If you are thinking about reading this book, I highly recommend the audiobook. I believe I enjoyed listening to it more than I would have enjoyed reading it. The voices were well done.
I am listening right now. I am still in the first half. Everytime she picks up a drink I cringe
Just read it last week, really enjoyed it, very quick read. (started it on an amtrak trip - the girl on the train reading the girl on the train!)
I just got an email from Amazon recommending the book so when I saw this thread, I logged onto my online library to reserve the audio book. I am currently number 115 in line with 25 copies.
Do you use your local library? I borrow audiobooks from the library, it’s great
I just finished reading it. It was pretty good - kept me interested right up to the end.
I’ll be starting the audiobook by the end of the week, so I’ll be looking forward to hearing the reader as well the the story itself. Thanks.
I do not enjoy listening to books on tape, I prefer to read. That said, this might have been a good one. I just thought this book was decent. Certainly better than much of the Kindle first freebies that are rotting my brain. The cringe inducing factor was a bit relentless. I could see the ending coming a little sooner than I wanted. If I could do it again, I would wait until it is deeply discounted. I’m reading it aloud to someone (I’m a pretty good audiobook sub I’m told) and I did read ahead and finish, so I’m not that much looking forward to having to go over it again.
I read this book over the weekend. Good, not great. However, I have a client who SO related to Rachael, not having a child, drinking too much. I realized that for people who relate personally to one of the three women, the book will be meaningful in a different way than just a character sturdy and a thriller. I figure that is why it is on top of book list.
After reading the first third, I was ready to give up and decided to read the end. Once I’d done that, it interested me enough to go back and keep reading.
I don’t mind audio books, but I find that if the book is a “page turner,” I often end up buying the book so I can read it all the way through, which is wasteful financially. I do better with books that you don’t mind picking up only when driving or walking the dog or working out. For example, The Last Policeman was a bad choice for an audio book, but David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day was perfect for audio book -for me anyway.
I haven’t read this thread yet. Does it contain spoilers? If so, I won’t be back. Please let me know!!
^ not exactly spoilers but a few details. If you haven’t read it and don’t know what it is about, don’t read the thread yet. Mostly, people are discussing reading vs listening to audiobooks. Some thought this was a good choice for an audiobook.
I stopped buying fiction, after giving away 1/3 of my books. My library had many copies, all 7 day books. This was a page turner, so I finished in 2 days.
Borrowing an audiobook from the library is free
I love audiobooks, that said, a long complex book would be difficult to keep straight if you were unfamiliar, for example DH and I have listened to James Clavell books on drive trips, we stop every half hour or so to make sure he is still with it. A moment of extra attention to the road (!) has the listener losing details.
I really enjoy readers who do excellent accents, for example in the boosk Noble House/Tai Pan, there is British English, Scots, Hong Kong English, Pirate, American, Russian, Cantonese, and Mandarin, I assume he is accurate, the accents I know seemed correct & it is fun to hear the story unfold that way.
I do not prefer chick lit and think Girl on a Train is that, but the voices kept me following the story.
My favorite audiobooks are Clavell, Dean Koontz, and Stephen King.
@somemom, are those from the library in CD form? Those are good for the car, but can’t take them on the bike or the dog walk.
When I drove from Dallas to Durham, NC to visit D1 at grad school, I listened to a couple of audio books. A really good one for driving was Billy Crystal’s last book, Still Foolin’ 'Em: Where I’m Going, Where I’ve Been, and What the Hell Happened to My Keys?
@Nrdsb4 library audiobook downloads, I love them. If a book is popular, just go on the waitlist, one day you get an email to download it.
I did not think I would love the audiobooks, but I have discovered I love the when traveling, when exercising, when trying to sleep and not having much luck, etc.
^^^^Wow, guess I’ll have to check it out!
I read this as my “just before bed book” - which really means I make it through about 2 pages before falling asleep. Because of those short bursts I found it difficult to keep 3 characters straight. I suppose I would have better enjoyed the experience had I read it in a couple of seatings. Something about the way it was written bothered me…at times I felt like there was too much talking…almost as if I had turned on one of those cable talk news shows and the talking never stopped.