Gone Girl
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Book - 2012
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Gone Girl is a good book, but you probably know that already. Flynn's third novel about a couple's secrets was an absolute cultural sensation, and it's not too late to figure out why Amy Dunne is literature's best modern antiheroine.
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Quotes
Add a Quote"The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie."
"You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine."
"People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges."
"We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way."
"Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?"
"It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters."
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Summary
Add a SummaryCompelling plot and thought provoking, especially regarding the nature of relationships vs the meaning of love.
Children book star Amy Elliot disappears the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary. The prime suspect is in fact her husband, Nick Dunne. Although Nick denies any knowledge of Amy's disappearance, there's a trail of evidence pointing to his involvement. What truly happened to Amy?
On the day of Nick and Amy’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick heads home in the afternoon and finds his wife gone and their living room destroyed. Besides reacting inappropriately to his wife being missing (being pretty calm about the whole thing), Nick is also lies to the cops and soon becomes the prime suspect in what has bloomed into a murder investigation. As chapters alternate between Nick’s perspective and Amy’s diary entries, readers will grow increasingly aware that their marriage is far from perfect. However, did Nick really kill Amy? If not, where is she?
Two very self absorbed, selfish sociopaths plan and scheme in order to make each other better psychopaths.
In depth love story about two people, one who is psycho and one who is afraid of who he may become. Terrible tangle of lies, deceit, mental abuse and finally, the breaking point.
After leaving New York, Amy moves in and lives with Nick in his house. Everything is going fine until the day of their fifth anniversary, Nick goes home and finds out that his wife has gone missing. As the police opens an investigation, they discovers dark secrets inside the marriage of the couple.
A great summer / vacation read! Fast moving plot with surprising turns and relationship drama. Definitely written with a screen plan in mind, a la Dan Brown. Enjoyed it enough to see the movie, too -- I just hope they don't change the ending...
AnneDromeda
Sep 24, 2012
Let me preface this review by stating that I know I’m late to this party. I do. But now that I’m here, I really do not want you to miss it. Have you read *Gone Girl* yet? No? Holy cats, people, you must get on it, and here’s why:<br />
Nick and Amy Dunne have it all - living in a Manhattan brownstone, handsome Nick works as a writer for a highbrow magazine, and beautiful Amy is the benefactor of an empire of children’s books created by her parents in her image. The Dunnes met in the cutest of cute meets, their dialogue is witty, their sex life is charged and adventurous. Having become accustomed to living in the charmed lap of luxury, they are doubly surprised when the financial meltdown claims Nick’s job and Amy’s trust fund. Listless, with no work to tie them to Manhattan, Nick proposes they move back to his native Missouri to look after his ailing parents.<br />
Things take a very dark turn in Missouri; the marriage flounders, and Amy goes missing the morning of their fifth anniversary. The scene initially suggests a struggle with an intruder, but police soon determine the struggle scene is staged. Traces of blood – a lot of blood – are found in another location. Very soon, it is assumed that Amy is dead, and Nick is the prime suspect.<br />
Flynn weaves a dark, deft tale of psychological terror, juxtaposing Amy’s diary entries leading to her disappearance with chapters detailing the minutiae of Nick’s life and mind under the microscope of police and media. Flynn has a gift for building characters’ psychological profiles so completely that readers feel they know exactly what comes next because they really know the people in the story. But you don’t know the people in the story, not like you think you do; and when the whole novel turns a dime-tight twist halfway through, your sense of sick dread is amplified knowing things are much darker, weirder and more complex than you ever thought. <br />
*Gone Girl* is a masterpiece among psychological thrillers that will keep you awake all night. Bring snacks. You aren’t going to want to get up for anything once you get reading.<br />
Notices
Add NoticesCoarse Language: There is a lot of coarse language throughout the entire book.
Comment
Add a CommentI dare you to put this down. Side note, the film adaptation rocks. 5/5
Wow! Totally disappointed. Why did I think that something so popular could actually be good? It was till, it wasn't. Predictable and trite.
AMAZING book! Completely draws you in, loved every minute of it. Definitely worth a read! Recommend reading the book before watching the movie (which is also amazing).
I liked it. I did. But... a disappointment because I loved her other two soooo much. Amy disappears - it looks at best like an abduction but most likely a murder and the police and the Nancy Grace whipped-into-a-frenzy public all believe it's the husband. But this is Gillian Flynn and nothing is like it appears...
The good: the writing is simply superb. Razor sharp, brilliant, bitingly humorous, characteristically acute. The not so good: the surprises didn't surprise me. And what made her first two novels so special - the jaw-dropping, flesh crawling, almost gothic twists, turns, and reveals - were missing. No shocks in the dollhouses here.
Still enjoyed it. Still glad I read it. But she set the bar so high with Sharp Objects and Dark Places, and she didn't reach it this time.
This book is a psychologically stimulating work of literature. It follows the characters Nick and Amy through their marriage and shows how their relationship affects one another. The characters Nick and Amy, are seemingly normal people, who turn mad because of one another, something that may happen in a normal relationship, because of its' proximity to reality, the book ends up questioning the reader whether they really know their significant other or not. It is an interesting book to read, I definitely recommend it for it really stimulates one's mind throughout it. The book especially dives into the themes of revenge, deceit, betrayal and the role of power. Sex is also important when looking at this story, the role of gender and the role of one's sex is important. This book also gives the readers an example of a modern Femme Fatale, one that readers don't normally witness. This book is for readers over 21. Out of five, I will give it a 4.5. @Lime_Latte of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is about the disappearance of Amy Dunne and how her husband Nick’s life gets turned upside down when he becomes the prime suspect. This book had a bit of a slow start but got very exciting when the pace sped up. The chapters switch between Nick’s point of view throughout the investigation, and Amy’s diary entries over the course of their relationship, with many surprises, and twists you would never have seen coming. I found this book to be very suspenseful and dark in the beginning, but as the story progressed it got a bit funny and clever. I would suggest this book to anyone who is a fan of The Girl on the Train and similar style suspense or mystery novels. I would rate this book 8/10 stars. @bookaholic of the Hamilton Public Library's Teen Review Board
This is a devious, twisty psychological thriller and I hated every character's decisions but was still sucked in.
I actually didn't know a lot about this story until I read this book, other than the idea came from a real wife disappearance story. It was really unique and went in so many directions. This book follows a very strange and kind of unpredictable plot. My feelings about the characters and what was happening kept changing as more information was revealed, and the ending was not what I was expecting at all. I don't want to give more details, but it's popularity is completely deserved.
Very thrilling book! Kept me guessing until the very end.
Interesting and kind of scary book!
On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
I couldn't even finish the book I was so bored. I'm not sure how people got through this. No excitement, and nothing to draw me in.