Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

Taschenbuch
3.54

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Beschreibung

"Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." ―Paula Hawkins Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.
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I picked this up because I really like the Hitchcock movie when I watched it some time ago. I don't know how different it is, maybe it just worked better as a film, but this just wasn't that engaging for me. I liked the psychological aspects and enjoyed Bruno's POV because of what a mental case he was, the overal story is pretty interesting, however the book was too tense for me. It didn't feel tense in a way that it is really suspenseful and I really felt for Guy (he was kinda too bland) but in an irritating way. I wish there was more to Guy. I get that he is an every man which we should relate to, but that rarely worked for me. More of this book was about his relationship to Ann than about really exploring his struggle, which can be interesting, too, but not what I like most. I also felt that some important scenes just didn't feel like they had the weight to them they were supposed to have. Objectively, this is better than 2 stars, but it failed to move me in any way. It's a good story, but unfortunately not told in a way that I enjoy.

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