sarahh56 wrote:I have had this to read for a while, but the comments above echo what I have read on other sites I am not sure that I will bother now!
One more person's opinion, mine.
Gone Girl is excellent: extraordinarily insightful into relationships and contemporary culture, and how our genetic coding and culture presses down on us to make the decisions we make, good or bad. The novel also is an absorbingly compelling reading experience - the pages fly by - and the reader must pace him or her self so as not to miss the many nuggets strewn throughout the text.
The ending struck me too as a bit of a letdown. It seemed a bolt of blue from nowhere, as though Gillian had painted herself into a corner and could discover no way out. But that was my initial reaction. The more I thought about it, the more I realized the ending comports with what came before it. To say more would reveal too much. So leave it at this...
Gone Girl has already spawned a mini Cottage Industry of novels with similar structure, and might just be one of those rare contemporary novels that endure beyond the season, one for which future (Literature) students study. Read the first few pages, and if not hooked, then proceed to the next book on your pile. I suspect you will continue, though, as
Gone Girl holds something for every reader.
