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Gone Girl
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bookshelves: mysteries, 21st-century-american-lit, abuse-and-trauma, favorites
Jul 09, 2012
bookshelves: mysteries, 21st-century-american-lit, abuse-and-trauma, favorites
Twitter review: Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl is brilliant & terrifying, constructed of beautiful writing & ugly characters, filled w/ lies but painfully true.
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This book has passages in it that make me want to read them out loud to someone, to share their brilliance and beauty, but the story and the characters are ugly and fucked-up. This story is a masterful portrait of manipulation and abuse and it thoroughly creeped me out.
Highly recommended, but tread carefully if you have any kind of history with emotional abuse. I expect violence and upsetting material from mysteries, but because this is so well-written, it is able to get to the heart of certain patterns of behavior and may have an even deeper impact than usual. It did for me.
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This book has passages in it that make me want to read them out loud to someone, to share their brilliance and beauty, but the story and the characters are ugly and fucked-up. This story is a masterful portrait of manipulation and abuse and it thoroughly creeped me out.
Highly recommended, but tread carefully if you have any kind of history with emotional abuse. I expect violence and upsetting material from mysteries, but because this is so well-written, it is able to get to the heart of certain patterns of behavior and may have an even deeper impact than usual. It did for me.
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Reading Progress
July 9, 2012
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Started Reading
July 9, 2012
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July 9, 2012
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mysteries
July 9, 2012
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21st-century-american-lit
July 9, 2012
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abuse-and-trauma
July 9, 2012
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Finished Reading
December 17, 2012
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