I would have to add Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment as a brilliant thriller. It introduces a captivating protagonist and detective in a cat and mouse game against great themes. That seminal novel had unquestionable impact on thrillers.
This presentation reminds me about what my favorite bookstore owner once said about authors recommending other authors: many of them are in each other's pockets; they're more likely to build up whom they like personally rather than based on merit. Now I've read several of Ms. Scottoline's novels and think she's a top-notch thriller writer, but I'm willing to wager that she has relationships with several of these authors that involve promoting each other.
Watching this is 2020 and having flashbacks of going to Borders. Miss this store so much. They always had a great selection of titles and even hard to find books as well, not like crappy B&N. PLEASE BRING BACK BORDERS!!!!
@@stefanmarkov6775 Books-A-Million is ok but I still think Borders is better. At least the one that was in my neighborhood. Both are still way better then Barnes & Nobel.
In my opinion, "The Eye of the Needle," by Ken Follett is by far one of the best thriller authors from Britain! Although I've enjoyed, "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold," La Carre's "Smiley" was too slow, and I had to force myself to finish it. It thereby became my last read from La Carre.
I noticed she walked right past John Sandford and Lee Child and also James Lee Burke all of whom write circles around her favorites. Janet Evanovich? Fluff. Dan Brown? Living off the “Davinci Code”. Nelson Demille? Like a sedative.
Arturo Perez Reverte in Spain is seen more like an attention seeker than a good writer, sometimes he uses twitter to say something scandalous and he is trendic topic but not his books, that's sad...
She didn't even give Sandford a glance. And it seems as if she doesn't even know coben and Lippman But she redeemed herself by mentioning Connelly and Baldacci
Leaving out Daniel Silva and Brad Thor in the thriller genre? Silva may well be the finest novelist of our time while a Lee Child is barely readable and John Grisham, like Child IMO, is just not a good writer. But the movie "The Firm" made his career. De gustabus non est disbutandum, I guess.
I totally agree with everything you wrote here. Silva is a great writer though I am tiring of Allon now. I was the same with Patricia Cornwall. First 6 books were great then she changed her style and she lost it for me. I've tried and failed like yourself with Lee Child. I'm also not impressed with Dan Brown as a writer or James Patterson. For me I need more than just a good story teller. I need it to be well written as well! But who am I to criticise two guys who prob earn 20 mill a year each.
I haven't watched this video yet, but judging on the comments here, I'd say you most likely write better than Dan Brown already. (Not saying his books aren't fun, but they're definitely the lowest form of literature I've got on my reading history.)
Interesting A to Z on thrillers. Never read any of this writer's books or any of the ones she recommends. But after her enthusiastic summary, I may dip my toes in this pond. However, the whole video was ruined at the end when her integrity, basic integrity is shot to smithereens by her foul and regrettable comment about not giving a toss about ebola. This is the wrong thing to say when so many African lives have been lost to this disease.....and this is the problem I guess, rich people living in rich countries do not give a flying FCUK essentially. Yet if this virus had taken hold in the good ol USA, then just maybe she would not be so wrapped up in her thriller fiction that she misses the woods for the trees........ she makes this comment when discussing the book: The Hot Zone.
Congrats on writing so many books. I like your books. But so disappointed to find that you're a big fan of Dan Brown. He's a bad writer, a good plotter, and an outrageousness manipulator of research which is not accurate and self-serving.
Roger. It goes to show how standards have dropped. He is a biased writer, not objective, and manipulates truth. Sure, it's fiction he writes, but he appeals to the ignorant.
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Well, her taste fits in with commercial interests - good work Borders!! Her choices are obvious and boring, and Dan Brown? Really? He's a hack, and most of the others are hardly top writers. yikes.
Wow what an embarrassing video. Talk about dumbing down women. The female lead character works because she's clutzy but so endearing. Oh and look how good looking David Baldacci is! Oh this author is brilliant cos she includes romantic relationships.... Bleugh...
