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Harley L. Sachs
93, Male
Houghton,MI
United States
Profile Information:
- Hometown:
- Houghton, Michigan
- About Me:
- About Harley L. Sachs:
Though born in Chicago and raised in Indiana, Harley L. Sachs considers himself an international, having lived in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, and Denmark. He earned a degree in English at Indiana University, then served in the US Army in Germany. After getting his Master's degree at I.U. he returned to Europe and worked under cover for several years. He met and married Ulla in Stockholm, Sweden and they spent a year's honeymoon in a Scottish castle. Returning to the USA, Sachs taught English briefly at Southern Illinois University then moved to Michigan Technological University in the Upper Peninsula where he and his wife raised three daughters. He now divides the year between Michigan and Portland, Oregon.
Harley L. Sachs is the author of many novels, short stories, magazine articles and newspaper columns. His short stories have been broadcast on the BBC World Service short wave and on Oregon Public Radio’s Golden Hours . His awards for writing are too numerous to list. He has over 900 publications.
The web page where 100 word blurbs of his works can be found is www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlsachs. - Website:
- http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlsachs
- Books And Authors I Like:
- I like John LeCarre for his characters, and Robert Parker for his dialogue. I try to have at least one copy of the best mystery and crime authors in my library for a reference. The risk is that an author begins to imitate himself and repeat his old cuccesses. It's like adding more water to the soup until it's bland.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- The best film I've seen in a long time was "Other People's Lives" about the Stasi in E. Germany and the perils of being a member of the secret police. Having created a board game called "Police State" and served under cover though without the resources of the guy inthe movie, I could strongly relate to his problem as he identified with his victims.
Dennis Venter
Apr 18, 2007
reader ree
What I like about the mystery authors that I read and consistently buy more books by: the characters of their series.
Do I like series better than "Stand alone" books?
I like a good book, with great characters NOT to end. I like stand alone type novels all as well as series, however, I will keep going back and buying each and every new book out about characters that I really and truly like. Like there are about 5 authors that I am awaiting on, whew, for the next book to be published!
The dialog must be believable for me. I am reading a book right now, by an author that I have lov'd the books of. This particular book doesn't have the most believeable dialog, to me. What saves it is the humor and the fact that I have so much enjoyed other books by this author. Maybe this author was under pressure to just get this particular book to the publishing house too quickly, and the author lost their momentum and luv for writing of this particular work. Of all the books written by this author and of which I have read, this is only the 2nd one that 'missed', for me. I like the author well enough, that ...okay, that's okay.
I go for mystery suspense first because of the well-drawn story lines as well as the great, in-depth characterizations. The other genre's authors have to live up to mystery/mayhem/whoDoneIt's, for me.
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Jun 10, 2007
Elizabeth Zelvin
Jan 1, 2008