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Gone Girl

By Gillian Flynn

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Reader Reviews

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April 4, 2013 - 2:29pm — imherslug

How can I read it online or as an ebook?

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March 18, 2013 - 1:18am — cloggie-downunder

Gone Girl is the third novel by American author, Gillian Flynn. “She was the girl that every girl wanted to be: beautiful, brilliant, inspiring and very wealthy. He was the guy that all men admired: handsome, funny, bright and charming. But on July fifth, their seemingly perfect world came crashing in when Amy Elliott Dunne disappeared on their fifth wedding anniversary.” Flynn alternates narrations from husband Nick Dunne starting the day of the disappearance with diary entries by Amy Elliott Dunne starting when she first met Nick, and later, narrations by Amy, to gradually lead the reader through a tense, clever plot with some breathtaking twists and turns. Along the way, she touches on the power of TV and social media, the influence of good (and bad) parenting and whether anyone can really know their spouse. With plenty of black humour, Gone Girl is witty, scary, funny and brilliant.

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August 11, 2012 - 7:05pm — lecuts

Via Lectus

“I want my money back!” This is what I was thinking while reading this book. The first half of the book can be used as sleep therapy... Now the second half… it is f…ing good! Unfortunately, I had already figured two ways that the story could go and (lucky me – super mind?) it went one of those ways. But still, it was really good.

The story starts with Nick, who lives the live of a loser. Then his wife Amy disappears and, as commonly said, the husband is the first suspect. So Nick tries to clean his name and rebut the evidence that points to him. When I was about to abandon the book and delete it off my Kindle, Amy’s POV kicks in. Now THIS was interesting.

Why wasn’t the book like that from the beginning? I don’t know, but reflecting back on the story I think that maybe Flynn wanted it to be exactly like that: with a boring Nick giving us a boring beginning to later have Amy set us on fire.

What I liked: Amy and her unusual twisted mind. Yes, the bitch is crazy (you’ll know what I mean when you read it). She got her way and she got screwed. And although we believe that things are good or bad, that there is good and evil and is either black or white, the book settled in between (what I think must be grey). Nick also evolved as a person and became alive although it was through some… let’s say bizarre stimulus, but he didn’t end up being the same man he was at the beginning.