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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I was given this book for free for my honest review. I loved how intense the book was it kept you on the edge of your seat because you truly didn’t know if the main character was crazy or if she saw what she said she saw. I was gripping my seat the entire time. ( ) Wow, this book really does deserve to be on the best seller list for as long as it has been. Gripping, and it just kept me guessing until the very end. Would have never guessed. I so couldn't put it down! Cleverly put together thriller. Slow start as you get to know the players. Characters built up as the story progresses. Three women narrators. Having just read a meatier biography, I found it only mildly satisfying. A very unsettling and suspenseful story. Written in first-person from the point of view of three female characters, all unreliable narrators, the reader is never certain what is fact and what is a made up. The three men they interact with are also not very reliable. By the middle of the book, it's clear that everyone is a psychological mess and anyone could be responsible for the unfortunate event. In that way, the comparisons with [b:Gone Girl|21480930|Gone Girl|Gillian Flynn|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1432019852s/21480930.jpg|13306276] could be fair (I've only seen the film). But thankfully, this book has a completely different twist. Ultimately, this is a familiar tale. It's just told in a compelling way. This is what happens when I read something just because a bazillion other people read it and gushed about it. That said, I think as a movie it could work, slogging through it as a book did not work for me. Guess I'll have to watch the movie and see how it is.
"...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 adaptationAwardsDistinctionsNotable 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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