Sunday's paper had three mentions of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl: A Novel and then the magazine I flipped through recommended it as well. Catching up today with Entertainment Weekly, I discovered another article and interview with the author in the Summer Double Issue. Does that seem like a rather insistent message from the universe to you? I mean, I already had ordered Gone Girl to download to my Kindle Fire pre-pub and it has been waiting for my attention ever since.
So I started to read today and am already engrossed and fascinated. The tale is told in two very distinct voices: that of Amy through her earlier journals juxtaposed with Nick's insistence on the facts of the present. Who should the reader believe?
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I downloaded this book on my nook; not normally one to give in to 'what I hear' this time I've failed completely. I've heard nothing but good, and I'm glad you seem to concur. Now I just have to finish Dostoevsky's The Idiot before I can start. ;)
ReplyDeletep.s. Have you read Before I Go To Sleep? Talk about who to believe! One doesn't know until the very last few pages...
ReplyDeleteStill liking "Gone Girl". And yes, I read "Before I Go to Sleep" last summer and liked it although I couldn't tell you how it ended without scanning it again.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read this book! I just hope it lives up to the hype. I never finished Before I Go to Sleep because I just couldn't get into it. I hope Gone Girl is much better and more gripping.
ReplyDeleteGone Girl is excellent. Totally gripping and well written. Unless the ending doesn't deliver, it will be a book you can highly recommend to all your reading friends!
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