were interesting. There were many twists and turns. Granted none were interesting enough to warrant a novel, but interesting nonetheless. It was something I wouldn't read normally.

[Alan Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collection of Stories

A collection of short stories that mostly were entertaining. Nothing profound enough for 5 stars but decent enough to pass time.
I received a complementary copy via #GoodreadsGiveaway

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice quick read

[G · Rating 2 out of 5]

Won as part of a giveaway

The tales in this book have interesting concepts but would be better if they were fleshed out a tad more. However, they are good for a quick read.