2/3 of the way... this is getting really really good.
Gone Girl
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My daughter has kindle. Should I encourage her to read it?
Or is it more like the kinda wisdom that comes from being an old fart with a Gone Girl just gone. With half of everything you worked for.
Speaking of which, I know a young man, age about 30, with a Gone Girl. If what I surmise is all true, it's the ultimate dump I've ever seen go down. Some women can be brutally vicious???
So bad I'd say Gone is a good thing.
I'd be surprised if he can come up caring about another woman inside ten years.
Even my first marriage didn't go down as badly as his. And I did my ten years being a philosopher, too.
All in all, I'm still just sorta skeptical about actually imagining anyone can be counted on, really. Nope, Gone Girl is not the sort of thing I'd go outta my way to read.
Unless it actually involves a girl who has a good reason to be Gone.
Depends how old your daughter is,... LOL... I would say if she is under 25 she's probably too young...
Hope I'm not giving anything away by saying this, but I'm glad I read this before getting married... LOL... I know it's fiction but there seems to be a lot of truth in it. I thought I know something about girls... but I don't... like, AT ALL. It was a bit of a revelation actually...
So if I read it, and got my creative impulses flowing, could I do a book just as good about a Gone Guy?
Hahaha.. yeah I think you could, but you'll have to get close to the edge. Take risks. You'll also have to put yourself in the shoes of a criminal (as well as a whole host of dodgy characters) - could you bring yourself to doing that?????
Haha.. so you've read it then???
I'm a contrarian on the "cool" stuff.
Not to say it doesn't take someone on the "edge" to take me on, just not stupid enough to settle for somebody else's idea of "cool".
Haha.. "cool girl" is sort of an inside joke of the book.
I don't think you'd be interested in a "cool girl" at all actually. Not one bit. You're probably as different to the protagonist as it gets if I'm completely honest witchu.
well, I bet I know some women who'd make the protagonist look like a Sunday School children's teacher. . . . . .
maybe I oughta read the book before I brag.
Hahaha.. you know what I can imagine you rolling your eyes as you turn each page, pondering "well that was far fetched". You could probably write a PhD thesis about "Gone Girl" pointing out things that don't make sense, why they don't make sense, etc, etc.
If you do read the book - I'm gonna guess the character that's most similar to you would probably be Rand Elliott.. LOL ... let me know if I'm right or wrong.
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You don't have to. There is a kindle reader you can download to your desktop for $0. That's what I did.
Just finished the book - thanks bro for suggesting it.
I really loved the first 3/4 of the book. Like, really loved it - couldn't put it down it was so enthralling. But then came the ending chapters... boy was I disappointed. No spoilers here so I won't go into all the details, but I really felt let down. It could have been done much better, a bit of an anti-climax if you ask me. Or may be I had too much expectation? I dunno... would be interested to hear someone else's opinion on this.
I'd heard the movie has a different ending (Flynn also wrote the screen play), got a couple of free tickets so I might check it out this week or next.... let's hope the "new" ending is a bit better though.
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Ya the ending sucked.
I saw the movie and the ending in the movie was basically the same as the book
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Yup.
Basically, the ending sucked but it was still the correct ending.
Really? There are at least 4-5 other ways the ending could have gone down IMO. Unfortunately I can't say them here as they may spoil it for those who hasn't read the book.. but yeah, I can think of at least 4-5 other endings that would have been just as good / exciting if not more.
perfect set-up for a sequel...
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When I read this last summer I too felt a bit let down with the ending. Over the last 15-20 pages or so, I was just waiting for Nick or the female detective to catch her in a lie or think of some way to turn the tides on her. But you can't. That's the whole point. She's thought everything through. Ten times. And backwards, and side-to-side, and frontward again, and then inside out. Amy's come up with every scenario and planned for it. And as I thought about that more, I grew to love the ending. In the movie, I think it used this metaphor with about 30 minutes left. In the book, I think it was on the last page. Amy was a spider. And she wove her web and there was no escaping it. Nick was invariably tied to her. For life.
After seeing the film, I am going to re-read the book. Because a couple things came to mind that I take issue with.
