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Jul. 10th, 2012
So... I finished Gone Girl.
Interesting enough to make a compelling read and a couple of my predictions were wrong, so while I caught the big twist before it happened, it did surprise me in places. I certainly didn't predict that it would end the way it did.
NYTimes description of the book:
“This is the hardest part,” confides one of the untrustworthy narrators in GONE GIRL, “waiting for stupid people to figure things out.”
(...) [It is] an account of the troubled marriage of Nick and Amy Dunne, who alternate as unreliable narrators. (...) On the occasion of this young couple’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick tries to ignore the big questions weighing on his mind (“What have we done to each other?") and steels himself for the elaborate and humiliating treasure hunt his wife always makes of her gift presentation. But Nick’s brooding takes a dark turn, and Amy disappears, amid signs of a struggle, from their house on the Mississippi River in North Carthage, Missouri.
(...) Amy shares the narrative with Nick through her giddy diary entries that date back to their first meeting at a party in Brooklyn (...) In those days, handsome Nick wrote about pop culture for a men’s magazine, and beautiful, brainy Amy drew on her master’s degree in psychology to compose personality quizzes for the women’s market. But after losing their jobs in the publishing industry meltdown, Nick moved them to his backwater hometown and used the last of Amy’s trust fund to open a bar with his sister.
Although he made a good case (“The world will always want a drink”), Nick comes to regret detaching his urbane wife from her natural habitat...
Oh, and I finally figured out who "Amy" reminds me of ...
She's a contemporary Cersei Lannister. I'm not sure who a Nick parallel would be... but he kept being played by Matthew McCounaughey in my head. Is that a bad thing?
I think that's a bad thing.
Maybe it's the physical description, the constant mentions of the eternal fratboy douchebag lazy 'golden boy.'
But, OMG, y'all. The ending SUCKS! Guh. I 'get' that the writer no doubt thought that this was a unique turn, but it produces a satisfaction level of nil.
Yes, I'm pedestrian like that. I don't want an ending where I have to think "OMG, that psychopath...
is going to raise a child!"
Interesting enough to make a compelling read and a couple of my predictions were wrong, so while I caught the big twist before it happened, it did surprise me in places. I certainly didn't predict that it would end the way it did.
NYTimes description of the book:
“This is the hardest part,” confides one of the untrustworthy narrators in GONE GIRL, “waiting for stupid people to figure things out.”
(...) [It is] an account of the troubled marriage of Nick and Amy Dunne, who alternate as unreliable narrators. (...) On the occasion of this young couple’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick tries to ignore the big questions weighing on his mind (“What have we done to each other?") and steels himself for the elaborate and humiliating treasure hunt his wife always makes of her gift presentation. But Nick’s brooding takes a dark turn, and Amy disappears, amid signs of a struggle, from their house on the Mississippi River in North Carthage, Missouri.
(...) Amy shares the narrative with Nick through her giddy diary entries that date back to their first meeting at a party in Brooklyn (...) In those days, handsome Nick wrote about pop culture for a men’s magazine, and beautiful, brainy Amy drew on her master’s degree in psychology to compose personality quizzes for the women’s market. But after losing their jobs in the publishing industry meltdown, Nick moved them to his backwater hometown and used the last of Amy’s trust fund to open a bar with his sister.
Although he made a good case (“The world will always want a drink”), Nick comes to regret detaching his urbane wife from her natural habitat...
Oh, and I finally figured out who "Amy" reminds me of ...
She's a contemporary Cersei Lannister. I'm not sure who a Nick parallel would be... but he kept being played by Matthew McCounaughey in my head. Is that a bad thing?
I think that's a bad thing.
Maybe it's the physical description, the constant mentions of the eternal fratboy douchebag lazy 'golden boy.'
But, OMG, y'all. The ending SUCKS! Guh. I 'get' that the writer no doubt thought that this was a unique turn, but it produces a satisfaction level of nil.
Yes, I'm pedestrian like that. I don't want an ending where I have to think "OMG, that psychopath...
is going to raise a child!"
