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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not done yet but i like the way the author uses alcoholism blackouts as the device for a murder mystery. Creative. Also the description of addiction is very realistic and believable. ( ) I resisted reading this book because of the hype surrounding it. But now I have. Am I glad I did? Hmm. Not sure. I raced through the first 300 pages, narrated by unreliable alcoholic Rachel, beautiful but unreliable Megan, and the nervy successor to Rachel as Tom's wife, Anna. I became interested in the way that their lives became involved with each other, these women who normally would have had no reason to know one other. But after that, my interest steadily waned as the plot became ever more unlikely, ever less credible. By the end, I really didn't believe in them at all, nor care what happened to them. But I suspect that you too will turn the pages if you read it, and will reach the end. A holiday read. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. I find myself going through books like I go through clean underwear. This book was no exception. It was a fast paced novel that kept me swiping (iPad) through the pages until the very end. However, I found this book to be predictable. although I played the guessing game throughout the novel, somewhere in the middle I figured out the killer. I've only seen the movie adaptation of Gone Girl, so I have nothing to compare The Girl on the Train to in regards of writing style. I didn't like any of the characters, but sympathized with their situations at different times throughout the story. All in all I felt that the women in the story were very weak, always seeking some sort of validation or approval from men. This book definitely isn't the next Gone Girl, but the story is very familiar and fans of Gone Girl will either love this one, or... well you know.
"...a building, inescapable tension that Hawkins handles superbly, nibbling away at Rachel’s memories until we, like our sardonic, bitterly honest narrator, aren’t really sure we want to know what happened at all." “The Girl on the Train” has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since “Gone Girl,” the book still entrenched on best-seller lists two and a half years after publication because nothing better has come along. “The Girl on the Train” has “Gone Girl”-type fun with unreliable spouses, too. Its author, Paula Hawkins, isn’t as clever or swift as Gillian Flynn, the author of “Gone Girl,” but she’s no slouch when it comes to trickery or malice. So “The Girl on the Train” is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership too Readers sometimes conflate the “likability” of characters with a compulsion to care about their fate, but with a protagonist so determined to behave illogically, self-destructively and frankly narcissistically (someone even refers to her as “Nancy Drew”), it’s tough to root for Rachel. She’s like the clueless heroine of a slasher film who opts to enter the decrepit, boarded-up house where all her friends have been murdered because she hears a mysterious sound through an upstairs window Has the adaptationIs an abridged version ofAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning, flashing past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stopping at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Their life, as she sees it, is perfect ... until she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but now everything is changed. Rachel goes to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? No library descriptions found. |
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