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Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

men will literally kill a stranger’s wife and then stalk the stranger until he has no choice but to commit murder too and then be super fucking weird about it until they’re both either dead or arrested, instead of going to therapy

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i mostly read this as a precursor to Carol/The Price of Salt in an attempt to understand Highsmith as a writer before I (finally) read the seminal twentieth century lesbian novel.

This book feels like something i would have read in AP Lit and then argued about a lot with my teacher. 

I also learned that maybe I like the idea of noir more than I like it in practice, and that perhaps this novel really isn’t for me.

Last but certainly not least, Bruno being clearly gay in the most unflattering and downright disturbing way possible really put me off this book. 

much more to unpack in this novel, but i don’t think i want to!
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