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Saturday Afternoon
March 4th
Joe
I'm really excited my wife is reading, "The Girl on the train" and I just grabbed another copy from the library. Now we both can read it together. I texted her about it. I bet she is so excited right now. I can't wait till get home. I don't think we've ever read a book together and I'm sure well have a good time.
Saturday Evening
March 4th
Jeanine
Oh my God, Joe wants to read a book with me. Doesn't he understand. I read books to get away from here, from him, not to ...more
March 4th
Joe
I'm really excited my wife is reading, "The Girl on the train" and I just grabbed another copy from the library. Now we both can read it together. I texted her about it. I bet she is so excited right now. I can't wait till get home. I don't think we've ever read a book together and I'm sure well have a good time.
Saturday Evening
March 4th
Jeanine
Oh my God, Joe wants to read a book with me. Doesn't he understand. I read books to get away from here, from him, not to ...more
Perhaps in my old age I'm now becoming a book-snob. I can't understand the rants and raves about the book..."it's the next Gone Girl"..."it's edge of your seat thrilling". It's neither. It is just a plain run of the mill novel that wants to be more than it is...average at best.
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A few things were left unexplained which always annoys me. Why introduce them at all? I thought the first 3/4 of the book was kind of slow going and much of the same and then all of the sudden it rushed through everything in the last part. I liked the ending but thought it was way more hyped up than it needed to be. I wouldn't recommend.
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Jan 05, 2017
Dani (Dani Reviews Things)
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it was ok
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friend-recommendation,
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Despite a number of people telling me to read it sooner, I only read it eventually because of my university's book club. On the one hand, I'm glad I gave the book a try, given how it was so popular and also a genre outside of my comfort zone. On the other... I didn't enjoy it all that much. I didn't like any of the characters, and without a character to connect to, I found myself alternating between feeling deeply uncomfortable and quite honestly just spacing out.
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins was a suspenseful mystery set near London, England. Rachel is an alcoholic who lives in suburb of London with a old college friend. She rides the train every day because she doesn't want her room mate to know that she lost her job a few months earlier. During her rides on the train she observes a couple that lives near where she used to live with her ex-husband Tom, whom left her for his mistress Anna and had a daughter with her. The couple she observes in
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This book was an interesting read. It's told in three points of view--Rachel, Anna, and Megan. Rachel is the title character as best I can tell, and she is the link in the story among the other characters. When the story begins, she is struggling with alcoholism and depression and coping with her divorce that happened at least a year prior. Each day she rides the train into London and she basically spies on her old house and affectionately names one of the couples she sees each day who would hav
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Nov 12, 2016
Barbara Spencer
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Loved every word
WOW!!!!
If you can get the characters straight it's a good suspense novel
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Apr 07, 2015
Nicki
marked it as to-read
May 12, 2015
Lindsay
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Jun 03, 2015
Rachel
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Oct 26, 2015
Madison
marked it as to-read
Feb 21, 2016
Brianna
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