Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

14 reviews

catriona176's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.0

The beginning and the ending are alright, but the middle was quite tiresome. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Gun violence, and Miscarriage

xkwright's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I was familiar with the premise and expected a jaunty crime caper, but I ought to have known better coming from Highsmith. I would teach this in a literature class and have fun doing it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Murder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Miscarriage

treereadingabook's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Stalking, Sexism, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Sexism

Minor: Infidelity and Fatphobia

pandacolin's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Murder

Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Grief

Minor: Misogyny and Miscarriage

bookb1itch's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Murder, Death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Miscarriage

stateofhailey's review

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Gun violence, Stalking, Alcohol, Misogyny, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

celinomat's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Gun violence, Violence, and Death

Minor: Vomit

elizmoe's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

Minor: Racism, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

sibertooth's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is an astonishingly good novel: suspenseful, psychologically acute, queasily engaging, and full of surprises even for those who have seen the film already. (Granted, I had last seen it more than ten years earlier, so YMMV.)

Since comparisons with the more famous movie are inevitable, I will say that book!Bruno is a broader, more grotesque character, but also somehow more relatable. The narrative, especially when it's in Guy's POV, tends toward the philosophical but seldom gets slow; the book is a unified whole.

This is the first Patricia Highsmith I've ever read, and I'm really looking forward to her other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Alcohol, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Murder

Minor: Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Suicide, and Medical content

chrisljm's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

2.0

This should’ve just been a short story, but Sigmund Freud, you would’ve loved this shit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Fatphobia