Gone Girl

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Well this book took an extremely long time to finish and there was a huge break in between. I was in the first third of the book and it was dragging beyond belief. I said to myself, "This is neither enjoyable, nor relaxing and is constantly putting me to sleep......SWITCH!" So after a long break and a discussion with a very good friend, (that did give away some very important information), I decided to try again. Well the book is now done and I am not any better for sticking it out, and I probably have lost some valuable reading time. I just could not get over how poorly written this book was. Not only were the characters lame, I actually hated AMY.... and NICK..... and MARGOT.....and ANDIE....oh hell I hated everyone, and overly intelligent but the ending was a complete let down. I would not recommend this book to anyone. It seemed to me like Flynn was trying to write a masterpiece like Herman Koch..... the delivery is just not there and the shock and awe factor is slightly there but not as dramatic as Herman, therefore causing an unsuccessful horror. Not many people can do what Herman does, so people like Flynn should just leave the heavy stuff for the professionals. Case and point.


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