Fiction Books. Crime, Mystery and Thriller Books. Enter pincode. Usually delivered in 3 days? Flynn Gillian. Summary of the Book In Gone Girl , the reader will find that the narration alternates between Nick and Amy for the first half of the story. About Gillian Flynn Gillian Flynn is an author, screenwriter, comic book writer and former television critic. Frequently Bought Together.
Gone Girl. Before I Go To Sleep. To Kill a Mockingbird. Add 3 Items to Cart. Rate Product. I got a pirated copy of the book and was very disappointed with its quality. Delivery was prompt and with proper packaging. So was the return. Book Review - Engaging and anyone who is into thrillers would like this book. Just don't buy it from This seller! Neha Naik Certified Buyer , Bangalore. I started reading this book and got hooked to it, just could not stop. The book is divided in 3 sections called Books and the first one was extremely captivating.
I just loved it. It starts with giving out both views - from the husband as it happens and the wife by way of diary entries. A very different and exciting way to narrate the story of a wife gone missing. The second section of the Book clears out the hidden pieces and discloses the mystery a little bit, while still holding yo Nidhi Certified Buyer.
That's the rule, everyone say so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions The beginning put you in thinking that if everything was perfect then why Amy left or someone kidnapped her well, that's the matter of thinking. Some of the part thrill me like anything, i was jaw dropping stunned that this is not what i was expecting I am used to Ms Flynn giving me the dregs of society, the lowlifes and the majorly-troubled, giving me characters with genuine reasons to complain about life.
Spoilt, rich people do not pull at my heartstrings. But, objectively , this is a really great book. Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr. In my mind, any book that takes me 3 months and 20 different tries to read is not worth 3 i-liked-it on Goodreads stars, especially a book written by an author I already respect. Amy Dunn disappears on the day of her 5th wedding anniversary. All gradually uncovered evidence suggests that her husband, Nick, is somehow involved.
Did he kill her? Was she kidnapped? What happened to Amy? One thing is clear, Nick and Amy's marriage wasn't as perfect as everybody thought. The first part of the novel is all about the investigation into Amy's disappearance, slow unraveling of Nick's dirty secrets, reminiscing about the troubled history of Nick and Amy's marriage as told in Amy's hidden diary. I strained and strained my brain trying to understand why this chunk of Gone Girl had no appeal to me whatsoever.
The only answer I have is this: I am really not into reading about rich white people's problems. You want to whine to me about your dwindling trust fund? Losing your cushy New York job? Moving south and "only" renting a mansion there? Being unhappy because you have too much free time on your hands and you are used to only work as a hobby? You want to make fun of your lowly, un-posh neighbors and their casseroles? Well, I am not interested. I'd rather read about someone not necessarily likable, but at least worthy of my empathy, not waste my time on self-centered, spoiled, pathetic people who don't know what real problems are.
Granted, characters in Flynn's previous novels Sharp Objects and Dark Places are pretty pathetic and and at times revolting too, but I always felt some strange empathy towards them, not annoyance and boredom, like I felt reading about Amy and Nick's marriage woes. But then second part, with its wicked twist, changed everything. The story became much more exciting, dangerous and deranged.
The main characters revealed sides to them that were quite shocking and VERY entertaining. I thought the Gillian Flynn I knew before finally unleashed her talent for writing utterly unlikable and crafty women. Was it too little too late though? I think it was. Something needed to be done to make Gone Girl a better read.
Make it shorter? Cut out first part completely? I don't know. But because of my uneven experience with this novel I won't be able to recommend Gone Girl as readily as I did Flynn's earlier novels, even though I think this horror marriage story it's not a true mystery, IMO has some brilliantly written psycho goodness in it and an absolutely messed up ending that many loathed but I LOVED.
I wish it didn't take so much time and patience to get to all of that Paul Bryant. You may have been given them to read in school, and you may have puked on them. I forgot to mention that I have a perfect figure and everybody wants to be my friend. I lived in New York but because I got let go now I have to live with my husband in one of those other states. I forgot its name. Is that a word? Hey, it is now. I got let go from my job in New York as a writer — yeah, I know.
