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.
I wanted something more on the lines of
homicide-suicide. He drives them off a cliff.
I didn't like it, but it sort of felt like the only way to go.
Yeah, that was kind of how I felt about it too.
Gone Girl
was a pageturner for sure, and there were some things I liked about it, but so much of the characterization just did not work for me, and all the hype about how it's a book about marriage and men and women and blah blah blah... uh, if you're
married to a total psychopath (sociopath?), then perhaps it would give you some insight into your own marriage,
but otherwise it didn't seem to have a whole lot to say about actual human relationships.
Has anyone read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore? I read the Kindle sample, and the wait list at my library is 145 people, so I think I might be buying it.
t /no impulse control when it comes to books
t /or anything
Kate,
there is no insight into actual human relationships I don't think.
Yes, I read it. I found it mostly cute, although there were moments I did love. I certainly enjoyed it. If you want a little more detail, it's kind of a cross between
an old-school treasure hunt kind of thing and a new technology world.
I'm good with cute. The Kindle sample definitely caught my attention. (Which might be a hilariously ironic statement, given what I think is the nature of the story.)
Dana, that sort of sounds like
a bibliophile version of Ready Player One.
There are definitely some similarities to
Ready Player One, but it's much less agressively, um....less nerd-culture oriented? It's like the difference between reading a book and playing a video game.
