The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Great novel by great authors. The duo are very good at narration and can create a scene very realistically in front of the readers. The Relic is a very engrossing read and even scary at times. The story revolves around some inhuman killings in US Museum of Natural History, by a killer unknown. It lurks somewhere in the alleys and cul de sacs of the museum. The whole story then traces to a failed expedition (all dead) of some scientists to recover some old artifacts. Suddenly everyone seems to recognize that the enemy is something extremely sinister and ruthless that thought earlier.
An edge of the seat thriller.
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Best Thriller Novels
1984 by George Orwell
This one is a classic. I am ashamed of calling it a thriller, but I can't help it. It gave me the creeps...
It was story written in 1947, in the post world war era. It was quite a gloomy world then -- the constant fear of sinister fascism and nazism, degeneration of communism into a stifling and ruthless force, the apprenhension of imminent wars between world powers etc. looming large over it. 1984 shows us what would have happened if all those fears would have come true.
The world in 1984 is a world controlled by three powers -- Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The main protagonist Winston Smith belongs to Oceania. Oceania has a corrupt fascist government controlled by leader called Big Brother. No one knows who Big Brother is, whether he is alive or not, nut all they know is that Big Brother means power. The govt is a group of people which has control over the common man. Personal life doesn't exist because everything is constantly monitored. Love is a sin. Children implicate parents. Literature is gone. All that is left is madness, jingoism and ruthlessness. Everything is an illusion . People can vanished by the govt and all records of their existence can be effaced.
Winston Smith slowly finds life and a love. And then he starts questioning all he had been made to believe. He joins a rebel group and gets into it deeper and deeper, till he finds out that it was a conspiracy itself. A very thought provoking and pathetic end awaited him.
This shold be one of the most important books you will ever read in your life... And suddenly you will find that you live in a really safe world as compared to people in North Korea, Germany of past.
This one is a classic. I am ashamed of calling it a thriller, but I can't help it. It gave me the creeps...
It was story written in 1947, in the post world war era. It was quite a gloomy world then -- the constant fear of sinister fascism and nazism, degeneration of communism into a stifling and ruthless force, the apprenhension of imminent wars between world powers etc. looming large over it. 1984 shows us what would have happened if all those fears would have come true.
The world in 1984 is a world controlled by three powers -- Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The main protagonist Winston Smith belongs to Oceania. Oceania has a corrupt fascist government controlled by leader called Big Brother. No one knows who Big Brother is, whether he is alive or not, nut all they know is that Big Brother means power. The govt is a group of people which has control over the common man. Personal life doesn't exist because everything is constantly monitored. Love is a sin. Children implicate parents. Literature is gone. All that is left is madness, jingoism and ruthlessness. Everything is an illusion . People can vanished by the govt and all records of their existence can be effaced.
Winston Smith slowly finds life and a love. And then he starts questioning all he had been made to believe. He joins a rebel group and gets into it deeper and deeper, till he finds out that it was a conspiracy itself. A very thought provoking and pathetic end awaited him.
This shold be one of the most important books you will ever read in your life... And suddenly you will find that you live in a really safe world as compared to people in North Korea, Germany of past.
Best Thriller Novels
PHANTOMS by Dean Koontz
Now that is what I call a great sci-fi cum horror novel.
The town Snowfield is in the grips of a deadly and extremely evil force. It has become a graveyard, with the evil force waiting eagerly for preys unfortunate enough to set their foot in the town. Two sisters come into the town -- only to find an eerie silence in the streets -- the silence of death. Then -- the action starts with a bang! Police force comes in, army comes in, UFO specialists and pathologists come in -- all having their own theories of the ghastly killings. But everyone starts getting wiped out one by one. They don't know what lurks in the underground of the city -- something extremely sinister, something very cunning, something which they can never beat. It's a race against time and an edge of a seat thriller. Darkness was never more scarier. I slept with my lights on and with a constant look at my windows...
Extremely good read!!!
Now that is what I call a great sci-fi cum horror novel.
The town Snowfield is in the grips of a deadly and extremely evil force. It has become a graveyard, with the evil force waiting eagerly for preys unfortunate enough to set their foot in the town. Two sisters come into the town -- only to find an eerie silence in the streets -- the silence of death. Then -- the action starts with a bang! Police force comes in, army comes in, UFO specialists and pathologists come in -- all having their own theories of the ghastly killings. But everyone starts getting wiped out one by one. They don't know what lurks in the underground of the city -- something extremely sinister, something very cunning, something which they can never beat. It's a race against time and an edge of a seat thriller. Darkness was never more scarier. I slept with my lights on and with a constant look at my windows...
Extremely good read!!!
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