Gone Girl

Page Turner Tuesday: Life In A Larger Story's book club 2016. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. Have you read it? Seen it? I listened to it on audio book. This page-turner kept me engaged. Gone Girl is definitely rated R for subject matter. I had to be sure my kids weren't around when I was listening to it. There is no way I want to see the movie. The book was enough. 

 

I started out thinking it was a nice twisted break from reality. The further I got into it the more I despised it. It was written in such a clever way that I didn't want to quit, but I didn't like it. It was just entertainment, gluttonous, disgusting entertainment.

The detail in the book is colorful. There seems to be four adjectives for every noun and verb. Which makes a very descriptive picture of a disturbing story. It keeps you guessing who did it. I am not sure I even cared how it ended. I just wanted it to be over. Gillian Flynn had a very creative style of storytelling. She tells the story from two perspectives starting at different points of time, so you are waiting for the two perspectives to catch up to the other so you can put the story together. It's clever. It's disturbing. It's over and I'm glad.