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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW MADE ME DO IT
The New York Times review called this book "Hitchcockian". That's the kind of praise that must be used sparingly, not squandered on something as thinly-plotted and tedious as "The Girl on the Train." Here's the story, what there is of one, but SPOILER ALERT: a black-out drunk who witnessed a murder remembers vague and useless details at an excruciatingly slow pace, until the end, when it all conveniently comes back in a rush and she solves the murder and the killer makes the obligatory long-winded confession right before he gets what's coming to him. Skip this. Read Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on a Train." It actually is Hitchcockian. In fact, it's better than the movie.
