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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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last updated Jan 17, 2023 03:51PM
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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
Rachel, the narrator, is an alcoholic mess who had just reached my OMG-just-quit-whinging-already! threshold when the author wisely moved ...more
This was a fun read, and I was riveted for the second half to see what would happen when the culprit was confronted. Really though, I saw who it was from a mile away, and there were times when I thought Hawkins was putting up a neon billboard that said, "This is the culprit. RIGHT HERE." Other than that it was enjoyable and a very quick read.
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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.
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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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
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Meh... Frankly it was a bit of a tedious read.
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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
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
Apr 20, 2015
Missy
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May 06, 2015
Margaret
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Jul 17, 2017
Nicole Oswald
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