Okay, I get it now. After reading **Gone Girl** by Gillian Flynn, I finally understand the appeal of the unreliable narrator.For over a decade, I just didn't get it. I was so befuddled, I had to fake it to hide my confusion. Seriously, whenever someone raved about domestic thrillers and the ubiquitous unreliable narrator, I'd smile and nod like I was in on the secret. But honestly? I had no clue what they were talking about.The unreliable narrators I'd encountered up to this point always seemed ...

"There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold." On the day of Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth anniversary - Amy disappears. Without a trace. Well...not...really without a trace.There's a lot of weird...things associated with the disappearance. Blood that was messily cleaned up, a suspiciously staged scene and a host of other bits of evidence that all points towards Nick Dunne.But in the world where the murderer is always the husband...what happens when it...

AMY DUNNEI am Amy. I’m so perfect you may want to puke. It’s okay, I have that effect on everyone, even my parents. They noticed I was so perfect when I was a little girl and so they wrote some vastly popular children’s books called The Adventures of Amazing Amy. You may have been given them to read in school, and you may have puked on them. I am so self-regarding I can’t pass a mirror without congratulating it that it’s reflecting me and not somebody else. I forgot to mention that I have a perf...

3 1/2 stars. This is going to be a tough review to write because I'm so conflicted about my final rating and how much I actually *liked* Gone Girl. For one thing, I think the second half is a big improvement over the first, and while this is my least favorite book by Gillian Flynn, I can see why some reviewers see it as her strongest work. Let me ask this: is it possible to be objective when writing a book review? Can a book ever be objectively "good," even if some people don't enjoy it as muc...

Being stuck inside the heads of two seriously messed-up people for the entire length of *Gone Girl* made me feel genuinely icky. Gillian Flynn really nailed portraying the minds of sadistic, narcissistic sociopaths, making this a very dark book. And honestly, for some reason, nothing that happened really surprised me. That made the story kind of boring, which might also be because I just didn't like or care about either of the completely unrepentant, clueless, and self-absorbed characters. I jus...

Honestly, *Gone Girl* by Gillian Flynn is a complete and utter train wreck. Hands down, one of the worst books I’ve ever forced myself to finish. There’s this overwhelming sense of self-satisfaction oozing from *Gone Girl*. It was such an irritating read that I actually started making a list of all the ludicrous moments. And to add insult to injury, I had the whole damn ending figured out before I even hit page 100.The sheer volume of f-bombs and swearing is insane, and that’s saying something c...

Quite simply, "Gone Girl" is one of the best novels of the year. It's a thriller in the best tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, layered with brilliantly written characters; it's the kind of book that's nearly impossible to put down. The surprises and twists keep the reader guessing up until the final page, and my first thought upon finishing Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" was that I wanted to read it a second time. If you are looking for great book reviews, look no further.

I'm pretty selective about new releases, but *Gone Girl's* opening (about a man studying his wife's skull in bed) and unique alternating POV structure promised a kind of He Said, She Said *Crimes and Misdemeanors*, a *The Secret History* with a sense of humor. I did really like the structure, along with some of the zingers, and some of the saucier images, but that's about it. From the Kushner epigraph to the name-checking of Noel Coward on page 68 to the use of Pygmalion as a verb 20 pages afte...

This book was just way too much fun – and I mean that in a good way. I'm taking a leisurely drive down the garden path of the story, when BAM – right in the middle it makes a U-turn and we are on the damn highway doing 90 miles an hour (commonly referred to as a plot twist). Sweet Mother of Mercy!There is not much to say without the risk of giving up some detail that’s best left secret. Soooo many times I wanted to just take one little peek at the end to see what happens to Nick and Amy in *Gone...

As seen on The ReadventurerI'm giving Gone Girl 3 stars, but I'm doing it reluctantly. Honestly, any book that takes me three months and twenty attempts to finish probably isn't worth even those three stars (the "I liked it" rating on Goodreads), especially when it's written by an author I already admire. And I'm not exaggerating – the first half of Gone Girl was pure torture to get through.Amy Dunne vanishes on her fifth wedding anniversary. The evidence that slowly surfaces points to her husba...