1) At the lakehouse, she fakes having been raped for the cameras, going to the glass wall, having doused her genitals in red wine, screaming bloody murder. If the cameras saw this, wouldn't the other 21 cameras on location catch her then proceeding from there to stage everything? Tying her own wrists up in the bathroom as she did and so forth? Heck, she even told the FBI to look at the cameras. More importantly, wouldn't the FBI take her nightgown and see that it was in fact drenched with red wine along with blood and become curious as to why? Just a thought.
2) Why not divorce her, Nick? I'm a bit fuzzy here from the book. In the book, I thought he couldn't leave her because of the impending child. But as I saw the movie, I feel I misremembered what occurred. She never was prego so why not just divorce her?
3) Why not get the kid who'd had his life destroyed by her testify that she's a ****ing wack job?
And this is why books are so much better than films. The book left no gaps like this for me. Evereything was so well-written and covered (at least I remember thinking that at the time) that there was no way out for Nick.
Other film complaints. It felt rushed. Also, the revelation halfway through that she's alive felt awkward. That was the best part of the book. It hit you like a ton of bricks and felt awesome when you came upon it. In the movie, the transition felt odd. Moreover, the film's depiction that she went south because their marriage went south was overstated imo. Yes, we were left with the impression that she was a ****ed up girl but the movie painted her too much as pretty normal pre-Gone when in actuality, the point was, she was just always ****ed up whether it be in her Amazing Amy-identity/status crisis ways or in relationships. Nick and their ****ty marriage just helped enhance that to the nth degree.
****SPOILERS****
When I read this last summer I too felt a bit let down with the ending. Over the last 15-20 pages or so, I was just waiting for Nick or the female detective to catch her in a lie or think of some way to turn the tides on her. But you can't. That's the whole point. She's thought everything through. Ten times. And backwards, and side-to-side, and frontward again, and then inside out. Amy's come up with every scenario and planned for it. And as I thought about that more, I grew to love the ending. In the movie, I think it used this metaphor with about 30 minutes left. In the book, I think it was on the last page. Amy was a spider. And she wove her web and there was no escaping it. Nick was invariably tied to her. For life.
After seeing the film, I am going to re-read the book. Because a couple things came to mind that I take issue with.
1) At the lakehouse, she fakes having been raped for the cameras, going to the glass wall, having doused her genitals in red wine, screaming bloody murder. If the cameras saw this, wouldn't the other 21 cameras on location catch her then proceeding from there to stage everything? Tying her own wrists up in the bathroom as she did and so forth? Heck, she even told the FBI to look at the cameras. More importantly, wouldn't the FBI take her nightgown and see that it was in fact drenched with red wine along with blood and become curious as to why? Just a thought.
2) Why not divorce her, Nick? I'm a bit fuzzy here from the book. In the book, I thought he couldn't leave her because of the impending child. But as I saw the movie, I feel I misremembered what occurred. She never was prego so why not just divorce her?
3) Why not get the kid who'd had his life destroyed by her testify that she's a ****ing wack job?
And this is why books are so much better than films. The book left no gaps like this for me. Evereything was so well-written and covered (at least I remember thinking that at the time) that there was no way out for Nick.
Other film complaints. It felt rushed. Also, the revelation halfway through that she's alive felt awkward. That was the best part of the book. It hit you like a ton of bricks and felt awesome when you came upon it. In the movie, the transition felt odd. Moreover, the film's depiction that she went south because their marriage went south was overstated imo. Yes, we were left with the impression that she was a ****ed up girl but the movie painted her too much as pretty normal pre-Gone when in actuality, the point was, she was just always ****ed up whether it be in her Amazing Amy-identity/status crisis ways or in relationships. Nick and their ****ty marriage just helped enhance that to the nth degree.
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The problem I have with the ending isn't so much the logic of it all. Yeah she thought of everything, I got that. But I felt the book needed another "twist" if you'd like. Something we didn't see coming. Something that's been there all along but we haven't yet noticed. The twist half way through the book like you mentioned was GREAT. It did hit me like a ton of brick too. But after that I just felt like the writer kept building it, building it, building it, to a magnificent ending - but there was nothing. It was a bit of a let down.
Also at the end I thought the writer could have involved Nick a bit more. He basically sat on his hands and got what he wanted handed to him when she turned up on his door step. May be 1 final piece of evidence that got him & Go moving in one last ditch to search for her, ending with him rescuing her off the bank of the Mississippi River or something dramatic like that.