Refinished Mo 3/17/25
This is one of my ancient trade paperbacks that I had read (and loved) a couple of times. The movie is even excellent.
A classic tale of 'unreliable narrators'. Is 'Amazing Amy' the true villian or is it her hapless husband, Nick?
In the end they are both trapped in a loveless marriage, but they get to 'act the part'. Maybe that will be good enough.
From The Guardian:
"Gone Girl packs a winning formula, by frightening, enchanting, disturbing and intriguing its readers all at once. Gillian Flynn, with this novel, has proven that she deserves to be crowned the Queen of plot twists. Although this is a book that takes its own sweet time to pick up the pace and become the juicy thriller you go in anticipating, it’s definitely worth the wait and the bored page turning.
Flynn creates the most bizarre, complex characters (a large majority of which seem to have escaped from asylums for the mentally insane) that bounce off the page and seem so scarily real. What is arguably Gillian Flynn’s greatest strength as an author lies in her ability to change the way her readers perceive her protagonists. Taking one of the main characters, Nick, as an example – I started off by feeling sorry for his unemployment and empathised with his panic and fear as his wife goes missing, went on to loathe him from the bottom of my heart and towards the end of the novel, feel absolutely terrible for him, because he lives in a prison he cannot escape from. The technique used by the author, in telling the story from multiple narratives, is both a clever and wickedly effective one; the novel wouldn’t have been worth half of what it is had it been told from the perspective of only one of the two protagonists."
Link to the book's page at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)
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