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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Start date: December 1, 2016

Finish date: December 31, 2016

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Aug 05, 2016 Misty Melsheimer rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

Is this novel without flaws? No. Do I care? No.

I’m a purposefully slow reader. I like to go back and reread passages that take on a new meaning as the plot unfolds. I reread sentences and paragraphs that I find lyrically charming, imaginatively descriptive. Books to me are like a summer teen romance: our relationship is short-lived, and so I want to draw it out and savor each morsel of it until its inevitable end. Not so with this book. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. It’s rare that a bo ...more

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Aug 31, 2015 Marie Nardin rated it really liked it

Not many books have kept me turning pages like this one did.

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Nov 04, 2016 Karen rated it liked it

Shelves: borrowed, gr-group-reads, 2016-authors-from-another-country, 2016-a-good-thriller-grp-chall, 2016-read, books-into-movies

Well written, but I didn't care for it at all. All of the characters were dreadful people, with no redeeming value. ...more

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Nov 08, 2016 Lauren rated it it was amazing

I generally stay away from books like this because I am not a fan of this type of genre but oh my word was it good! I want to see the movie so I had to read the book first because we all know the book is always better. Paula Hawkins does a marvelous job with showcasing on how horrible a character that person is to the growth shown in each character from the beginning to the end of this book. I liked the three perspectives and how they eventually intermingled with each other in ways that I did no ...more

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