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This book is seriously fucked up, and I loved every page of it. It might take me a few days to manage a better review.
A newspaper journalist who cuts herself (no spoiler, really) returns to her close-minded hometown to cover an assignment involving two murdered girls to whom something really odd has been done. She unwillingly lodges with her crazy mother, and tries to dodge, but is drawn into the world of her equally unstable sister.
This is just the sort of dysfunctional fairy-tale I like sinking my teeth (heh) into but here it all falls a bit flat because the protagonist is a really unlikeable, self-destructiv ...more
This is just the sort of dysfunctional fairy-tale I like sinking my teeth (heh) into but here it all falls a bit flat because the protagonist is a really unlikeable, self-destructiv ...more
It's safe to say I'm not interested to watch a cinematic adaptation of this book, yeesh. Gillian Flynn writes such fast-moving, addictive fiction. Like Gone Girl, Sharp Objects is hard to put down for long. The books also share the similarity of being populated by a cast of entirely unlikeable characters. Sharp Objects is kind of like an extended episode of Criminal Minds in which our team of FBI behavior analysts has been replaced by an alcoholic journalist with a very traumatic upbringing? Cre
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3.5 stars. It kept my interest to the end. Very dark. Not as good as Gone Girl (which I loved).
Dec 13, 2009
Ching-In
marked it as to-read
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Paula
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