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The Girl on the Train
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"Blissfully happy and utterly wretched" (p 17 iBooks edition)I loved this line and thought immediately that she had had fertility issues. It sound just like want friends have said about the same.
I like Megan and Rachel so far. I feel for Rachel, and Megan - well I think this is so common - to drift, especially after the failed business. She has that in common wth Rachel, they feel worthless now. What's with Tom? I don't think telling Rachel that she is upsetting Anna will make much difference. I know I wouldn't care that much out the new wife, the ex maybe, but not the new wife.
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Oh boy, I need to read what I type before posting, or not post during a movie with the kiddos. What I meant to say, Rachel sounds like friends I've known with fertility issues.
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I'm still not sure how I feel about this book. I don't really like it - the characters are difficult, the plot hasn't really seemed to move along all that much, and I don't really care about what happens next. But with that said, I can't stop reading it. I almost missed my train stop yesterday because I was so engrossed in one of the police questioning scenes.
Hi guys, I found myself really connecting with Rachel a lot. Especially the trying to get through life. Also I have a hard time sometimes remembering who's who, like who's talking right now. I'm not used to these kinds of books, but I'm trying! also my copy is electronic and it doesn't show pages only percentages.
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Rachel just tugs at my heart. She is so broken, and so vulnerable, and Paula Hawkins has a beautiful way of describing her without it being maudlin. A sentence here and there and you are feeling what Rachel feels."...let's be honest: womon are still only valued for two things - their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless"
This defined her, for me, for the rest of the book. She can never fix this, she can't get away from it, it destroyed the her marriage, her friendships, She is alone in this so utterly.
I can't figure out what she thinks is so great about Tom? He seems awful, and she constantly talks about him as if she put him thru so much, that he deserves the world, and I just don't see what is so special about him.
Aria wrote: "Hi guys, I found myself really connecting with Rachel a lot. Especially the trying to get through life. Also I have a hard time sometimes remembering who's who, like who's talking right now. I'm no..."I'm reading it on my Kindle and it only has percentages instead of page numbers too. What I did was 100*(page number)/326 (the total number of pages in the book). That gives you the percentage, so once I was almost done with the Rachel chapter, I saw I was at 29% and stopped when the chapter was finished :)
I really like the writing style a lot, it kind of reminds me of how I wrote before I stopped... I guess it feels familiar and it's easy for me to read. I also really like this genre so there's that too haha. I like the plot so far because it's not giving much away at all, it's like Paula Hawkins wants us to be reliant on only her so she'll give us the information when she feels like it. I don't really like Rachel, though. I felt bad for her because Tom cheated on her because my boyfriend cheated on me too so there was some connection there, but then everything else just made me uncomfortable. I feel bad for her situation, but the fact she still calls Tom her husband to the police, she calls him still even after they've been divorced for 2 years, and she's been to his house maybe twice... That's downright obsessive, she needs a therapist like Megan. I guess I felt for Anna because my boyfriend's two exes text him sometimes and one of the two has called multiple times at night before and it really is annoying and kind of hard to deal with, especially when you don't want your SO to be nice but that's how they are. I don't know, maybe because I've had to deal with that, I understand it and can empathize with Anna, but at the same time she was with him while he was married to Rachel, which, because of my personal experiences, I feel is horrible, it's like both of them are kind of eh to me.
Megan is also a cheater which makes me like "What??" Why does everyone cheat and whoever isn't cheating has something else wrong with them ugh. But I like her more than Rachel because I connect more. I guess since it's all kind of a soft spot for me, I'm not enjoying the characters at all, but the writing and the plot are good and interesting enough for me to keep wanting to read. I think it's a pretty quick read too, which is nice since I haven't read since I got sick!
I haven't read the previous posts on this thread to avoid possible spoilers, but I just started this and it's promising!
