Name: Gone Girl
ISBN: 9780385366755

Gillian Flynn

Julia Whelan

Kirby Heyborne

A Novel

Gone Girl

Valeria Durán

Jessie!

raia – inactive

I’ve suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

High Fidelity

Hannah L 

eden

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?

Ella Bruggink

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much!

Well there are all kinds of men, his most damning phrase, the second half left unsaid, and you are the wrong kind.

But he didn’t love me, me. Nick loved a girl who doesn’t exist. I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can’t help it, it’s what I’ve always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. 

Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that’s how the hating first began. I’ve thought about this a lot, and that’s where it started, I think.

Hell, at this point, I can’t imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist.

I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

But there’s no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

It’s the female pissing contest – as we swan around our book clubs and our cocktail hours, there are few things women love more than being able to detail the sacrifices our men make for us. A call-and-response, the response being: ‘Ohhh, that’s so sweet.’

Click. You just know each other. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it’s so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.

I’m glad I didn’t read Gone Girl in my early 20s like I originally wanted to. I honestly think I would’ve found it boring back then. Reading it now, in my 30s, the book feels much more relevant in ways I didn’t expect.

Not because I relate to the extreme actions or the psychological games, but because I understand the contradictions in relationships a little more. The disappointment, resentment, distance, and confusing ways people can care about you while still hurting you. The feeling of realizing someone is emotionally complicated, or seeing patterns in them that seem inherited, almost like they are becoming versions of the people who raised them.

Some parts of the book felt uncomfortable in a familiar way. Not in the sense of “this happened to me,” but more in the way that relationships can become morally messy and emotionally conflicting. I’ve known people who were caring yet distant, sincere yet contradictory. Gone Girl exaggerated those dynamics, but the emotions underneath still felt familiar to me.

I also realised the book matches quite closely with how cynical I currently feel about love. That might sound harsh, but I think age and experiences sometimes make you more aware that relationships are not always built only on affection. There are expectations, disappointments, compromises, selfishness, and versions of ourselves we show to each other.

I didn’t enjoy reading pages of spouses complaining about one another, but I appreciated the perspectives. That’s probably what surprised me most about this book. Years ago, I would’ve dismissed it. Reading it now, I understood it.

Ash Hoe

I’m glad I didn’t read Gone Girl in my early 20s like I originally wanted to. I honestly think I would’ve found it boring back then. Reading it now, in my 30s, the book feels much more relevant in ways I didn’t expect.

Not because I relate to the extreme actions or the psychological games, but because I understand the contradictions in relationships a little more. The disappointment, resentment, distance, and confusing ways people can care about you while still hurting you. The feeling of realizing someone is emotionally complicated, or seeing patterns in them that seem inherited, almost like they are becoming versions of the people who raised them.

Some parts of the book felt uncomfortable in a familiar way. Not in the sense of “this happened to me,” but more in the way that relationships can become morally messy and emotionally conflicting. I’ve known people who were caring yet distant, sincere yet contradictory. Gone Girl exaggerated those dynamics, but the emotions underneath still felt familiar to me.

I also realised the book matches quite closely with how cynical I currently feel about love. That might sound harsh, but I think age and experiences sometimes make you more aware that relationships are not always built only on affection. There are expectations, disappointments, compromises, selfishness, and versions of ourselves we show to each other.

I didn’t enjoy reading pages of spouses complaining about one another, but I appreciated the perspectives. That’s probably what surprised me most about this book. Years ago, I would’ve dismissed it. Reading it now, I understood it.

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and plans are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. As the pólice begin to investigate, the town golden boy parades a series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?

idk if my experience reading the book was affected from already having seen the movie adaptation, but i was a bit let down with the twists compared to sharp objects. maybe i just prefer sharp objects as a book and show plot-wise and in my preferences. this was still pretty good tho, 4 stars is very high but, sharp objects is still my fav work from flynn. ill be sat for more from her !

Nica

For use in schools and libraries only. When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.

vindhya

not one trustworthy person in this book and that’s what makes it FUN!

Nina

ness

This was mind boggling, world twisting, and so crazy. Everything they say makes you doubt what you know. Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? What's real? This was amazing.

Tsu 💙

Deeply psychologically twisted, but still wildly engaging! Flynn is an expert writer, forcing her readers to pick a hero when every character is either spineless or psycho. Loved it!

