LibraryThing-författare: John Sunseri

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Star Trek 4 av James Blish

Fletch av Gregory McDonald

The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries av Baroness Orczy

The Boys from Brazil av Ira Levin

'Salem's Lot av Stephen King

Vision of the Future av Timothy Zahn

The Murder at Hazelmoor av Agatha Christie

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Bibliotek3,164 böcker — se bibliotek

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TaggarMystery (849), Thriller (553), Science Fiction (443), Horror (320), Literature (169), Fantasy (139), Collection (133), Humor (121), Anthology (100), Speculative Fiction (79) — se alla taggar

Grupper The Writers, 101 Reasons to Stop Writing, Cthulhu Mythos, Oregonians, The Weird Tradition, Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night, Weird Fiction, Writer's Brag and Rag Bag, Writer-readers

FavoritförfattareClive Barker, David Brin, Michael Chabon, Michael Connelly, David Conyers, Tim Curran, Kevin L. Donihe, David James Duncan, Harlan Ellison, Frederick Forsyth, Dashiell Hammett, C. J. Henderson, Barry Hughart, Philip Kerr, Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, David Morrell, Peter O'Donnell, Robert B. Parker, Tim Powers, John Sandford, Dan Simmons, Martin Cruz Smith, Donald E. Westlake (Delade favoriter)

Om mig I'm a full-time restaurant manager, a part-time writer of speculative fiction (just finished my first novel! Can't find an agent! May have to go to New York and kidnap one!), and married to the best wife on the planet - she lets me sit in front of the computer on my days off and write about werewolves and zombies and dragons and stuff.

I've been published all over the small press, and in several anthologies (which you can find on LibraryThing), and a collection of tales I co-wrote with a fellow named David Conyers just got picked up by a publisher for release next year, so I should be able to get one of those pretty yellow badges next to my name pretty soon. Looking forward to it...

A list of my ten favorite books? Why not? (though, of course, this is subject to frequent and spasmodic change)...

The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Let's see...I've got selections from the worlds of mystery, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic poetry, great literature, humor...I can live with this list. At least until the next time I make one...

Om mitt bibliotek I'm gradually cataloguing my library here as I recover it from my friend's basement - it takes a long time to move thousands of books!

Hemsidahttp://www.freewebs.com/thespiralingworm/index.htm

Riktigt namnJohn Sunseri

PlatsPortland, OR

E-postjohn_sunseriyahoo.com

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Medlem sedanSep 20, 2006

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Thanks for being my friend. ;-) Holy cow, 3,154 books! Nice.

I am heading to the states for a week in September and I'm ordering a suitcasefull of books from Amazon.com to bring back to DK with me. Can you recommend anything by John Sunseri?

inlägg gjort av kellyannekeenan vid 12:45 pm (EST) Jul 16, 2008

Thanks for your comments about my user name. It is after my company, which is called "Farmer's Hat Productions" ( http://farmershatproductions.com ) Perhaps if I could change it to FarmersHat.

I hope you and your wife enjoy our books with the children at the Montessori center. The books are currently being used as part of the literary non-fiction curriculum in the St. Paul School district here in Minnesota. We have a website where kids can go and play an easy interactive game playing hide and seek with our characters ( http://burburandfriends.com )

Thanks for passing them along and please feel free to let me know your thoughts after you have had a chance to see them.

Warmest Regards,
-Kakie

inlägg gjort av farmershat vid 11:19 pm (EST) May 19, 2008

Hey John,
Justed wanted to let you know, I finally got around to ordering some new books, and The Spriraling Worm should be arriving at my doorstep in the next few days. I can't wait to read it!

Kami

inlägg gjort av klarsenmd vid 4:28 pm (EST) Apr 18, 2008

I emailed you the questions earlier today. If you need them sent some other way, please let me know. I could copy them to a private message here, if you like.

Now back to try and get more things done....

inlägg gjort av zette vid 8:29 pm (EST) Apr 14, 2008

I suffered through a weekend of computer disasters -- first my keyboard and then my internet connection, and I think something else in there. I am getting your questions together, but I suspect it might take me another day!

inlägg gjort av zette vid 10:13 pm (EST) Apr 13, 2008

Thanks for the answer! Sorry I'm so late getting back yet again. I've been very busy the last few days, but I'll get the Interview Questions together and email them off to you by the end of this weekend. I hope.

Thanks!

zette

inlägg gjort av zette vid 5:17 am (EST) Apr 12, 2008

Hi, John--You'd be a welcome addition. People at redroom will help you if you get stuck. Let me know if you should have trouble and I can help, too. I've never mean in my life, just humorous and mostly a Goody-Two-Shoe. Fondly, B

inlägg gjort av belleyang vid 5:48 pm (EST) Feb 6, 2008

John,

I'm glad you enjoyed "The Encounter." Thanks for visiting my web-page!

