A review by covergirlbooks
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

2.0

The reader is a man who takes the same train to work each day, and on the way, he reads the remaining pages of destroyed books. The reader's first pages are dark and disturbing, but his voice is so captivating, even a page from a cookbook holds his listeners spellbound. Unexpected reading material finds him when he comes across a memory stick (flash drive) stuffed in his usual seat. The private writings of a bathroom attendant cast light into his depression. This book was an unexpected love story that seemed to start out with tinges of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 before the color crept in.

One of my friends from the U.K. wrote a review for this one, and I found that, despite the "international bestseller" emblazoned on the cover, it's pretty hard to find a copy here from a public library. I ended up ordering it online.