GONE GIRL (A FORMAT)

Well, this is supposed to be a review of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, but the reality is, I don't have the foggiest idea how to review this novel. It's not what it seems to be, but to be too precise about what it literally is would spoil the entertainment. The only thoughts I have after completing this book are: OH MY! WHATTA BOOK!! 😲 Ms Flynn, the author of "Sharp Objects" and "Dark Places", clearly surpassed herself with this book. Read on to know more about this amazing book and about why I think you should most definitely give it a try! Now, this article is divided into six categories. • Ratings and stuff about the book. • How I got my hands on this book. • Some background of the author. • The synopsis of the book. • About the writing style. •Some intriguing facts about the book. •Ratings and stuff about the book: Rating: Botopsy rating: 5/5✨ Goodreads: 4.1/5 Amazon: 4.2/5 Length of the book: 466 pages long. Genre: Fiction/Thriller-mystery. Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Series: Standalone. Format: Paperback. Source: Amazon. •How I came across this book: I heard a lot about Gillian Flynn and how she turns a simple story into a roller coaster ride. I wanted to try her best work and so I picked this one up, and I must admit that after reading this book, I'm completely dumbfounded! •About the author: Gillian Schieber Flynn ( born February 24, 1971) is an American writer. Flynn has published three novels, Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl,all three of which have been adapted for film or television. Flynn wrote the adaptations for the 2014 Gone Girl film and the HBO limited series Sharp Objects. She was formerly a television critic for Entertainment Weekly. •Synopsis: Gone Girl is sharp, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well imagined that they’re difficult to part with. Here, in this book, we have two main characters- Nick Dunne and Amy Elliott. Nick Dunne is a writer who lost his job in New York City when the magazine he worked for went under. He retreated to North Carthage, the small town in Missouri where he grew up, dragging his wife Amy, who is also a magazine writer. She is is also recently unemployed. Nick is a smart, good-looking guy, with a touch of the golden boy about him. When he moves to Missouri he buys a bar with his twin sister Margo. He gets a job teaching writing at the local junior college. He allows his professional prospects to quietly and gracefully deflate. Amy on the other hand, is a type-A personality, a Harvard grad with definite ideas about Nick's career and her own. "My wife had a brilliant, popping brain, a greedy curiosity," Nick tells us. Amy doesn't fit in in North Carthage, and with no job and no social life to speak of, she's left alone at home to spin her wheels. They spin fast, very fast. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick leaves the house after breakfast. He heads to work. While he is gone, Amy disappears into thin air. The journey that progresses to find the gone girl herself is maddeningly twisted, to say the least. It almost requires a game board to show how Nick and Amy move through this book. They met at a party in Brooklyn and were momentarily smitten. After they get married Nick lost his job. So they had to move back to Nick’s hometown, North Carthage, which Amy hated. In Missouri, they had the kinds of fights, infidelity, money troubles and other noir-style problems that witnesses will remember now that Amy’s gone. (Nick, go to jail.) Nick has a secret life that did not involve Amy. On the morning she vanished, he was off doing something that he is deeply ashamed of, and it is not revealed until late in the novel. Ms Flynn’s idea for Nick’s biggest secret will be, for some readers, the most startling detail in a book that is full of terrific little touches. 😉 Nick’s narrative begins the book, and it illustrates how many different ways there are to disassemble. Like many a less clever unreliable narrator, Nick likes lies of omission. The reader has to figure this out very gradually because Ms Flynn is impressively cagey about which details she chooses to withhold. The invisible Amy can talk only about her past behaviour. She began keeping the diary in 2005, and it describes the marriage as an emotional roller coaster. Even when the fights began, Amy went to elaborate efforts to be cheerful and boost her husband’s spirits, but she grew more and more worried as the marriage spiralled downward. And then the police show up. And Nick begins to lie. Not that Nick killed his wife. He's just a compulsive liar, one of those people whose deepest instinct isn't, to tell the truth; it's to tell people what he thinks they want to hear, except that he usually guesses wrong. But, when the police start unravelling his inventions, he starts to look like a bad guy. He looks worse when Amy's diary surfaces, detailing the deterioration of their marriage and Nick's increasingly volatile behaviour. So, Did Amy die?, who killed her, is it Nick?, What secret life did Nick had? To get the answers to the above-mentioned questions you have to read the book. Gone Girl begins as a whodunit, but by the end, it will have you wondering whether there's any such thing as a who at all. Gone Girl is a story about men and women who live double lives not because they're secret agents or jewel thieves but because as human beings they're incapable of being who they appear to be. Overall, the book is an incredible thriller. A must-read even for those who are not thriller fans. I bet you would become one. 😉 •Writing style: Gillian Flynn’s greatest strength as an author lies in her ability to change the way her readers perceive her protagonists. The writing is smart, witty and appalling. The portrayal of characters is sharp and intensive. There is so much to say about the lead female character Amy and how she pulls the readers towards her. Not to mention, the 'cool girl monologue' is on point, perfectly describes the kind of woman almost every man is looking for. The imaginative, fictional character that they desire to have for a lifetime. •Intriguing facts: 1. When Flynn was drafting Gone Girl, main character Amy's family's business was originally a dating service. The oh-so-perfect "Amazing Amy" idea only came later. 2. Flynn wrote the screenplay of the movie version of Gone Girl, which is produced by Reese Witherspoon. Which was further nominated for Golden Globe and Bafta. 3. Flynn has said that she was inspired to write the novel by the disappearance of Californian Laci Peterson in late 2002.

