Overall Rating and Opinion of "Gone Girl"
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Re: Overall Rating and Opinion of "Gone Girl"
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Read the book in a few hours.... skipped work, and read it in a park. Couldn't put it down. However, I hated the movie.
'Girl on a Train' is even better..

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It's one of those books that definitely makes you think twice. This book was a thriller and the huge plot twist in the middle basically made me gasp. I couldn't recommend this more to anyone, but also I don't want to keep writing for fear I'll give something away! Read it! It's so good!
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The idea of marriage is completely eviscerated in this novel. Gillian Flynn absolutely crucifies the characters of both men and women, and there's a lot of sexism. It isn't something I could even be angry about because she was just as harsh about the realities of men as she was with women. However, even though the characters are unlikeable, I was still completely transfixed by their story. The writing was so sharp and a little scathing. Amy and Nick's voices were entirely different, which is hard to do when the book splits between perspectives, but Gillian Flynn handles it like a pro.
I can't wait to read her other books.
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Until the end. When everything fell apart. I hate it when I feel like an author just got tired of writing and decided to make a list of loose ends and tie them all up -- which is what I felt here. It's almost as if Flynn's editor said "a book much longer than this won't sell," so she just said " and that's the end. " Really disappointing. I felt like she dropped her characters as people, which made me resent the first 2/3 of the book for making me invest.
Ah well...I don't resent having read it, I just wish it had ended better!
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I was intrigued by how Gillian Flynn told the story of "Gone Girl". This was definitely a book that kept me turning the pages. I couldn't put the book down! Once I had finished the book it took me a couple days to really think about what I had happened. I was angry, happy, and frustrated all at once with how the story was concluded. In the end, I decided I liked the ending, it really summed up Nick and Amy's relationship in a way that stayed true to the book.
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