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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Start date: April 27, 2016

Finish date: April 29, 2016

Discussion: 2016 Challenge prompts

Why we're reading this: This is our June group read. Participation is optional. If you haven't read this book or satisfied the pr…more
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A book with a protagonist who has your occupation...
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Dec 16, 2015 gremlinkitten rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-loan, mystery-suspense-thriller, unreliable-narrators

Wow, I really didn't expect to like this book that much. I had recently read Gone Girl, which this isn't that similar other than it features twisted, damaged people, but was looking for something that felt close to the same. I was almost sorry that I decided to pick this up as I literally could not put it down and ended up staying up past my bedtime yesterday.

Rachel, the narrator, is an alcoholic mess who had just reached my OMG-just-quit-whinging-already! threshold when the author wisely moved ...more

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Feb 23, 2015 Tori rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015, europe, 1read-in-my-40s

This is going to make a great movie! I love books like this that are narrated by a few of the characters instead of just one.

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Jun 28, 2015 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, thriller, england

I read this in about a day and a half, which I think says something about the pacing and stickiness of the narrative. The girl on the train is Rachel, and she is an alcoholic who has lost her job in London but still take the train everyday to keep up pretenses to her roommate. Rachel isn't just an alcoholic, but she is completely unstable from a destroyed marriage. So when the crime occurs, Rachel can't put the pieces together. Does she know something? What has she seen from the train?
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Dec 08, 2016 Angie rated it really liked it

I'm leaning toward 4 stars since this definitely kept my attention and I read late into the night. But the story telling format (chapters told from different character perspectives, bouncing forward and backward on the timeline, etc) was annoying for about the first 1/3 of the book until I finally got in the rhythm of the book. And I had the mystery figured out with about 1/3 of the book remaining, so it was a tad anticlimatic overall. Still, it was a pretty twisted story with some interesting c ...more

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Apr 14, 2015 Adrienne rated it liked it

Meh... Frankly it was a bit of a tedious read.

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May 08, 2015 Gayle rated it really liked it

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4 stars for sheer entertainment factor. Talked about screwed up people! The people in this book show me that I have my sh*t together; everybody in this book is a mess. Everyone of them. And although I can't say I liked any of them very much, I can say the story kept me turning and turning. At some point thru this book, every character was my main suspect, but I really didn't put it together till it came together in the book. ...more

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