View Poll Results: Which thriller would you like to read in January?

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  • Next Episode

    5 18.52%

  • Crime and Punishment

    3 11.11%

  • The Eight

    2 7.41%

  • The Day Of The Jackal

    4 14.81%

  • Rebecca

    2 7.41%

  • The New York Trilogy

    7 25.93%

  • The Ghost

    2 7.41%

  • The Sea Hawk

    0 0%

  • Night Watch

    2 7.41%

  • In the Heat of the Night

    0 0%
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Thread: Jan '09 / Thriller Poll

  1. 11-01-2008, 06:43 PM #1
    Scheherazade
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    Jan '09 / Thriller Poll

    In January 2009, we will be reading a thriller.

    Please nominate the book you would like to read in this thread by November 30th.

    Please remember that:

    - Only those members with 50+ posts can nominate.

    - One nomination per member.

    - Only the first 10 nominations will be included in the poll.


    The Book Club readings are for those who would like to read and discuss books together with other members.

    If you are not able to take part or unwilling to (re)read your own nominations, please refrain from nominating books.

    Information on "thriller genre"

    Thriller section on amazon

    Some information on the books:

    Next Episode by Hubert Aquin

    Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

    The Eight by Katherine Neville

    The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

    Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

    The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

    The Ghost by Robert Harris

    The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

    Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko

    In the Heat of the Night by Ball
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  2. 11-01-2008, 06:46 PM #2
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    I nominate Hubert Aquin's Next Episode.

    http://www.amazon.ca/Next-Episode-Je.../dp/0771034717
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  3. 11-01-2008, 07:39 PM #3
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    Crime and Punishment.
    At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
    During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
    The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.

    To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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    The Eight - Katherine Neville
    Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

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  5. 11-01-2008, 08:10 PM #5
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    My nomination: The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

    The nominations so far:

    1. Next Episode by Hubert Aquin

    2. Crime and Punishment

    3. The Eight by Katherine Neville

    4. The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
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  6. 11-01-2008, 08:16 PM #6
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    Crime and Punishment isn't really a thriller I don't think. It would be somewhat against the purposes of this genre-selection if we just put books up because they are fantastic reads.

    That being said, one could perhaps argue Dostoevsky wrote thrillers, but I think it would be better not to, as they aren't really thrillers in the sense of other books, or of the genre in general.


    Though, to be honest I can't think of a better book than one of the posted ones, so I will abstain from nominating anything myself, since I have already seen a book up there I would like to read more than any other I can think of.
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  7. 11-02-2008, 12:16 AM #7
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    No, Crime and Punishment isn't a thriller, not in the modern sense of suspense, and knowledge withheld from the reader. Aside from being Dostoevsky's finest technical achievement, if one has to pigeonhole it, it is crime fiction. In 19th century terms, Gaskell's gothic stories come closest to today's thriller/suspense stories.

    I will not nominate either. I generally have a distaste for the genre, even when someone fine like Mankell engages in it; the formula is too familiar, and no American author I know of really attempts to challenge the seemingly necessary techiques, although I am kinder to, and even admire Dobyns. He started to get hot when I was active with my author-click in Speakeasy.

    Again, I am not nominating this title; read it and I am not keen on a second round, but he does try to offer the reader more to chew than King, and there are some interesting whiffs of McCarthyism being toyed with amid the course of the story arc.

    I don't mind if another member nominates it out of interest--but I will definitely absent myself from C & P.
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  8. 11-02-2008, 04:28 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    My nomination: The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

    That's one of the best books of my prereading era

    I was joking about C&P (mostly)...
    At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
    During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
    The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.

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  9. 11-02-2008, 06:30 AM #9
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    If is has plots that fit in the thriller genre, regardless of what era it was written in, well then i think it should stay. Alot of classics slot nicely into genres now, because there are genres now that they can slot into.
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  10. 11-02-2008, 11:50 AM #10
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    Defining the thriller genre

    What is a Thriller?
    The genre of Thriller is, for the most part, fairly uncontroversial, unless there is debate about the ability of a Thriller to also be Contemporary Literature. Thriller is an extremely broad genre, which encompasses written and televisual texts. Many sub-genres within the genre.

    A Thriller contains certain characteristics. The pace must be quick, there has to be a lot of action, and there should be suspense and plot twists aplenty. Thrillers should have the reader on the edge of their seat, wondering if the good guy can get one over the bad guy and save the world (even though it's extremely rare for the bad guy to win, in your classic Thriller).


    http://www.illiterarty.com/genre-thriller
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
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  11. 11-02-2008, 01:22 PM #11
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    I would like to nominate The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. Thanks.
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    - CRIME AND PUNISHMENT     (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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  12. 11-03-2008, 07:14 PM #12
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    Can i vote for Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier?
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats
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  13. 11-03-2008, 07:26 PM #13
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    Is there a definition for thriller? I'd like to nominate something but I don't what exactly is a thriller. Aren't almost all novels thrillers if you really think about it?
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  14. 11-03-2008, 07:29 PM #14
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    Scher has stuff up in the original post. I just went to amazon. A lot of the books on it i wouldnt class as a thriller.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats
    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

    my poems-please comment Forum Rules
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  15. 11-03-2008, 07:34 PM #15
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    I nominate Deception Point by Dan Brown
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