Oliver’s Reviews > Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories > Status Update

Strangers on a Train: Powerful stuff! The twisted inner monologues reminded me a lot of both Stephen King and E.A. Poe, where the latter seemed to have quite the influence on the depiction of the second murder. It did go on for way longer than I expected though: The tension just kept rising until I got almost numb to it which made the point where the story ended feel kind of arbitrary. Maybe that was the point? 4.5/5