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Original Title:	Strangers on a Train
ISBN:	0393321983 (ISBN13: 9780393321982)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Strangers-on-a-Train/
Characters:	Guy Haines, Charles Anthony Bruno, Anne Faulkner, Miriam Haines
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1951)

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The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. “Some people are better off dead,” Bruno remarks, “like your wife and my father, for instance.” As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

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Title	:	Strangers on a Train
Author	:	Patricia Highsmith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 281 pages
Published	:	August 28th 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 1950)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Classics. Thriller. Crime. Noir. Mystery Thriller

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3.5 stars. This was one of the rare cases where the movie was actually better than the book. The novel unfortunately had a few too many slow spots where the plot just dragged, but overall I did still enjoy the story and the characters.

Warning: Mild spoilers ahead.As I have said earlier, it is a dicey affair to one-star a classic on GR. Some people may see it as blasphemy: and maybe, one can expect a lynch mob. But what to do? I did not like this book: could not bring myself to finish it even; so one-star is the only option.My only acquaintance with Patricia Highsmith before this novel was The Terrapin, a terrifying short story. So I was pretty sure I would like this novel, even though the story was familiar to me from

Since I haven't seen this movie, I wasn't aware that this book was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film with the same title until after I finished reading this book. Published in 1950, this book is remarkable in the sense that it has a modern, contemporary tone. Guy Haines, the architect, and Charles Anthony Bruno, the wealthy shiftless wanderer, meet on the train and share personal details.From the blurb:Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns

This was Hightsmith's first novel and while the premise is fascinating, it's not nearly as tense or sophisticated as the later Ripley books (the 'Ripliad'). There are places where it's hard to understand characters' motivations (Guy and all that faffing around about accepting/refusing/accepting the commission). And the ending is clumsy.That said, it's easy to trace the elements that Highsmith worked up more richly in Ripley: questions of morality vs. amorality, the uneasy relationship between

A genius idea drowned in a soup of too many uninteresting characters. Most of the book could have been edited down to one taut, terrific short story.

Two men meet  on a train ride to Texas, worlds collide, and their lives  are changed forever.  Charles Bruno is a spoiled rich kid grown up now into a wealthy young man wanting more. The only path he can see to "more" is for his father to die. Bruno has never had a job and feels such a thing is not necessary for him.  He is a lazy, slovenly lush. Despicable.  Insane. And then some.Guy is the poor sap Bruno lays his murder  plot out on. Having learned that Guy is separated  from his wife, and

When Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno meet on a train, they discover they have one thing in common: each of them has someone they would be better off without. When Haines' estranged wife winds up strangled, he finds himself caught in Bruno's psychotic, alcoholic web...Yeah, that makes the book sound really gripping. It wasn't. The Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train is legendary so I thought I'd give the book that inspired it a shot. I would have been better off watching Throw Mama From the