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The Woman in the Window: The hottest new release thriller of 2018 and a No. 1 New York Times bestseller

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I suppose I did recently say it would be a long time before I read another book with "Girl" in the title.

The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window Drags Its Long Title Through an Uninspired Season | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert". J. Finn (real name: Dan Mallory), the film adaptation has been plagued with challenges since its genesis, from reshoots and release-date pushbacks to a move from theaters to Netflix.The actual violence is less important (or interesting) -- and comes later in the story -- than the palpable sense of menace and the uncertainty of who presents what threat. Okay, I really don't want to misrepresent this book: The Woman in the Window is a pulpy, fast-paced popcorn thriller. We’re firmly in airport potboiler territory, with a going-through-the-motions mystery patchworked from superior sources, but the high-end treatment it’s given suggests there’s something more than soulless mechanics at its centre (spoiler: there isn’t). At my first reading I gave five stars and now I dropped it to 4 because becoming long time thriller reader make you cocky and tough grader and of course when you read so many amazing thriller stories (I weekly consume at least 5 of them!

When Anna finally ventures outside and her mental state spirals out of control, we’re right in that terrifying spiral with her.

She used to have her life together—marriage, family, career—but 11 months ago, a trauma left her with agoraphobia, so she's been unable to step outside of her New York City home all this time.

What I hope people will take away from this is a sense that our own fears can incarcerate us," the filmmaker added. When the Russells move in across the street, she diverts her attention to their troubles, played out in their living room for all to see. The Woman in the Window suffers from the usual domestic thriller malady: an intriguing premise and a strong start that never quite materializes into a satisfying narrative. But, it kept reminding me of this classic scene from the movie Airplane because I wanted to reach into the book, grab her shoulders, and shake her yelling, "CALM DOWN! for a debut, it’s very impressive - the claustrophobia of trauma-based imprisonment is palpable, and the narrator’s love of classic films adds to the fraught atmosphere where references and scraps of dialogue blur the real/fantasy line from the constant background presence of something hitchcockian flickering on her laptop.Its one I wouldn’t have picked up on my own without it being an option in BOTM club, and I’m so glad it was! a b c d "Similarities in 2 Novels Raise Questions About the Limits of Literary Influence (Published 2019)". And then one night, as she watches through their windows, Anna sees something her eyes cannot believe. It’s taken root, a poison tree; it’s grown, fanning out, vines winding round my gut, my lungs, my heart. I'm really torn on this one, because on one hand I was able to see all the twists coming (see Karen Brissette's review for my similar feelings on this), and it was a long book to feel entirely predictable, but on the other it was still a fun, enjoyable novel and I whole heartedly embraced the inclusion of the black and white movies and Alfred Hitchcock favorites that I grew up on.

But when filming wrapped back in 2018, test audiences were unimpressed and the disgraced producer Scott Rudin (see, cursed) hired the professional fixer Tony Gilroy (who also came on late to help Rogue One) to handle reshoots.Here she’s unable to lift material that sorely needs a star turn to make it work (see Emily Blunt’s strenuous carrying of The Girl on the Train a few years back) and instead, it’s two small roles that stick out. I’m not the most prolific reader when it comes to thrillers, but The Woman In The Window is one of my favorites that I have ever read. The film’s plot is a bit dense on the mystery, though that’s expected, considering the book it’s adaptating.

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