Amy is a woman on the wrong side of 30s and married to Nick Dunne. She is raised in a family of psychologist parents, who happen to be the creators of a character “Amazing Amy” in a book by the same name. Amazing Amy is always amazing as the name suggests. She has no chance to be less than perfect. The book series is very popular with the kids and people in general, but the Amy at home has a constant companion to compare herself to and proving to her to be a lesser mortal, always. The whole comparison reflects and colours Amy’s relations with friends at school and her social life as she grows up. Even so, Amy is vivacious, blond and has a figure to kill. She is older than Nick and has developed a complex of nearing 40 and a fear of losing her husband’s attention as she is getting old. Amy is rich too and has funds in the form of royalty, her parents keep in her name from the Amazing Amy series. Amy develops an unsatiating drive to be loved, admired and put on the pedestal by people who enter her life and that love and admiration has to be in increasing order at each occasion and encounter. If those in her life err in their duties to love and admire her, she doles out punishments to them.The punishments could be anything from accusations of stalking, to attempting to commit suicide for her love, to raping to even framing the other person for her own murder. Amy has grown up to be sociopath who can kill and die if she wishes to get her way with people. Nick is a writer for a magazine and has been laid off. He brings Amy to his hometown, Carthage and starts a bar by the name “The Bar”, in partnership with his twin sister, Margo( whom everyone calls Go) using money borrowed from Amy. They leave behind a life in New york against Amy’s wish. The twins are very close and “The Bar”, keeps them barely afloat in the face of a financial crises. In the backdrop are Nick’s mother who has terminal cancer and father who has Alzheimer's. Nick’s parents are divorced and his father has always been a woman hater which Nick despises and never wants to follow. Carthage is decrepit, ghost of a town after the economic meltdown. The guilt of failure and inexhaustible demands of his wife to demonstrate his love for her, makes him get entangled in an affair with Andie, his student. On their 5th wedding anniversary, Amy disappears from their house leaving behind clues for a treasure hunt. A treasure hunt is their private anniversary ritual, that leads to Nick’s anniversary present. Nick actually hates the treasure hunt and a constant need to prove his love and commitment to Amy. The clues for the treasure hunt are verses that are relevant to some private jokes between Nick and Amy during their good times and also relevant to places where Nick deceived Amy and made love to Andie. What follows after the disappearance of Amy is a high tension drama that touches the personal, psychological, social and the legal levels. It pictures the media with its sometimes imbecile and at times, ugly nuances. The media that has to do little with the actual case at hand and has its own agendas to prove that serve the anchors of the shows. It presents to us the wave as it travels with troughs and peaks of public sympathy, uproar and outrage, the lawyer who is there to outsmart but who is dismissed as plain inadequate by the catch of the net thrown by the very scheming and plotting Amy, the baffled police and a completely destroyed Nick awaiting his own arrest. Nick, who is a boy next door with his own weaknesses and shortcomings and has only an expectation of a normal life with a wife and a baby of his own.The people who have their fingers burnt in association with Amy are crying hoarse about their experiences but their voices get drowned in the popularity of the book. Nick has now two ways, either get arrested eventually because the noose that Amy has thrown becomes tighter and tighter every day or apologise in front of the public and pray publically for her return. He also has to think what he would do if his wife who had planted clues to frame him for her murder, returns. Gone girl is a brilliant account of how private events between two people can be manipulated to the person’s convenience and are so open to be interpreted by the two people. Nick and Amy both write their individual accounts of the events on Amy’s return after she disappears, as “Amazing” and “ Psycho Bitch”, respectively. It is book about how a sociopath takes advantage of people's emotions to suit their purpose. They are tigers on a prowl, ready to pounce at the slightest clue of the commitment of a mistake. Actually sociopaths are in one sided love with themselves. They love and hate themselves equally.They create darkness in the lives of people around them that imprisons them as Amy has imprisoned Nick in the darkness as long as they live. The book is long and yet nothing seems boring or lengthy or extra. It just steadily builds its tempo and keeps you in its grips.

