Gone Girl

High drama so loved it obvi

gone girl boy bye

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I wish I didn't have to finish this

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

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.

INSANE

the woman was too stunned to speak

3.5 amy is delusional. for someone who's incredibly smart, she's so easily deluded into believing what she wants. a really interesting character. it wasn't grappling enough that i need to keep reading it in one sitting, but it still made a pretty intense read. i really liked the dictions used. also, just like many people have said in their reviews: don't get married.

Marriage is wonderful ❤️

Y'know, it's been a VERY long time and I mean very (we're talking about since HP Book 6 when I was in middle school-currently two years out of college) that I've stayed up at night to read and this book just blew me away. Plot twists out of nowhere, unbelievable deception, crafty characters....I looked forward to it every night. I think I've been inducted into the thriller genre and it's all thanks to this book.

marriage is something I fear now

I will review this novel in the way that one of its main characters wants me to: ‘It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked it or I didn’t. No discussion of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structures. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog. All right. Gone Girl is pretty good. The writing is fine and reminded me of Nick Hornby. I’m probably alone in this, but I felt that the first half of the book read a bit like a crime version of one of my favorite books, High Fidelity. The protagonists are also basically the same characters; a lovable and self-deprecating asshole who loses his girl and as a result re-examines his fear of commitment and tendency to act on his emotions. To speak of the themes I must spoil the plot. I realized early on that there would be a plot twist, as everyone knows by now, but I was actually convinced that the twist that was foreshadowed was different, darker and more sinister than the actual twist. Because I don’t have any other place to share the theories I formed while reading, I’ll do it here: (view spoiler)[Nick considered that Amy wanted to be found, and I thought the treasure hunt was a race to find her, because she had hidden herself. (That last part turned out to be true, of course.) I first believed that Nick would be too late, and find her hidden in some place significant in their relationship that he had forgotten, and that she would be lying there, dead. Reaffirming this theory was the doormat outside their house with the words “All are friends who enter here”; nobody had broken in. That theory would have worked if Amy was a friend to Nick. After the blood was found in the kitchen, and her “pregnancy” was revealed, I thought she had possibly cut the fetus out of her womb there, and that the dead baby would be waiting in the wooden crib that was one of the clues. That would have been dark indeed. As it stands, however, the first half of the novel simply plays with the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” trope, and the twist deconstructs it, which brings us neatly to the structure of the book. (hide spoiler)] Structure-wise, the book has chapters that alternate between first person point of views from the two highly unreliable narrators, both of whom clearly suffer from some mental issues, perhaps sociopathy and narcissism. The most interesting part of the book is watching the “game” between these two minds unfold. Following the twist, however, I felt a little let down by the rest of the book. Events unfolded at a more rapid pace, less akin to the mysterious feel of the first part. A lot of character development (especially of secondary characters) was tossed aside for the quick and, to me, slightly unsatisfying and predictable ending. I liked the book, but after finishing it I felt much as I do after having ravenously eaten a regular old hot dog on an empty stomach.

Saw the movie first. Book was just as phenomenal

Loved loved loved this book. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and I found it so hard to put down. I missed a few bus stops on my way to work because of this book. The twist and turns were so unpredictable that I couldn't even tell if they were real. Although I have to say I was hoping for a little more for the ending. It left me hanging and needing more from Nick and Amy, and not in a cliff hanger kind of way. It felt a lot like there was no closure to the book. Regardless of how I felt about the ending, absolutely loved it!