Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal’s David Benoit reported on the unlikely success of a two-year-old psychological thriller by A.J. One more point in their favor: it’s hard to buy the wrong book when you’re actually holding it in your hands.Īs it turns out, shopping online can lead to confusion, and it can even keep readers from the girl-and-train-themed novels they crave.
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Hawkins, whose novel currently is outpacing Flynn’s at the same point in its publication run (though the Train tie-in edition is benefiting from a seven-month shorter book-to-movie window) hastens to add that she’s a big fan of Gone Girl, both the book and the film. I know it should be ‘The Woman on the Train,’ but it didn’t scan.” “I do bristle at people saying, ‘Oh, you slap “girl” on the front cover of the book and you have a best-seller,’ and I just think, ‘No, it doesn’t really work that way, I’m afraid.’ The Girl on the Train was a working title that never got changed, and it’s a good title.
One link Hawkins dismisses out of hand is the suggestion that she somehow was latching on to Gone‘s success when coming up with her own novel’s title. “Amy is deliberately unreliable, while Rachel is accidentally unreliable because she got so pissed drunk.” “Amy Dunne is a psychopath, an incredibly controlling and manipulative, smart, cunning woman - and Rachel’s just a mess who can’t do anything right,” she says. And both books rely on a tough-as-nails female detective (Kim Dickens in Gone, Allison Janney in Train) to get to the bottom of their equally dark and complicated mysteries.įor Hawkins, the similarities may run wide, but they aren’t very deep. Hawkins and Flynn each use a missing woman and a suspect husband to drive the plot forward - main characters in Gone, side characters in Train. Both Train‘s Rachel Watson and Gone‘s Amy Dunne are unlikable, unreliable narrators, and both novels explore the theme of evil lurking in manicured suburbia. And the two monster best-sellers - Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl - share more than just their eponymous protagonists. Yes, they both have the world “girl” in the title, so naturally, comparisons will be drawn.
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