What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The story is great for curling up in your favorite chair and reading straight through. The author grips the reader by the neck and tightens her grip until you feel suffocating and unable to stop.
The plot is realistic and blends the wantsand needs of its main characters. It is hard to explain, but the dialogue somehow has you cheering on the antagonist.
Guy haines is separated from his wife miriam. Bruno pressures and threatens guy to come through with his own side of the deal and kill bruno’s father. Guy is everything bruno isn’t — a successful professional, and, as it turns out, successful in love ... Read More
Strangers on a train was written in 1950 by patricia highsmith. Highsmith is especially good at portraying the inner psychological torment of a man sliding into moral corruption. This setting and storyline is perfect for hitchcock, so it's easy to und... Read More
Guy is a successful architect who was cheated on by his first wife over and over again. He hates his father because he has made his life and that of his mother miserable.
Cons
Southern gothic bore. Suspenseful but sick. And there was very little drama, and hardly no * to speak of.
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Quality
I received it within the timeframe and the quality was excellent
I highly recommend this book along with the talented mr
The other guy was a gay man portrayed as obsessed with the first guy
I started with the ripliad and saved strangers until now much like eating dessert before the entree
Packaging/appearance
If only his father were out of the picture if only somehow someway he could be rid of this horror of a man
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The interaction between the two men ebbs and flows
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Im a fan of mysteries but this is less a mystery than an exploration of the limits of human morality
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I found the book hard to get into at first train travel and slow plane flights are so different from our current mode of transportation they seem archaic and unrelatable and highsmith draws out the scenes between bruno and haines so long that they become tiring and unrealistic
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The pace picks up as the novel moves along but the grim foreboding of what will happen next never lifts up the typical noir fog of gloom and doom
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Im not sorry i read the book highsmith is famous for a reason after all and every serious reader needs to explore at least one of her books but i did not enjoy the read at all
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Somewhat of a cipher with little backbone and enjoying the comforts of his wellpaying architect job guy haines meets the psycho charles anthony bruno on a train
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Iladvisably guy discloses his troubled marriage to bruno who in turn plants the seed of a double murder i’ll murder your estranged wife and you murder my father
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The book was made into a movie by alfred hitchcock who however took some liberties with the plot
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