Gone Girl: A Book Review

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I both loved and hated this book. I love the literary daring of the author, but hate the content. I rated it four stars as a compromise. Loved the twists. Loved how the author took psychosis that so many have and then maxed it times a million to make it into crazy people. Loved how the author was brave enough to let the bad guy win and not have a "happily ever after." Hate how the author used the stereotypical "women are crazy." Hate how she attacked marriage. (Isn't marriage under fire enough already? Lame.) Hated how this book made me feel just a miserable as the characters and so I had to speed read through it just to get it away from me. Loved that is was so powerfully written that it did have that amount of effect on me. Hated all the characters.  Loved that the author made me dislike all the characters in some way or another; who does that?! Hated the overuse of swear words. If your writer characters can't come up with more colorful swears, you're writing your characters incorrectly. What we have here is a literary love/hate relationship both between myself and this book and between the two main characters. Twisted.


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