The novel soon made the new york times best seller list. To ask other readers questions about gone girl, please sign up. Nonetheless, its filled with psychologically complex characters, lots of subplots, and tons of important detailsso dont zone out, blink, or skim passages, because you very well might miss something. Dont judge a book by its cover instead, try and wait for the last line. There isnt a moment in the entire novel that the female protagonist of amy isnt. The novel became quite popular and soon made the new york times best seller list. She then forces him to delete his book by threatening to keep him from their unborn child. A character in one of jess walters novels says, a book can only end one. Through her two ultimately unreliable narrators, flynn masterfully weaves the slow trickle of critical details with 90degree plot turns. Wild swans, weve scoured the stylist book shelf for the best closing lines or. Being the cool girl means i am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like shes hosting the worlds biggest culinary gang bang while. Id arrived in new york in the late 90s, the last gasp of the glory days, although no one knew it then. Gone girl is a thriller novel in the mystery and crime genres, by the american writer gillian flynn. Like gone girl, luckiest girl alive tells the story with a series of flashbacks that shed light on the characters present situations.
It also didnt help matters that i figured out the ending before page 100. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl. The film concludes with amy and nick going on television to announce amys pregnancy, as opposed to in the book, when its a more private matter. Given the controversy already surrounding the twisted conclusion in the bestselling book some love it, some want to set it on fire, author gillian flynn did not have an easy task in front of her when she adapted the screenplay. While amy starts off innocent, the protagonist of luckiest girl alive is the opposite.
Men always say that as the defining compliment, dont they. Earlier this year, many fans of gillian flynns 2012 thriller gone girl were dismayed to learn that the author had changed the storys ending. In this exclusive selection from the books opening, we meet nick and amy. Ive never thought that any type of book should have to end in a certain way. The 23 most unforgettable last sentences in fiction washington post. The differences between the ending of gone girl, the film, and gone girl, the book, are miniscule. The books title is not the only similarity to last summers bestselling drama gone girl. Every building downtown bears handdrawn lines from where the river hit. I finished the book in two days, and i was sad to see it end.
Dont judge a book by its cover instead, try and wait for the last line following our massively popular and lovingly selected list of the 100 best opening lines from books, its now time. Gone girl is a thriller novel by the writer gillian flynn. It was published by crown publishing group in june 2012. Why gone girl is one of the best novels of the decade medium. Oh, my girls, however long you may live, i never can wish you a greater happiness than this. The novels suspense comes from the main character, nick dunne, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife. Its just that there are so many stories to choose from, which you already know if you, like millions of other readers, rapidly inhaled novels like gone girl and the girl on the train over the. In these lines, not only does nicks voice clearly come through in. A people magazine best book of the year new york times janet maslins 10 favorite books of 2012. Gone girl tells the story of a frustrated housewife who fakes her death and.
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