Has anyone read Gone Girl (spoilers)

[charminglife]

I just finished it this morning (at my desk - I wasn't going to leave the last few pages for the train this afternoon!) and I feel unsettled by the ending. Has anyone read it? What did you think?

[doxies]

I loved it and I usually don't like those type of endings. It was wonderfully disturbing. I really couldn't put it down.

[charlatti]

I really enjoyed it. I loved how she developed the twist -- I could tell that the main characters' voices were inconsistent, and it was hard to decide whose voice was actually trustworthy. I agree with the "wonderfully disturbing" description.

[bcv513]

I finished it last night and loved it. It was very different and very disturbing.

[er2125]

I finished this about a week ago, I didn't know if I was going to like it when I got started because I didn't find any of the characters to be very relatable. That being said, by the middle of the book things really started to pick up for me, and I think the ending was fitting.

[sporklemotion]

I just read it, too. I liked it because I didn't really know for sure where it was going (though I had my suspicions) until the plot unfolded. I found the ending really unsettling but very fitting, as others have noted.
The only thing that didn't really work for me was Desi's decision to help Amy-- it seemed implausible to me that he would help her given the way she screwed him over when he was in college. I guess he believed her lies about her father's abuse and that's why he didn't doubt her claims that she was scared? It just seemed like all of the other people she'd lied about eventually figured out that she had manipulated them. Maybe I missed something?
I'm reading one of Gillian Flynn's earlier books right now (Dark Places) and that one's pretty good, too. Similar in the shifting viewpoints but a different plot.

[doxies]

Jul 12, 2012 17:00:11 GMT -5 sporklemotion said:

I'm reading one of Gillian Flynn's earlier books right now (Dark Places) and that one's pretty good, too. Similar in the shifting viewpoints but a different plot.

I'm reading Sharp Objects now and it is really good and also disturbing. I'm waiting for Dark Places to be available at the library.

[charminglife]

The way Nick deleted his book at the end really bothered me - I think he needed to keep something, somewhere, on Amy to protect himself AND his child.