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I know that most of you don't usually read thrillers(myself included) because they can be formulaic. What are some examples of quality thrillers?

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The Da Vinci Code.

>> No.1197880

James Ellroy's Dudley Smith trilogy: the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. American Tabloid is also excellent, but I can only cautiously recommend the sequel The Cold Six-Thousand because it's seven-hundred pages of four to five word sentences.

I'd also recommend 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa though it is a manga.

>> No.1198191

>>1197880

That is probably my favorite manga.

>> No.1198280

>>1198191
I'm really tired and I just got home from a long trip so at first I thought you were calling The Secret History a manga and then I was like, "holy shit."

>> No.1198283

The Secret History is probably the best homoerotic novel about pompous, emo pretty boy rich white kids that I have ever read.

>> No.1198296

BUNNY CORCORAN FUCK YEAH.

>> No.1198687

The Secret History made me want to become a rich, pretentious classics major. Yes i know that is not what they majored in.