LISA SCOTTOLINE On What Makes a Good Thriller

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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline walks viewers through the mystery & thriller section, sharing favorites, offering writing tips, and the offering a thoughtful history of the genre. A veritable classroom of information for readers and aspiring writers.

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  • @robschneider8310
    @robschneider83108 жыл бұрын

    I like this woman. Very articulate, clear, concise and enthusiastic.

  • @manniesreactionchannel3808

    @manniesreactionchannel3808

    7 жыл бұрын

    Arnaud Drouin you took the words, right out of my mouth.

  • @jeffreyc.mcandrew8911

    @jeffreyc.mcandrew8911

    6 жыл бұрын

    Strolling through the library. A lot there!

  • @lennarthagen3638

    @lennarthagen3638

    3 жыл бұрын

    She is very neat

  • @donreadsalot4932
    @donreadsalot49325 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video, very off-the-cuff, unrehearsed, and shows off Ms. Scottoline's awesome honesty and personality. Great job!

  • @paula65writer
    @paula65writer9 жыл бұрын

    Not only is Lisa a great writer, she's a great teacher. Great video, Lisa. Thank you.

  • @blessOTMA
    @blessOTMA6 жыл бұрын

    Terrific over view and a trip down memory lane too. Rosemont Borders! I remember you well!!

  • @jjkhawaiian
    @jjkhawaiian6 жыл бұрын

    What great walk-around. Thank you and thank her. Thriller is my writing, book/novel and movie genre.

  • @Sophiek2221
    @Sophiek22216 жыл бұрын

    This was great! I really like this person. I want to get into more Poe and Patterson. Love the thoughts, this was very interesting and eloquent.

  • @keithevans2722
    @keithevans27225 жыл бұрын

    Frederick Forsyth,good researcher and Master of espionage thriller......from England

  • @MindiRamseyMarketing
    @MindiRamseyMarketing13 жыл бұрын

    Lisa - thanks so much for posting this video. Ingenious to take us walking through the bookstore thriller section. :)

  • @manniesreactionchannel3808
    @manniesreactionchannel38086 жыл бұрын

    Im in the process of writing 4 books.... I am about half way done with it.

  • @manniesreactionchannel3808

    @manniesreactionchannel3808

    2 жыл бұрын

    @D Frazier not yet … but I’m almost done

  • @manniesreactionchannel3808

    @manniesreactionchannel3808

    2 жыл бұрын

    @D Frazier well thank you ! I will greatly appreciate it .. I’ll keep you post

  • @cathymcivor7457
    @cathymcivor74576 жыл бұрын

    I just went to a local used book store and bought 6 of her books!! Thanks for this video, Lisa.

  • @hectorvalle1031

    @hectorvalle1031

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm doing the same. Buying her books.

  • @manniesreactionchannel3808
    @manniesreactionchannel38084 жыл бұрын

    I definitely agree, i encourage people to write. Because it's definitely like a muscle, the more you use it. The stronger it gets.

  • @jadakowers4727
    @jadakowers47273 жыл бұрын

    Enjoyable and informative video. I wish she had mentioned Dame Agatha Christie and Walter Mosley.

  • @trickyplays240

    @trickyplays240

    Жыл бұрын

    Agatha Christie is more “cozy mystery”

  • @the16thGemini
    @the16thGemini Жыл бұрын

    Inspiration at 7:30 !!!!! Point well made 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

  • @wagstaffe7
    @wagstaffe75 жыл бұрын

    Wow.....thanks a lot! Do some more.

  • @mazumathefirst
    @mazumathefirst10 жыл бұрын

    Very good. Thanks.

  • @waxeye6488
    @waxeye64887 жыл бұрын

    Great talk.

  • @seanc9507
    @seanc95077 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @rudylabsilica2286
    @rudylabsilica22866 жыл бұрын

    OMG BORDERS! I miss that bookstore. :_(

  • @cathymcivor7457

    @cathymcivor7457

    6 жыл бұрын

    Rudy, remember the piano they used to have in Borders? I spent many hours in there just browsing at books and music.

  • @Mickey853
    @Mickey8536 жыл бұрын

    Are there any other videos like this one? Like with another author doing a book store tour?

  • @leafm1181
    @leafm11819 жыл бұрын

    you're the best

  • @joefpsunset
    @joefpsunset4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @stefanmarkov6775

    4 жыл бұрын

    Books-A-Million is far better!!!!

  • @joefpsunset

    @joefpsunset

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @trickyplays240

    @trickyplays240

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree Books-A-Million is better! Great for manga

  • @aaronying4989

    @aaronying4989

    Жыл бұрын

    Sadly I don’t think Borders is coming back but I agree it was much better than BN.