So... I finished Gone Girl.
Interesting enough to make a compelling read and a couple of my predictions were wrong, so while I caught the big twist before it happened, it did surprise me in places. I certainly didn't predict that it would end the way it did.
NYTimes description of the book:
“This is the hardest part,” confides one of the untrustworthy narrators in GONE GIRL, “waiting for stupid people to figure things out.”
(...) [It is] an account of the troubled marriage of Nick and Amy Dunne, who alternate as unreliable narrators. (...) On the occasion of this young couple’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick tries to ignore the big questions weighing on his mind (“What have we done to each other?") and steels himself for the elaborate and humiliating treasure hunt his wife always makes of her gift presentation. But Nick’s brooding takes a dark turn, and Amy disappears, amid signs of a struggle, from their house on the Mississippi River in North Carthage, Missouri.
(...) Amy shares the narrative with Nick through her giddy diary entries that date back to their first meeting at a party in Brooklyn (...) In those days, handsome Nick wrote about pop culture for a men’s magazine, and beautiful, brainy Amy drew on her master’s degree in psychology to compose personality quizzes for the women’s market. But after losing their jobs in the publishing industry meltdown, Nick moved them to his backwater hometown and used the last of Amy’s trust fund to open a bar with his sister.
Although he made a good case (“The world will always want a drink”), Nick comes to regret detaching his urbane wife from her natural habitat...
Oh, and I finally figured out who "Amy" reminds me of ...
She's a contemporary Cersei Lannister. I'm not sure who a Nick parallel would be... but he kept being played by Matthew McCounaughey in my head. Is that a bad thing?
I think that's a bad thing.
Maybe it's the physical description, the constant mentions of the eternal fratboy douchebag lazy 'golden boy.'
But, OMG, y'all. The ending SUCKS! Guh. I 'get' that the writer no doubt thought that this was a unique turn, but it produces a satisfaction level of nil.
Yes, I'm pedestrian like that. I don't want an ending where I have to think "OMG, that psychopath...
is going to raise a child!"
Interesting enough to make a compelling read and a couple of my predictions were wrong, so while I caught the big twist before it happened, it did surprise me in places. I certainly didn't predict that it would end the way it did.
NYTimes description of the book:
“This is the hardest part,” confides one of the untrustworthy narrators in GONE GIRL, “waiting for stupid people to figure things out.”
(...) [It is] an account of the troubled marriage of Nick and Amy Dunne, who alternate as unreliable narrators. (...) On the occasion of this young couple’s fifth wedding anniversary, Nick tries to ignore the big questions weighing on his mind (“What have we done to each other?") and steels himself for the elaborate and humiliating treasure hunt his wife always makes of her gift presentation. But Nick’s brooding takes a dark turn, and Amy disappears, amid signs of a struggle, from their house on the Mississippi River in North Carthage, Missouri.
(...) Amy shares the narrative with Nick through her giddy diary entries that date back to their first meeting at a party in Brooklyn (...) In those days, handsome Nick wrote about pop culture for a men’s magazine, and beautiful, brainy Amy drew on her master’s degree in psychology to compose personality quizzes for the women’s market. But after losing their jobs in the publishing industry meltdown, Nick moved them to his backwater hometown and used the last of Amy’s trust fund to open a bar with his sister.
Although he made a good case (“The world will always want a drink”), Nick comes to regret detaching his urbane wife from her natural habitat...
Oh, and I finally figured out who "Amy" reminds me of ...
She's a contemporary Cersei Lannister. I'm not sure who a Nick parallel would be... but he kept being played by Matthew McCounaughey in my head. Is that a bad thing?
I think that's a bad thing.
Maybe it's the physical description, the constant mentions of the eternal fratboy douchebag lazy 'golden boy.'
But, OMG, y'all. The ending SUCKS! Guh. I 'get' that the writer no doubt thought that this was a unique turn, but it produces a satisfaction level of nil.
Yes, I'm pedestrian like that. I don't want an ending where I have to think "OMG, that psychopath...
is going to raise a child!"