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Gillian Flynn,

Óscar Palmer Yáñez (Translator)

Start date: September 1, 2018

Finish date: September 30, 2018

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Aug 03, 2016 Jessy rated it really liked it

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fue un excelente libro, pero el final no me gustó para nada... con un libro con tantos giros, me esperaba algo menos normal y un poco de Justicia también

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Oct 14, 2024 Naomi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Zorra psicópata.

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Sep 30, 2015 Juls Hernández rated it really liked it

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Ni siquiera puedo describir las emociones que me dejó este libro. Miedo? Incertidumbre? Asombro? Sólo estoy segura de una cosa: no quisiera, ni le deseo a alguien, relacionarse con alguien como Amy y Nick. ...more

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Mar 11, 2015 Ferni rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. There is a warning for all readers when it comes the time to read a book that has been adapted into a movie: "read. The. Book. First". I ignored that label, because it was stupid and I forgot this story was, in the beginning, a book. When I watched the movie, I was awe-struck. It was /amazing/, so interesting, with cool shots, nice story, /nice/ characters and actors (gee, Ben Affleck, you nailed it). I loved the movie, but at the middle I realized I kinda knew where it was going.
After three hou There is a warning for all readers when it comes the time to read a book that has been adapted into a movie: "read. The. Book. First". I ignored that label, because it was stupid and I forgot this story was, in the beginning, a book. When I watched the movie, I was awe-struck. It was /amazing/, so interesting, with cool shots, nice story, /nice/ characters and actors (gee, Ben Affleck, you nailed it). I loved the movie, but at the middle I realized I kinda knew where it was going.
After three hours of the movie, I decided I wanted to know the book, I wanted to know how faithful and how good the book could be. And man, I was not disappointed.

The way I read the book is far from good. There is kind of that sense of knowing what's going to happen, of not "enjoying" the twists and turns because you already know it, but I always assumed I had the "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" Syndrome, where knowing what is going to happen doesn't affect you as long as the way is delivered is good. This is a god damn long book, I actually thought that it would take me a week or so of reading and switching between school and everything. It didn't last to five days. I couldn't stop. I knew where everything was going but I was so bewitched...

I didn't properly liked the first part, for many reasons I can say that Nick Dunne is, in fact, an asshole. Not the kind of asshole who does asshole things, but more like the asshole character you have to endure in order to progress in the story. He is very dense for someone in his situation and, even if he claims to "know" the way he should react, he simply doesn't which makes him loke even less sympathetic and more like a guilty man who feels no remorse. He is completely not genre savvy. The way the story is delivered makes you think that he is in fact the killer! Every single one of his chapters is writen in such a way you actually, like Go, wonder if this man killed his wife and if he didn't, how can he be so cool and calm and collected...

But I loathed Diary!Amy, I loathed her because I knew and I felt how she was faking. Is not only because I watched the movie first and I knew what was going on, mind you. It was mostly that sense of reading a fake character (as fake as it can get). With things brought out of books, trying to have empathy with a character that is really not a nice character, something is off about this character. Something is not right here.

That's when you realized yo kinda actually like Nick. You understand a little of what is going on; you're only seeing what your eyes want to see and you are kind of making assumptions around Amy. She is this, she is that, she must have been this way... but it all rubbs in the worng way. Amy is /nothing/. She is not the Amazing Amy, nor Diary!Amy or Cool Girl!Amy. Amy is a no one, a sociopathic chamaleon that adapts herself into the circunstances.

I loved when I reached the second part. I actually told my friend: finally I can see the true Amy, and I like her better. Finally we can stop pretending to be a nice character and a normal reader. We are not. We, just like them, are as sick as Amy and Nick and we are god damned bewitched by their relationship. I just loved the cynical deliver. I was haunted by this city rich girl, that is a complete sociopath in the same way I was haunted by Francis Underwood. You know there is something wrong with them, you know you should despise them. You feel in your bones the need to simply reject them and to tell the world they are bad people and they sould be punished.

But then you're not. You see, there is this morbid fascination with Amy Elliot Dunne; you despise what she is doing, you think she is way over the top, and she is in fact. She thinks of herself as some kind of Greek God. She is cruel, she is mean, she is sexual, she is full of herself. She has the oh-so-called only child syndrome. She is a little Napoleon. She is Zeus and Hera and Aphrodite and Ares. She is a control freak, she is always right, she is always looking at the future and planning each step ahead of everyone. She. Is. The. Amazing. Amy. But she is not. She is flawed, just like her husband. Only that she is willing to kill, to destroy, to crash and burn everything around her just to get what she wants, because, as the book says: she has the last word. Always.

For me, this is a true love story. Is the complex side of two sick minds that end up together against all things. Two minds that are nothing without the other, because they get the best and the worst of the other. If I told this to anyone, they would think I am crazy, but at the end you can see it, just as Nick sees it: there is no one but Amy for him because he is sick in the same way that she is. Unstable people get with unstable people, just that Amy is a little bit odd. More than him, at least. She does what he can't bring himself to do. Both want to run away from their responsabilities, both of them want to play pretend, to be the one with the last word... love is war, it truly is.

Is an easy reading. It doesn't get too dense and the pacing is quick, is weird that you get stucked in some place, and usually this kind of stories would have took a little more of time, just by thinking in the circumstances of everything. It takes her almost two months to make her "heel face turn", it takes it's time and still the story keeps moving, to know more about Amy Elliot Dunne and her twisted psycothic mind. Because, let me tell you, this is her story and we, like Nick, can't run from her, no matter how far or how fast. ...more

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