Oh where oh where can she be? Did I say she like just disappeared and shit? Kidnapped by aliens. And ate her. Amy killed Nick and is pulling off a fabulous feat of transgender impersonation until page when all will be revealed. And ate him. There never was an Amy. Pretty deep, that one. There wasn't a hero; in fact, everyone in it was kind of horrible, and it wasn't like the novels she had written before.
Flynn's first two books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places , were straightforward mysteries that did modestly well, so that, she says, everyone assumed this one "would build a little on that, and that would be great". In the event, Gone Girl entered the New York Times bestseller list the week it was published, rising to No 1 the following week and selling around two million copies in the first year, beaten only by the likes of 50 Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games.
The film has been released this past week and Flynn has gone through the same process of expectation management. The day we meet, in a hotel in Chicago, Flynn is two weeks away from giving birth to her second child, has just moved house, and is engaged in the buildup to the release of Gone Girl , a confluence of stresses she is trying to see as a virtue. A crazy moment to look back on and laugh about.
Flynn grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and went to graduate school in Chicago, where she returned after years of working as a journalist in New York and LA. It had everything I loved about New York, but on a more chilled-out scale.
The midwestern setting of Flynn's novels is a big part of their draw, the dingy rural towns and endless gothic planes of Truman Capote's "out there" giving a sense, simultaneously, of too much and not enough space. Given that her books fall into the oft-dismissed category of genre fiction, Flynn has had extraordinary critical success with Gone Girl , which was reviewed positively in the literary press and named by the New York Times as a book of the year.
Her writing is sharp, acute, with social observations and convincing relationships that outweigh the sometimes outlandish plot turns and overboiled symbolism. In Sharp Objects the heroine Camille spent her childhood carving words into her body, before growing up to be — yes — a tortured writer. In Gone Girl , the sourness of the marriage between the protagonists, depicted in fights about whether the sofa he loves is, as she believes, actually hideous, is a deeply convincing account of a terrible relationship and the real reason for the book's success.
How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Nick is from a midwestern background similar to Flynn's and feels judged and condescended to by his wealthy and sophisticated New Yorker wife.
After she loses her trust fund they return to the midwest to open a bar, bringing with them their big-city snobbery — hers innate, his adopted. Not meta -get. She would never have reached this level of execution, she says, if she hadn't had 15 or so years of working in journalism and learning to scrap extraneous words.
While at Entertainment Weekly, where she wrote about film before becoming the television critic, she would see her many-thousand word articles hacked down when a page lost its advertising.
You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious. This attitude extends to how she treats her characters. One of the appeals of Flynn's writing is how willing she is to make every single person in a novel unsympathetic; dastardly, even.
In Dark Places the heroine, Libby, is a bitter, cynical twentysomething, who as a child was the sole survivor of a family massacre and who regards everyone around her with ferocious disdain. A typical pen portrait of someone wandering across Libby's critical gaze: "she was somewhere north of 50, with dark, darting eyes that bulged out of a bony face" and "the shiny coating of someone on too many pills".
There can, occasionally, be something flat and humourless abut Flynn's writing, the sharpness turning sour with a sense that she despises the people she's writing about.
But she is never less than compelling. Flynn says it's just a case of keeping herself interested. Her first reader is always her husband, a lawyer: they met at college but only got together after she returned to Chicago in her mids. His opinion has turned around projects that were destined to fail. Libby, for example, started out in Dark Places as a nice, sunny girl with lots of friends. So I wrote this entire first draft in which Libby was church-going and really stable.
It didn't work at all. When I gave it to my husband, I knew it was going to be bad because he was like, OK, you want to talk about Dark Places now? Shall we open a bottle? S harp Objects had also gone through several stages. Flynn started and abandoned many novels over the years before hitting on the idea of writing about a journalist covering a gruesome story in her home town. She had a vague idea that she wanted to write about female violence.
I felt like that wasn't there as much for women, and I was very interested in it. Her novels are so dark that readers often ask about Flynn's own background. Her mother once stood at the back of a bookstore after a reading and made frantic gestures at Flynn when a member of the audience asked whether she came from a bad family.
In fact, her upbringing was happy and healthy. Her father taught film and theatre at junior college and her mother was a teacher; they still live in the house where Flynn and her older brother grew up. She was a little shy as a child, a big reader who loved movies as much as books and thought from an early age that she would be a writer.
Flynn did her undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas and, by her own admission, "came to New York with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.
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