This is fab book. The story is binge worthy, can be addictive at times. Please read that this is A format book which means it will be smaller than usual novels. Other than that book is legit, accurate printing.

Gone Girl , pen down by Gillian Flynn is a terrific read which walk the reader with some awful , bitter truths about marriage life . Writing is so gripping that the reader just ensconced him/herself in his/her chair , with eyes glued to the plot and fingers turning the pages in reflex mode . Every Flip of page , ballooned the grip and makes the reader go through the book as its the last book to read of his/her life . Whole plot is briefed by both the Protagonist . Plot danced around two writers Nicholas Dunne and Amy Elliot Dunne who lived in in New york but the recession sweep their jobs , leaving 'em unemployed . Nicholas Dunne is portrayed as a writer who wrote about Tv & Books & Movies in magazine and with Internet rolling out steadily crushes the career of Magazine Writers , Nick one of them .He's shown fibbing like a little boy who's desperate to have everyone think he's perfect and so is a glib liar. Amy Elliot , met Nick in a party where they fell for each other , is written as a girl with an explanation for everything . She sever nick to play a happy hubby role & loved to play old testament god when she's not happy . Everything goes well in initial as a happy-romantic story but turned into a stromy thriller as on the morning of their 5th wedding anniversary , Amy ( As name suggest Gone Girl) got missing and as Police investigation rolled out , Nick flagged up as the main suspect .Blood Mopped out from the Kitchen floor , a half burned Amy's Diary , Nick's Computer examination by police and many other leads staged Nick as the Prime suspect of the crime . Not just with passing chapter , Plot takes a complete U-Turn with Andie's entry who could possibly act as an antidote turned just opposite of it. Every Passing chapter left a chill and addiction to read next and so on .I think the End part makes the reader realise how much worth & fun-reading this fiction is . Author embedded the inspiring relation between Nick and his twin sister Margo who stays with him in his very thick and thin . Margo is portrayed as the sister who love her brother unconditionally and supports him . Beside , Author has explained how some constituents like Patience , Planning and ingenuity can easily make any mission accomplished . As a critic , author has flagged the amateurish Electronic media shows which labelled any suspect as a criminal , used words as just to elevate their TRPs . And most importantly how much threatful as psychopath is . The flawless and gripping plot of Gone Girl whaled on me with a hammer until I finished the book . And I think every guy after wrapping up with this book wishes his gf/wife had or will never read this .

perfect, enthralling read !! the item was shipped in quite a few days and fast, although there are a few dents and small folds on pages, Gillian's novel here is something to look forward too! Amazing read.

Wow what a well crafted plot and superb narrative style. Gone Girl hooked me from the first page and I read it in one go. A perfect domestic thriller with the themes of a disintegrating marriage, greed, murder. Who should be believed and who should not, till what extent can a person go to get what they want...kept on haunting me long after I had finished reading it. Strongly recommended and five stars for me.

The book is smaller than I expected it to be. (No damages )

‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn is one of the most popular and well known books in the thriller genre and it deserves all the praise it gets.The books is unimaginably riveting,absorbing the reader into the story with the first few pages.It captures the horrors of human psychology with great depth and detail while also providing a fascinating story which attracts the reader like a magnet.It is conspicuous that this book has to be amongst the top crime thrillers of this generation.I implore you to read it and relish this phenomenal story.