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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
Solid, good story, interesting plot and I enjoyed the unreliable narrator thing going on, even though it did not serve to actually make what was really happening a mystery. Still a fun listen and already started on another one of these by same author.
dark
mysterious
tense
I went to see this in the theaters with my aunt and uncle. That was interesting, let me tell you. After that a friend told me I'd still find the book a good page turning beachie read. And I did. It was still highly enjoyable and suspenseful even with seeing the movie first.
I would rate this book a 2.5 on a scale of 5. Although it isn't my favorite novel by Gillian Flynn it was a good debut novel. It was a lot darker than her most recent novel, Gone Girl, and I enjoyed that about this book. I just felt like there was something missing from the story.
it's such an honour to read something that is so viscerally uncomfortable and so successful as a horror/thriller/mystery. i thought the conclusion was a bit rushed but i read the whole book rather quickly so that might just be my perception.
It takes some masterful writing to keep a reader engaged in a story with two incredibly, INCREDIBLY, unlikeable main characters. I took the star off because the characters were INCREDIBLY unlikeable. But I read their entire damn story.
On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick comes home to find his wife, Amy, has disappeared. All the evidence suggests he killed her. And he doesn't do himself many favors - he's strangely calm and unnerved by the disappearance. Entries from Amy's diary tell a tale of two people falling in love, and then her husband becoming less and less worthy of that love.
Or course, it would be too easy if Nick had killed her. It would be too easy for her to be dead at all. So she's not. And that's where things go all bat-shit crazy and the reader gets sucked in.
I was very weary throughout the first half of the book. I knew Nick hadn't done anything to his wife, but only because, like I said above - it would have been too easy. Yet, he was so unlikeable. I practically hated him. And Amy. The pictures of Amy that Nick painted and that Amy's diary painted were of 2 different people. And I didn't like either of them. So I found it hard to stick with the book because I wanted to see what the twist ending was I'd been hearing so much about.
About three-fourths of the way through the book, I couldn't put it down. I've spent the past 3 hours finishing it. I wanted to see what the crazy psycho characters were going to do to each other, how it would play out. By that time I had no clue how the author was going to end it, but I don't think I'd call the ending a twist. I think it was very appropriate for how f***ed up the characters were, though.
On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick comes home to find his wife, Amy, has disappeared. All the evidence suggests he killed her. And he doesn't do himself many favors - he's strangely calm and unnerved by the disappearance. Entries from Amy's diary tell a tale of two people falling in love, and then her husband becoming less and less worthy of that love.
Or course, it would be too easy if Nick had killed her. It would be too easy for her to be dead at all. So she's not. And that's where things go all bat-shit crazy and the reader gets sucked in.
I was very weary throughout the first half of the book. I knew Nick hadn't done anything to his wife, but only because, like I said above - it would have been too easy. Yet, he was so unlikeable. I practically hated him. And Amy. The pictures of Amy that Nick painted and that Amy's diary painted were of 2 different people. And I didn't like either of them. So I found it hard to stick with the book because I wanted to see what the twist ending was I'd been hearing so much about.
About three-fourths of the way through the book, I couldn't put it down. I've spent the past 3 hours finishing it. I wanted to see what the crazy psycho characters were going to do to each other, how it would play out. By that time I had no clue how the author was going to end it, but I don't think I'd call the ending a twist. I think it was very appropriate for how f***ed up the characters were, though.
Resented Whiny Asshole marries Bat Shit Crazy Girl and everything goes from bad to what the fuck is this fuckery, oh my god, who are we?
Blurb: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media--as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents--the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter--but is he really a killer?
As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
Alright, this is a book I wanted to read for a while and I'm happy I finally did it.
When I started the book, I got bored quite quickly. I had a really hard time getting through the first half of the book. Nick Dunne is an absolutely boring person. I swear, that man could narrate my favorite book
Here you have Nick, a middle class writter who is extremely insecure, such a resented man who, when doesn't get his way, start whining like a little boy or do completely the opposite and cage himself, making everyone else the villain.
It is safe to say that I did not like Nick whatsoever and I was
That doesn't make Amy right at all, you know?
Even though I knew before I started reading the book how things were and how crazy she was, I didn't see any of that coming.
Diary Amy fooled me completly.
Amy fooled me in any possible way.
I have never read such a twisted character in my whole life. She was vicious, vengative, brilliant, scary, patient, one hell of an actress... I mean, you gotta admit that she was the fucking star of the book.
I'm not ashamed to say I loved reading what Amy was thinking, what she wanted us to think. Her POVs were vivid, raw, poetic and just insane.
All that precision, all that hate.
I mean, Amy is not even a person. She's full of blank canvas. She doesn't know who she is nor what she wants to be.
I found it hilarious that she thinks of herself so self-capable but, without people all the people she hates, she would not exist at all. She would have killed herself long ago. Trying to be different people was what she did and she can't be them just for her alone.
Nick and Amy as a couple were really off. From the begining. Why? Because they married to the idea of themselves. This marriage went completely wrong in every single way.
This in one of those rare books where I don't like a single character or I don't care enough for them.
Do I like Nick? Fuck no. The man loves feeling sorry for himself and thinks he can be forgiven for everything he does and he also loves making excuses for his acts. "Oh, did I come home late? I had lots of things to do yada yada" "Oh, did I cheat on my wife? She was acting weird and I didn't have the balls to leave her." "Oh, my life's going down hill? Well, that's not actually my fault..."
Do I like Amy? Fuck no. The woman was fucking insane. Granted, she was a genius but she is someone I rather never meet. Nope. I don't even have words for her. She's just fucking insane.
I don't care for Amy's parents, Nick's twin, the whole town... And I don't think I'd been rereading this book any time soon, either but I really liked Gillian's storytelling: it was sharp, smart and pretty great.