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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a real page-turner for me. Everybody in this book is kind of awful, and the way the story spun out, some of it was predictable, but really well told, and I kept on wanting to know what the next twist was going to be. ( ) 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. This one makes you anxious and worried and scared all at the same time, until the end when you realize what is going on. Then it becomes a matter of "I should have seen that." What makes you anxious is that the protagonist is not the best of people, yet she wants to be, and that causes more problems than if she just left things alone. Except, it doesn't. Read it. Do it in one setting. See the full review and more at MyBookJoy.com! Recommended: eh For those who don't read many mysteries, for a slow-burn psychological drama, for a story you can read once and be done with forever after Thoughts: I finally got around to reading this book. And since I remember years ago that there was a lot of excitement around this book, including it being a Goodreads Choice winner (2015 I believe), and there was also a movie adaptation, I had really high expectations. Maybe that was part of it's downfall for me, really. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it while I was reading it and was usually interested to see what happened next. I wanted to know the answer to the mystery. I had my own suspicions and was really angling for a specific outcome that I thought would have been worthy of the intensity of hype around the book. Each character intrigued me in their own way, and the snippets I got from Anna and Megan drew me in each time. I didn't dislike any of them, and was never disappointed when it switched perspectives. What left me feeling lukewarm is that overall, my compulsion to read this was still fairly tepid. It didn't truly grip me in the way that I want from a psychological mystery thriller kind of story. There were some unexpected plot elements thrown in that were a delicious surprise, but there were also some opportunities that I felt were missed out on. There isn't a lot of actual action within the story, as it focuses on interpersonal questioning and scheming. Now that I've finished it, I feel like I will probably not think of it much ever again. In the end, the ending was decent and the weave of the three central women's lives was concluded well, if not exactly tidily. There's still some open-endedness to the story, as what happened would mess everyone up mentally for sure. The openness appeals to me, as I can further imagine what would happen with the characters after the final page. But still - overall, I find myself longing for something closer to [b:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd|16328|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)|Agatha Christie|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389734015l/16328._SY75_.jpg|1073110].
"...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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