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A review by rozenaut
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2.0
Oh. My. Lord. This is about two incredibly toxic people in an incredibly toxic relationship. It was painful to read. They've turned THIS into a movie?
There is no one to root for. No protagonist. Everyone is awful.
Nick is a crummy dude. I hate him all through the first half of the book, as I'm meant to. Later on I don't have quite the same level of hate I did before, though he's still fairly high on my shit list.
I softened toward him just the tiniest, microscopic bit when it was revealed how freaking psychotic Amy actually is. Oh my God.
Weaved into all of the misogyny and mental dysfunction is the constant dirty language. I'm no prude - I can handle bad language. But the DIRTY, sexual language every other sentence was fatiguing. Folks in the entertainment industry seem to think we like that stuff, but honestly, I don't think any of us actually do.
Only two things kept me reading until the end.
1. I'm an insane completionist and hate not finishing a book.
2. I wanted to see SOMEBODY get what they deserved, especially Amy, but that wasn't going to happen. She gets herself pregnant in order to secure Nick as her prisoner forever. La la la, Amy wins, the end. Seriously, that's where the book ends.
Who can I talk to about getting the last week of my life back?
There is no one to root for. No protagonist. Everyone is awful.
Nick is a crummy dude. I hate him all through the first half of the book, as I'm meant to. Later on I don't have quite the same level of hate I did before, though he's still fairly high on my shit list.
I softened toward him just the tiniest, microscopic bit when it was revealed how freaking psychotic Amy actually is. Oh my God.
Weaved into all of the misogyny and mental dysfunction is the constant dirty language. I'm no prude - I can handle bad language. But the DIRTY, sexual language every other sentence was fatiguing. Folks in the entertainment industry seem to think we like that stuff, but honestly, I don't think any of us actually do.
Only two things kept me reading until the end.
1. I'm an insane completionist and hate not finishing a book.
2. I wanted to see SOMEBODY get what they deserved, especially Amy, but that wasn't going to happen. She gets herself pregnant in order to secure Nick as her prisoner forever. La la la, Amy wins, the end. Seriously, that's where the book ends.
Who can I talk to about getting the last week of my life back?