Amelia Macy

this is what i mean when i say "you never really know someone" 

Sophia Rico

Almost a modern version of Wuthering Heights. Even better. Obsessed.

LIMEKI 

Lauren Piper

Allegrachatterjee

 This book was such a mind fuck. I liked it kind of felt “The Perfect Marriage” vibes but different in its own way.

Edna Aviles

this book is iconic and i cant believe i’ve never read it! i truly feel so happy to be a woman

soph 

It was well written and definitely kept me on the edge of my seat, but… it made me so mad. Twisted. Spineless. Sick. I don’t feel sorry for a single character in the book, save the lady detective. It’s pretty bad when the cop is the best person in the book. 

Jennifer Palmer

A love like this just doesn’t come around probably ever 

Zachary Roberts

These two are cuckoo crazy and they deserve eachother. May a marriage like this never find anyone. 

Jillian Roberts

Great, thrilling read with believable characters and the author has a way of writing where you can visualize everything as it’s happening…but the ending let me down.

Danielle Naurayan

This book would really make you think twice about getting married. Just what the heck was that? I feel like this could be a 200-page kind of book—it should've been. Nick Dunne and Amy Elliot-Dune. What a terrible way to live life.

Kath

In the beginning, it was a tough read. I kept thinking “why hell is this book so famous? Amy is the most spineless, pathetic, pick me girl”. It was hard to put up with how childish Amy was portrayed but, above all, with how much I despised Nick and how he treated her.

Needless to say, I was in for a surprise. One of the best plot twists I have read, and though I called it from the beginning “well, obviously she staged it”, the way it was developed was absolutely brilliant. Watching the characters become increasingly more psychotic, yet still rooting for them, for the shit-show to become an even bigger shit-show, was thrilling and kept me hooked until the last page. 

I have to admit that I despise Nick. He was a complete asshole and, even after being framed and having his whole life ruined, I couldn’t help but feel avenged for Amy. But maybe that is just my own psycho bitch side. 

The ending wrapped everything together in a way that keeps you wanting more (because the story is just so good that you want to keep reading and watch the characters become even more deranged) but brings closure. It is hard to end an intense story like that, and I believe Flynn executed it flawlessly. 

Brunella

In the beginning, it was a tough read. I kept thinking “why hell is this book so famous? Amy is the most spineless, pathetic, pick me girl”. It was hard to put up with how childish Amy was portrayed but, above all, with how much I despised Nick and how he treated her.

Needless to say, I was in for a surprise. One of the best plot twists I have read, and though I called it from the beginning “well, obviously she staged it”, the way it was developed was absolutely brilliant. Watching the characters become increasingly more psychotic, yet still rooting for them, for the shit-show to become an even bigger shit-show, was thrilling and kept me hooked until the last page. 

I have to admit that I despise Nick. He was a complete asshole and, even after being framed and having his whole life ruined, I couldn’t help but feel avenged for Amy. But maybe that is just my own psycho bitch side. 

The ending wrapped everything together in a way that keeps you wanting more (because the story is just so good that you want to keep reading and watch the characters become even more deranged) but brings closure. It is hard to end an intense story like that, and I believe Flynn executed it flawlessly. 

En un caluroso día de verano, Amy y Nick se disponen a celebrar su quinto aniversario de bodas en North Carthage, a orillas del río Mississippi. Pero Amy desaparece esa misma mañana sin dejar rastro. A medida que la investigación policial avanza las sospechas recaen sobre Nick. Sin embargo, Nick insiste en su inocencia. Es cierto que se muestra extrañamente evasivo y frío, pero ¿es un asesino? La adaptación de la novela ha sido llevada al cine en la película dirigida por David Fincher con Ben Affleck y Rosamund Pike como protagonistas principales.

Gone girl

What a book! I absolutely loved reading Gone Girl, I didn't expect any of the plot twists and it's definitely one I'd read again.

0cchi

Mia Hamilton

Lola

It was boring. 🤷‍♀️ could have definitely been 200 pages shorter.

Amy is not a sociopath. She is unstable to the core, and immature. What happened here is how Gillian Flynn writes Amy, we simply sympathizing to her delusions. 

Angelica Blanche Salva 

gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss

Amy is not a sociopath. She is unstable to the core, and immature. What happened here is how Gillian Flynn writes Amy, we simply sympathizing to her delusions. 

Gone Girl A Novel

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