Sunday, December 30, 2012

Gone Girl: Maybe I should have read a book about a puppy tea party


This is a hard one for me to write about just now, due to personal things in my personal life. I should also note that my copy of the book is at the bottom of a box right now, so I shan't be providing you any excerpts. But you don't need details anyway. In fact, a hex on details . . . because the less you know the better with this one.

But let's first address the depressed elephant in the room---sans details, of course. Some of you may have noticed that I've been sad on Twitter lately, which is the equivalent of standing in a crowd of cheerful, clever people and sighing dramatically until someone offers you a cookie and politely asks you to run along and refill the chip bowl. So I'm sorry about all that dramatic sighing. Also, I can't promise there won't be more. Also, we're out of barbecue chips.


But about Gone Girl. As I'm sure you've gathered, it's a cheerful romp through the wondrous institution of marriage. In a nutshell.

So Nick and Amy are the marrieds, and they've been having run-of-the-mill married-people trouble following a few unpleasant life changes (i.e., losing their jobs, moving from a big city to a small town, dealing with illness and death in the family, and so on and so forth). But then Amy goes MISSING. And an ottoman has been overturned, suggesting FOUL PLAY.



But that's clearly not the end of the story. And said story unfolds within a narrative that switches back and forth between Nick's and Amy's perspectives, showing just how very little two people can know about each other when they think they know everything about each other. It's every bit as delicious as everyone says . . . even though I can't look at the cover without sighing dramatically.

Is it next year yet?

15 comments:

  1. I just read Gone Girl and I felt a little bit... Not 'meh' exactly, but like not as SHOCKED or EXCITED as I could have been because of the things I read about it beforehand.

    Having said that, I did read it in about 3 long sittings, so... I guess it wasn't that bad! *MASSIVELY HUGS YOU WITH ALL THE HUGS*

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  2. That's EXACTLY how I felt! It's the curse of being among the last to read That Book That Everyone Has Been Raving About for Ages. Our expectations, they were too high.



    *Soaks up all the hugs and never tires of them ever*

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  3. I want to read this one but I am so afraid of this "meh" ness happening because expectations, they are high.

    *ALL THE HUGS* You be George Michael/Snoopy music sad as long as you need and know that we are here for yoooou

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  4. Awww, I totally suck as a blogger friend because I've been away for so long. Let me know if there's anything I can do, like get more barbecue chips for you, but in the meantime, I'm around :) New year, new start, and I wish you all the best!

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  5. Maybe if you wait for the excitement to die down a little...like you did with Gone With the Wind. OH WAIT. The excitement over Gone With the Wind NEVER DIES DOWN AND YOU NEED TO READ IT RIGHT NOW.

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  6. You do NOT suck as an anything friend. You have a life, and it is busy. *munches happily on barbecue chips*

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  7. Gone Girl: Not so great when you have the sads. You are wonderful, though, and I like your face. All the lady blogger love for you.

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  8. *squuuueeeeeezes you*

    P.S. Did you get your Christmas card? I don't know how the mail works in Canada and I might have done it wrong! Or CANADA did it wrong. Because Canada...amIright?

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  9. YES what Megs said, ALLEY READ IT NAAAAAOWWWW.

    I have about 150 pages left from when I had the sads and tried to read it and then STOPPED before the... ending... but I'm thinking I could probably finish it now because while I still have a sad, I also riped my Ashley out by the roots and now he is Gone, Girl.

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  10. This comment is funnier if you misread "sittings" for "shittings."


    As you were.

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  11. I heart you and some day I will finish this book. I had to take it back to the library with ~100 pages left because I miscalculated when I was leaving for the holidays!

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  12. Or MAYBE THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT EACH OTHER


    Ok, I've finished this. And feel things.

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  13. Well NOW they know everything. AND SO DO YOU.

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  14. A collective groan rings out through the blogging community. With only 100 PAGES LEFT? How...is that even possible?

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  15. I JUST READ THIS! And at That Point I was like OMG and then a little later I was like Pfffft but at the end I was like, Eaugh, that was good and terrible. Good like a good book and terrible like, I mean, YOU know what I mean.

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