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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Start date: July 5, 2015

Finish date: July 12, 2015

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Sep 30, 2015 Sim Carter rated it it was amazing

Shelves: film, books-made-into-movies, contemporary-fiction

I learned about the new best seller everybody's calling the new Gone Girl a few weeks back. After reading the freebie sample of Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train on my Nook, I really wanted to get my hands on an actual hard copy of the page turner, so I could, you know, turn the pages. But the book was just published January 13th so it's still in hardback and at $23 has been flying off the shelves, selling like hotcakes, number one with a bullet on the New York Times Bestseller List, so I deci ...more

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Jun 10, 2015 Sim Carter rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: screen-adaptations

I learned about the best seller everybody's calling the new Gone Girl this past February. After reading the freebie sample of Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train, I really wanted to get my hands on an actual hard copy of the page turner, so I could, you know, turn the pages. But the book was just published January 13th so it's still in hardback and at $23 has been flying off the shelves, selling like hotcakes, number one with a bullet on the New York Times Bestseller List, so I decided to downlo ...more

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Dec 17, 2015 Valerie rated it liked it

Shelves: thiller, mystery, fiction, contemporary, prize-winner, suspense, adult-fiction, val-s-around-the-year-in-52-books, week-3

The structure of this book was very interesting. Three women telling their stories about the disappearance of one of them. While the dates at the beginning of each woman's chapter were supposed to help, they only confused me until the very end. My attention was held until the end. Only after I begin to type my review did I realize that I should have known "who done it "for quite a while. All three women were a bit flawed: one an alcoholic, one a lost child, and one a "nymphomaniac?." Principally ...more

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Oct 13, 2016 ktouton rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit

This book wants to be "Gone Girl." I didn't like "Gone Girl" and I am not sure why I thought I would like this one. I cannot figure out how or why this book became a movie.

This book was meant to be a psychological murder-mystery type book. I thought it wasn't even entertaining.

I could not recommend this book to anyone. ...more

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Oct 01, 2015 Mandy rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2015-challenge

Book that scares you

This was an audio book read, that definitely didn't scare me. This book was popular, but I didn't like it. I really disliked the main character and her drinking habit. ...more

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