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lr_14's review
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
camdelo96's review
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lilbrisket's review
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
A decent quick read that explores guilt, social contracts, and how time affect your life and relationships. A novel that at times acted as a quick vignettes into the main characters lives while leaving some relationships and minor characters development in need of a helping hand. Overall, would read again for its ability to be read in one night or one/two sittings. A book for when you need a break from other reading or life projects. Reads sort of of like a short play.
Content Warnings
Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship
carlaonion's review
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
kdferrin's review
4.0
At first I really didn't like the woman but the back and forth drama inside their heads really drew me in.
alexbooksandmore's review
2.0
A easy book to read. A bit confusing at the beginning and didn't have anything exciting to look forward.
veryperi22's review
5.0
I sometimes meet people that I recognize from a lifetime ago.
Often there are memories. Childhood spats. Fights. Words exchanged that would best be forgotten, but rarely are.
The memories aren't mentioned. They're not talked about. And I wonder, don't they remember? Or am I the only person in the universe who has the memory of an elephant?
***
The book is about two former lovers who happened to sit near each other on a train. Thirty years later, and the memories come rushing back to both, individually.
The chapters alternate between them, revealing their thoughts, and slowly we learn of their past and current lives, and the painful memories that exist between them.
The hurtful exchanges, the pain, mortification and regret that both relive, alone, highlight how differently humans experience the same event.
The book is surprisingly short, relative to its slow pace. But I guess the 6:41 isn't a very long train ride.
The book is riveting. Get a copy.
jaclynday's review
4.0
The 6:41 to Paris is a short book, but the kind of book that you don’t forget easily, can’t shake off right away. In it, two former lovers accidentally meet on a train and the narration follows each of their thoughts through the past and back into the present.
The characters are rich with longing, sadness, feeling. Seeing the other person sparks things about themselves that had left top of mind, but had never truly been left behind. As they stare at each other, awkwardly searching for what to do next, you feel the white-hot pain of recognition at how you (the reader) may conduct yourself in such a situation. The people in our past, more than anything else, remind us of both how little and how greatly we can change.
The characters are rich with longing, sadness, feeling. Seeing the other person sparks things about themselves that had left top of mind, but had never truly been left behind. As they stare at each other, awkwardly searching for what to do next, you feel the white-hot pain of recognition at how you (the reader) may conduct yourself in such a situation. The people in our past, more than anything else, remind us of both how little and how greatly we can change.