Reading recommendations?

[stillsostrange]

Can anyone recommend any good thrillers? Ones that thrill, preferably? Pacing is my big thing to kick right now, and I'd like to see how other people produce page-turniness.

They don't have to be "thrillers", I suppose, as long as they do in fact thrill.

Any suggestions?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Did you find the subject matter to be the awful part? Because for me it was the prose, to the point where I could not read past the prolog of The DaVinci Code. Even that made me shriek an average of five times a page, I think.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Reply to you and Sosostris both: Actually the subject matter of the books didn't bother me at all. But there was so much talk about it, and I wasn't hearing anything about the prose (obviously I wasn't listening enough), that I thought there must've been something good about the text that I was simply missing. I need to trust my instincts more. :)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Not so much shrieking for me as winces and giggling. That was some bad prose. You didn't even make it to the manly dimple.