Gone Girl was a page turner 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, ifyou'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.
I disagree with this. I think the book had a lot to say about how people often present one face to a significant other when you first start dating and then end up showing your real self little by little over time. It was just taken to the extreme in this case.
I also thought there was some great stuff in the book about journalism and the media and how they report on things like a missing woman, and how easy it is to sway public perception of someone's guilt or innocence.
Just started Gone Girl -- maybe four chapters in -- and I love it. She's an incredible writer. I'm a little wary about hating the plot of it toward the end, because there was a pretty divisive twist, right?
The writing really was incredible. Has anyone read any of Flynn's other books? I think I need to check them out.
yeah, you too see the ending more "favorably" than I did. I really hated it. Makes me wonderif this is how her parents started out .
I loved the ending, but the book did really make me wonder about Amy's parents. They're really the great unsolved mystery of the book. How exactly did they end up raising someone like Amy, and was their marriage really as perfect as it seemed from the outside? Was it a perfect marriage where they only cared about each other and not as much about Amy help turn Amy into what she was? What does that say about Amy and Nick's baby's future? Can two such messed up people raise a perfectly normal child?
Count me among those who think the ending of Gone Girl is rather perfect. Not satisfying in any way, but perfect.
I agree. I loved that I couldn't figure out where it was going to go, even as the end got closer and closer.
I'd really love it if Flynn wrote another book someday from the point of view of the kid, and I'd also love another book with the lawyer and his wife.