"Strangers On A Train" by Patricia Highsmith is the book we studied at book club this month. This is Highsmith's first novel. She wrote it in the early 1950. A couple years later Hitchcock made it into a movie thrusting her into stardom. The movie and book tell two almost completely different stories but both talk about two strangers, Guy (left) and Bruno (right) who meet on a train. Both strangers have a few screws loose. Bruno's problems are obvious from the start because he proposes at their first meeting that they help each other by committing murder. Guy humors him, not believing he was serious. Later, after Guys's wife is killed and Bruno expects Guy to kill his father, does Guy report Bruno to the police? No - that would not make for a best selling book and movie. Guy's response to Bruno's badgering is how we learn he too has a few screws loose. This is a good book; a psychological thriller.
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