Overall Rating and Opinion of "Gone Girl"
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Re: Overall Rating and Opinion of "Gone Girl"
I actually thought the beginning was very slow. It was hard for me to get into the book. I did really enjoy the majority of the book. The twists and plot turns, though at times predictable were still sritten in a way that made it exciting for the reader. I am not a fan of the ending, I feel like it ends in a way that leaves both parties hanging. Just waiting for the next to make the move but we all know no one ever will. But perhaps this is a comment on the true nature of so many unhappy marriages in the world today.
But I would recommend this book to others and do so regularly in my everyday life. Especially with the movie coming out (which I have not yet seen) the interest in this novel has piqued and I ALWAYS recommend the book.
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The book is OK but it didn't keep me up all night reading it (the mark of a great book) in fact I got fed up with it & had to leave it aside for a day or two. For a thriller it's quite slow & plodding & a bit too contrived to be satisfying. As for Nick and Amy - they remind me of the Irish saying "If God made them, he matched them" - equally unpleasant, manipulative and shallow. In fact I didn't like any of the characters and didn't find myself invested in any of them. Not a book I would be recommending and I'll certainly not be rereading it.
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I agree with you. Like you, I also couldn't put the book down, but was very disappointed in the ending. The ending just didn't seem realistic, compared to everything that had happened. I would be interested to hear what the author's reasoning was for this type of ending.onikitaaa wrote:During the beginning of gone girl, I was so impressed with Gillan Flynns style of writing. I was instantly hooked. Not able to put down, until getting to the ending. I thought the ending was so drab and the easy way out. This book would have been so much better with a conclusion that actually worked and made sense for the characters
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I do agree with some of the other posters that it falls apart a bit at the end. It is so clever and fresh up until that point, then it ends as though it is tripping down he stairs.
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Did you get the feeling that she didn't quite know how to finish off the book? To me it felt like she rushed just to wrap it all up anyoldhow and all the deviousness and manipulation she had woven into the characters in the first half of the book. Or maybe, like me, she just got sick of Nick and Amy & wanted rid of them.jhollan2 wrote:I really liked this book. Or rather, I didn't like it. It was so dark and twisted and awful and also amazing at the same time. Flynn did a masterful job of turning a cliched convention into something shocking and disturbing. It reminded me of Wuthering Heights, in the sense that they are both books with absolutely terrible main characters. I didn't know who I should be rooting for or against.
I do agree with some of the other posters that it falls apart a bit at the end. It is so clever and fresh up until that point, then it ends as though it is tripping down he stairs.
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I agree, Fran. Flynn did such an amazing job with the first half of the book, then it was like Amy kind of unraveled. She was this strong, kind of awesome, spiteful sociopath. Lets face it... who hasn't fantasized about doing something drastic and awful to a guy who broke their heart? Maybe not quite this extreme, but I think the impulse is universal, which is why it resonated with so many readers. By the end, though, she is so clingy and weirdly emotional that I found I hated her even more for going back to him and trying to make things work than I did when she was being a psychopath. She didn't seem as clever somehow, like she had lost her edge and the plot and didn't know what she wanted so she just did what she had done before the whole thing started.Fran wrote:Did you get the feeling that she didn't quite know how to finish off the book? To me it felt like she rushed just to wrap it all up anyoldhow and all the deviousness and manipulation she had woven into the characters in the first half of the book. Or maybe, like me, she just got sick of Nick and Amy & wanted rid of them.
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