Dennis

inlägg gjort av dgbryant vid 9:10 am (EST) Jan 14, 2008

Oh, man. I need to stop starting new books. It's just so easy to reserve them online in the middle of the night. Damn the Albuquerque Library system and its awesome online services...

I'm currently in the midst of 3 Uses of the Knife (David Mamet), The Elements of Style (Strunk/White, illus by Maira Kalman), A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), The Intuitionist (Colson Whitehead), and On Writing (Stephen King). I really am reading them all, bit by bit. I do not recommend this technique, however.

And I have a whole stack of books to go.

inlägg gjort av Xiguli vid 2:13 am (EST) Jan 10, 2008

Happy still-newish year, John! What're you reading?

inlägg gjort av Xiguli vid 2:43 pm (EST) Jan 9, 2008

I should be thanking you, I think, not the other way around.

But I'm very glad to run into you.

inlägg gjort av Xiguli vid 1:33 am (EST) Dec 10, 2007

Thanks for visiting my blog!

I have written in such a long time. I've got a little catching up to do! I really appreciate your visit. I'll take a look at your catalogue, today.

LheaJ

inlägg gjort av LheaJLove vid 8:11 am (EST) Nov 27, 2007

Thanks again, John. Hope to get to know you better as time flies on. And on and on.

inlägg gjort av TheresaWilliams vid 3:02 pm (EST) Oct 8, 2007

John, thank you for your comment about THE SHINING and the labyrinth. I needed to make that clear, didn't I? --Theresa

inlägg gjort av TheresaWilliams vid 11:45 pm (EST) Oct 7, 2007

Good to meet you too, John. It's always a nice surprise to encounter someone who knows their weird fiction!

inlägg gjort av ken10 vid 10:37 am (EST) Aug 8, 2007

Hi John - nice to meet you too, I also love folk who love owning books. Books are a rooms most interesting furniture. We share a few I see. Good luck with finding a publisher for your novel.

Kind regards
Caroline
(London)

inlägg gjort av Caroline_McElwee vid 8:29 am (EST) Jul 31, 2007

Nice to meet you too, John. I think I've read you in Bare Bone? Maybe a story called Small Gods? I liked that one.

inlägg gjort av bradley_sands vid 1:15 am (EST) Jul 17, 2007

It's a deal. When you get your copies, drop me your mailing address and I'll do the same.

I remember the A's in their glory days. Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson. And the weirdest owner imaginable, Charles O. Finley. Maybe that's before your time. Now they're a team with a good track record for developing young talent from within, rather than big free agent signings. Good for them. I HATE teams like the Yankees who try to buy a championship every year and even my beloved Red Sox have fallen into that trap. I say "beloved" but I don't really watch baseball nowadays. Again, i refer to a bygone era, the mid-70's, Fred Lynn, Cecil Cooper, Luis Tiant, "Spaceman" Bill Lee.

Enough of the nostalgia trip, eh?

Have a good one, laddie.

Cliff

inlägg gjort av CliffBurns vid 11:07 am (EST) Jul 7, 2007

Cheers, John!

inlägg gjort av Scaryguy vid 7:43 am (EST) May 26, 2007

Time for me to tell you to leave that meaningless thread alone, huh? Geez! I have to give it to you that you're more diplomatic than me, but there is a point where nukes are the only solution. ;)

The problem with self-righteous people is that they want to shove their ideas down your face without even understanding where your position is. I don't even think they can agree to disagree. I tell you what, let's do something easier than bark around that thread anymore. Why don't we learn Klingon?

inlägg gjort av Scaryguy vid 11:42 am (EST) May 25, 2007

Rock on, John! I tell you, man, on that recent posting I almost pulled a Cartman - "Screw you guys, I'm going home!" ;)

inlägg gjort av Scaryguy vid 6:12 am (EST) May 22, 2007

I'm glad you joined the Oregonians group. I just joined it myself. I think these "local" groups are more interesting if there are a lot of people in them.

Good luck with your book.

I was thinking of starting a thread about local authors on the Oregonians page. Some place where people like you, or other group members, could make announcements about readings, publications, other events, etc.

inlägg gjort av ggchickapee vid 8:52 pm (EST) Mar 7, 2007

After a long pause, I just wanted to say I'd enjoyed the first half or two-thirds of Bridge of Birds a great deal - and gotten derailed in reading it, as in most things, by the holidays. I keep meaning to go back. (Having fairly strict goals for reading in January didn't help matters, either.) However, even in this unfinished stage, I'm glad of the extra push your recommendation gave. I'm aiming to pick it up again in the next week, and see how the quest turns out, out last!

How's your year, so far?

Julie

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 12:29 am (EST) Feb 1, 2007

John,

It's funny. I'd just sat down - guilt-laden - to answer you and another few comments, when I got the new one! My apologies for the delay.