  • @andrewhallahan2758
    @andrewhallahan27583 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @andrewhallahan2758

    @andrewhallahan2758

    3 жыл бұрын

    And James Patterson is the king of one page chapters and second string writers who ghost his books.

  • @aaronying4989

    @aaronying4989

    Жыл бұрын

    I think she probably had to do that to appeal to the commercialism of those people and the popularity, yea I was surprised she passed by the others.

  • @davidenglish4628
    @davidenglish462811 жыл бұрын

    hey...lisa is the best...if you look on my website....davids book talk...you will hear an HOUR interview with her....she is so wonderful

  • @JEDIAL9
    @JEDIAL95 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jasonturno4823
    @jasonturno48238 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @piegirlie

    @piegirlie

    4 ай бұрын

    Connelly's Bosch, a former Nam tunnel rat mother -amurdered hooked, then, in later life...a reluctant PI...and Mickey Haller!!

  • @greg1483
    @greg14833 жыл бұрын

    Harlan Coben for me.

  • @LawrenceCaldwellAuthor
    @LawrenceCaldwellAuthor8 жыл бұрын

    Dan Brown? Right stuff? BAHAHAAA!

  • @despot666
    @despot6667 ай бұрын

    I miss Borders...

  • @BarrocoTarot
    @BarrocoTarot4 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @Matthew_Coton
    @Matthew_Coton2 жыл бұрын

    You missed one of my favorites John Sandford.

  • @atiashah4538
    @atiashah453810 жыл бұрын

    The more she talks about great authors the more I think I will never match up to them with my writing.

  • @EmpyreanLightASMR

    @EmpyreanLightASMR

    8 жыл бұрын

    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.)

  • @quentonupshaw4549

    @quentonupshaw4549

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@EmpyreanLightASMR Book snobs

  • @Nope-ec5yv
    @Nope-ec5yv4 жыл бұрын

    I miss Borders....

  • @maroloan3429
    @maroloan34294 жыл бұрын

    ALLAH bertindak menelamatkan kita hikmat ALLAH Hikmat manusia kenikmatan cinta tetapi tidak masuk kedalam sesuatu yang najis atau dusta berkali-kali hanya mereka yang masuk ke dalam kitab kehidupan anak domba

  • @harrybombardi7289
    @harrybombardi72898 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @paulnewman4624

    @paulnewman4624

    8 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @MickeyGreenEyes213
    @MickeyGreenEyes2133 жыл бұрын

    Gasp! How dare you pass up Tana French!

  • @trickyplays240
    @trickyplays2403 жыл бұрын

    You skip Mary Higgins Clark (RIP) … c’mon the queen of suspense and a well deserved title. Instead u suck up to Dan Brown.

  • @coreyoz
    @coreyoz3 жыл бұрын

    BORDERS? this IS from 200 years ago... lol

  • @josh2472010
    @josh24720109 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @barbaradempsey7065
    @barbaradempsey70654 жыл бұрын

    Good video, but please pronounce Gloucester correctly.

  • @Slattstudio
    @Slattstudio10 жыл бұрын

    Did you really say wikipedia is "wrong stuff" and Dan Brown is "right stuff"? Congrats on writing 16 books and all I did stop watching after that.

  • @IonxZone

    @IonxZone

    6 жыл бұрын

    God, me too. Dan Brown can't even get his street layouts right, never mind anything else.

  • @patcummings7533
    @patcummings75335 жыл бұрын

    I gave up on evanovitch after they all seemed to be the same, with the same love triangle over and over and over...

  • @Bhaleri
    @Bhaleri10 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @roger8654

    @roger8654

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bhaleri bad writer? Dan Brown is one of the most successful writers of all time.

  • @Bhaleri

    @Bhaleri

    7 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @stefanmarkov6775

    @stefanmarkov6775

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dan Brown wasted an entire library on his books...talk about self-serving/selfish

  • @classicalperformances8777
    @classicalperformances87772 жыл бұрын

    she lost me at " you have to read the DaVinci code"

  • @autofocus4556
    @autofocus45565 жыл бұрын

    But why do they all have the worst covers?

  • @wesleyrodgers886
    @wesleyrodgers8866 жыл бұрын

    Dan Brown!?. (stopped the video). Ugh!.

  • @barryispuzzled
    @barryispuzzled Жыл бұрын

    You sound like someone who needs a boyfriend! No marriage ring. :)

  • @stefanmarkov6775
    @stefanmarkov67754 жыл бұрын

    Lov Lisa Scottoline but liking Dan Brown?!?!?! He has an entire library of his books....self-serving and waste of space

  • @susanbettis4928
    @susanbettis49288 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @familycorvette
    @familycorvette Жыл бұрын

    You lost me at Dan Brown. Brown is a dense miasma of historical error and conspiracy nonsense.

  • @AnimeEmpress1
    @AnimeEmpress14 жыл бұрын

    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...

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