Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn

[BizzyLizzy]

I'm surprised this book doesn't already have a post for it!

I started reading this book a while ago, and it took me a bit to get through the first half as I kept delaying it. According to a lot of reviews, this book has been generally regarded as one with a "slow beginning". About a week ago, however, I got about halfway through the book and have been reading it every day since! Gripped!!

The characters in this book really feel 3 dimensional and real. I LOVE the writing style (conversational, yet descriptive in a way I've never encountered before!) and the twist at the center of the book is executed excellently! If you haven't read it already, please pick it up and give it a shot! (Just be ready for a lot of exposition and development before this twist!)

Gone Girl is also soon becoming a movie (opening date Oct 3) and I'm really pumped! I'm a big crime genre junkie, and I have a special interest in the darker side of human nature and how people go about veiling themselves to protect either the people they love or themselves from their own faults and shortcomings. So far that I've read (about 74% of it), this seems to be a big theme, and I'm pretty excited to reach the conclusion (which I've heard people have either really loved or really hated!!!) as well as see how this plays out on a big screen!

Anyone else read this novel? What did you think of it?

[gali]

This book does have a post:

Gone Girl