Many thanks, on both congratulations and on your offer. For now, I'm musing about all the (more major) changes that need to be made. But one of these days, I expect I'll take you up on it. It would be valuable to have a different view, and I appreciate it very much. Hope your own writing is going well...

I just got a copy of Bridge of Birds. Next up for fiction?

Hoping you both stay well and unstressed in the lead-up to the holidays,

Julie

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 7:49 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2006

Hey John,

Thanks for taking a look at my books! This is a cool site and I really appreciate you hooking me up with it. I haven't bought a membership yet, but I will before the end of the year - 200 books just doesn't near cover it.

I will let you know when I get all of my books in (sometime in - hopefully - the near future) and we can compare notes!

Thanks again!

inlägg gjort av bretjordan vid 9:31 am (EST) Nov 20, 2006

Hi, John. Sorry to be so very slow in replying. But I did, as of 11:43 p.m., have 40,074 words of my draft written. :) It will be finished in a month - apparently - but at best will only be first draft. Nonetheless, my thanks: your comments came at an encouraging moment, and sent me right back to writing.

As far as Gun, with Occasional Music - I loved it. It knocks the socks off Motherless Brooklyn, as far as I'm concerned, despite his verbal virtuosity there. There were points where I felt the comparison of this or that to Tourette's AGAIN was forced. It didn't flow. And yet he's unquestionably very gifted and capable of originality. Gun has a very neo-Chandlerian feel and tone, and the homage is made deliberate in an epigraph by Chandler. It's fairly streamlined and fast and has a terrific dystopian setting - the kind it never hurts to see again. Given the recommendations of sci-fi-laced-mystery, I bet you'll love it, too.

Must read Lehane, one of these days...

Best wishes,

Julie

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 1:53 am (EST) Nov 16, 2006

Gorky Park is one of my favourite books too. The best thriller ever written in my opinion.

David

inlägg gjort av DavidConyers vid 8:34 pm (EST) Nov 14, 2006

Hey, I just finished your story in [HARDBOILED CTHULHU] and I did enjoy their Miskatonic caper. You ought to write a bunch of short stories or a novel on their adventures especially since their territory is Arkham and Innsmouth area? THink of all the weird clients they could have or the relics they could steal? Maybe one of your jewel thieves is actually half Elder-God or something? I wish I had the talent to write!! Write on, John!

Peanut

inlägg gjort av localpeanut vid 2:16 pm (EST) Nov 12, 2006

Sounds like a great evening, and I hope you both enjoyed it. :) As for myself, I was diverted by a nephew, and an ensuing busier day; hence the slow answer.

As I actually came across Fen first, it never occured to me to take him as a pale rip-off on Fell! But I suppose you're right. Much as I enjoy Crispin's books, there's often a greater depth of pleasure in Carr's; and Fell himself is more appealing. However, Crispin is daft enough I believe all good mystery readers should at least TRY his books. :) It's a quality that's much needed in the world.

As for Iles being Berkeley, and vice versa, I had completely forgotten! I did 'hear' it once, but it went in one (visual) ear, and out the other. (All the more reason to get The Poisoned Chocolates Case, she mutters to herself...) The other two were, of course, exactly what I had in mind.

My first foray into any blending of sci-fi and mystery is set to be Jonathan Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music, as I've been waiting on the arrival of a copy, consigned to the mail. Afterward, however, I may give some of these others a try. It's tempting.

Best wishes on rounding up and cataloguing all your whiskey crates...

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 6:16 pm (EST) Oct 30, 2006

They sound delightful! I love the title The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks! That itself would sell me. I am not at all a fan of modern cozies - but the old ones, and subverting them, certainly. :) All I can say to you in return (besides 'thank you' and 'I will report back') is: where is your Edmund Crispin, then? Surely, if you like anything so silly, you'd enjoy him?

Or am I wrong? Does Gervase Fen offend?

I'm missing the Berkeley, still; but enjoyed Trent's Last Case very much, not least for being dedicated to Chesterton in return for The Man Who Was Thursday. I haven't looked, but speaking of subverting conventions, have you any Francis Iles?

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 10:51 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2006

Thank you! Oddly, I'd been looking up something about Orpheus (and Eurydice) in the last week or two, and ran across a mention of it. I appreciate the recommendation.

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 10:33 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2006

John (if I may thus abbreviate):

You're most welcome! And congratulations!! Surely you qualify for the badge, then - unless I misremember its requirements?

As my own collection dwindles beside yours and others, I may have to steal new ideas from the carton-loads you add. Speaking of which, Emma Lathen is new to me. - You see how easily the limits of my knowledge are reached! ;) As she comes in one breath with Josephine Tey, it's clearly an omission I need to rectify. Any recommendation on where to start?

Hopefully the comments - personal and authorial - will begin to flow in.

Julie

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 10:27 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2006

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