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Book Review of The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers
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Helpful Score: 3


Incredibly shocking ending! Too bad, though, for such a short novel (120 pages or so) you have to get through about 90 pages of boredom to reach it. You literally have to put up with pages and pages of two really boring people, Mary and Colin, wandering aimlessly around a European city (never identified) saying "I'm bored" and "I'm thirsty". Then a stranger, Robert, befriends them, and since Mary and Colin are such boring people, they never really stop to question this stranger's actions until it is too late.