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Gone Girl is a book that will surprise you, keep you guessing and perhaps leave you feeling a bit unsettled at the end of it all. It's the story of Nick and Amy - two people with ordinary names who turn out to be anything but ordinary. This is a book where no one is who they seem, where every secret is a lie, where seemingly inconsequential details turn into major plot twists. Gone Girl is certainly a thriller - a very well done one.
We meet Nick and Amy on their fifth anniversary. They met in NY ...more
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Gah! I don't know whether I like or dislike this book. I felt very irritated and impatient for it to be over for much of the way through, and yet I did want to know how it would end enough to keep reading. I figured out the first big twist very early on, and one of the theories I had about the ending was close to the real one, so I wish there had been more surprises than there were. I was constantly aware that I was being manipulated by Flynn, which I don't like. If you want to mess with me, fin
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I had a hard time rating this book. If I were rating on writing quality it would be higher, but while I thought it was well written, I also hated it at the same time because there are just practically no characters that you like in this story, which is in itself a kudos to Gillian Flynn for creating such despicable people. Still, you find yourself compelled to stay the course to find out what happens in the end, which was definitely not what I expected. So in summary, a well written novel, that
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I was compelled along to finish this but found the characters completely lacking any redeeming qualities or anything that would endear them to the reader. I didn't feel sympathy or empathy for either of them and wasn't invested in how it would turn out for either - though I thought the ending was pretty terrible too.
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I didn't see what was coming and even at the very end, there was room for more surprises, which I find impressive. the whole thing was crazy - but the actual possibility of having to live life the way the final events indicated was real enough to leave me genuinely troubled.
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The star system is misleading. I hated this book. I hated these characters. But I couldn't stop reading it. It is either the worst thing ever written or the most clever.
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So disturbing -- yet incredibly absorbing and riveting. Loved it.
Review and rating to come after book discussion group
Effective thriller marred by at least two plot cracks.
Whoa, whoa....
Nov 15, 2013
Robin
marked it as to-read
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Sep 19, 2014
Christina
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