The first page will draw you in and you’ll be a goner until the end. Compulsively readable. Dark, funny, complex and unforgettable. What a marriage!

posted Jul 28, 2012 at 9:29AM

I’ve been telling everyone about this book! One of the most engaging books I’ve read in years.

posted Aug 1, 2012 at 12:18PM

This is the most well-written thriller-type book I’ve read in a long time--as soon as I finished, even knowing how all of the twists and turns had worked out, I started reading it a second time to watch it happen again. Last summer’s similarly-hyped books, Before I Go To Sleep and Turn Of Mind, pale hugely in comparison. Gone Girl is probably more comparable to The Secret History or Mr. Peanut, though I ultimately liked it better than those and it’s a much less challenging, though no less well-composed, read. Great beach read, great weekend read, pure addictive fun you gulp down like cold water, one I can recommend equally to those who keep to bestseller lists and those who prefer ’literary’ fiction. I’ve heard the audiobook is excellent, too. So fun!

posted Aug 11, 2012 at 8:15AM

This book definitely lives up to the hype. The superlatives you’ve heard about it are deserved. I can’t write about the plot of the book without giving things away but besides the plot this is good writing. Darkly funny, funnily dark, characters you think you know…until you don’t. What really happens in a marriage? Flynn seems to be saying that we become different people than who we really are in order to live up to our mate’s expectations. It’s only later in the marriage that we become our true selves. However, apparently some marriage partners won’t allow this to happen. Though Amy says, “there is no such thing as ‘cool girl’”, the girl every man’s fantasizes about, she won’t allow Nick to become himself and insists he be “loving Nick” like when they first got married. Also, Flynn seems to say that our parents make us entirely who we are. Nick is nice and nurturing like his mother yet harbors a hatred or fear of women from his father. Amy, whose parents are psychologists and authors of a book series where the female protagonist is perfect, is an incredible student of human behavior and compulsively perfect. Ultimately, after reading the book you have to ask yourself. Who am I more like: Nick or Amy? If that question doesn’t keep you wide, staring awake at night I’d be surprised.

posted Aug 13, 2012 at 1:57PM

I disagree! I didn’t enjoy this title as much as her earlier titles...try them!

posted Aug 24, 2012 at 10:04AM

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