Mal ,'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
So, I am now reading Gone Girl and it is a weird fucking book.
I am getting ready to bail on it (and/or skim the rest) because I absolutely cannot stand the main narrator. I am interested in the end tho. Any suggestions from those of you who have read it? Should I hang in?
The second part of the book has a different narrator, le nub, but no guarantee you will like that character any better. I stuck with it only to see how she tied up the loose ends, but I never actually liked it. Imagine me shrugging.
New sneak peek from GRRM's Winds of Winter.
Excerpt from the follow-up to Shelly Adina's Lady of Devices.
I am getting ready to bail on it (and/or skim the rest) because I absolutely cannot stand the main narrator. I am interested in the end tho. Any suggestions from those of you who have read it? Should I hang in?
Amy or Nick? Either way, I'd say it's worth sticking with to see where it goes. But, FWIW, I thought Amy was supremely annoying in the beginning and ended up loving the book.
Nick is who is annoying me. Amy (through her diaries) is okay I guess. From the beginning there are all these inconsistencies between the narratives that are driving me crazy (and not even across, but within - mostly Nick's). I'm trying to figure out if I should like someone in this book because so far, there isn't even a child in the narrative that I could care about.
I'm about halfway through Gone Girl. ah ha.
that's all I will say.
Excerpt from the Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker.
I finished Gone Girl.
What a fucked up book. I mean holy shit. I figured out the central "mystery" but I never would have predicted the end. Both because it is so unrealistic in comparison to the rest. I actually don't buy the ending at all. SPOILERS Nick is absolutely kidding himself if he thinks he can keep this ruse going on all the time while they raise a child - who might become a devil child too. What happens when two people with extremely bad judgment who have dysfunctional emotional responses and knee jerk violent impulses raise a child? Man.
Huh, that's sort of why I thought it was the perfect ending. I didn't like it, but it sort of felt like the only way to go.