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You Ever Get Tired of Being Who People Want You to Be, and Not Yourself?

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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I’m a little late on boarding this train, aren’t I? So I’m sure most of you know the story already (mild spoilers abound in this review): I myself have seen the movie adaptation! But it was a conversation about said movie that made me want to actually read Gone Girl in the first place. Basically, the conversation boiled down to most people simply dismissing the character of Amy in the story as “crazy”. And while, no, I don’t agree with her actions and she does seem sociopathic, I thought… that’s so reductive: there’s so much more to it than that! […]

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6/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

The Gold Standard

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.” I read Gone Girl for CBR6 and have been comparing psychological thrillers to it since. I was beginning to wonder if I had made up how remarkable Gillian Flynn’s bone chilling drama was and holding lesser novels to an impossible standard. I wasn’t. I remained impressed with Flynn’s psychological mind fuck of a novel about a dysfunctional married couple whose secrets are exposed when the wife goes missing. Nick Dunne and his wife, Amy Elliot-Dunne, had an idyllic courtship but after five years of marriage that involved two layoffs, […]

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5/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

If you like sociopaths and unreliable narrators, then have I got a book for you!

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

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Amber wants nothing more than to live the way she thinks she deserves. She wants it all — wealth and jewels and real estate, with a rich handsome husband on her arm. In her mind, this dream life is owed to her, because her early life was one of poverty and despair. So just let her have this, ok? And it doesn’t matter if the house she wants has people living in it. Or if the man she wants is married to someone else. She wants it so she deserves it so don’t worry about the details. Amber moves from […]

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2/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Rainbow Rowell is my spirit animal.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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I am iridescent with joy. I am pregnant with wonder. Gestating within me is the belief that regardless of how much I love the book, if Rainbow Rowell is writing it, I will absolutely love the people she fills it with. When my egg hatches, I will be gifted with the certainty that Rainbow Rowell is my new favorite author. Part of my effervescence, no doubt, is due to the long string of unhappiness in which I’ve enshrouded myself. The Girl on the Train, Cujo, The Kite Runner, and Gone Girl put me in a pretty dark place, I think. Rainbow Rowell has […]

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8/22/2016 's CBR8 Review No:73 |

Shed your tears, for there is no succor here.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Spoilers abound. I’ve never before hated such a good book. There was nothing enjoyable in here. It was gross, and full of despair, and unsettling. Reading this was like bathing in a fetid pool of sewage left out in an Arizona summer. I’d rather eat rancid fish than live in this world any longer. I’d sooner spend the rest of my life watching Michael Bay movies than read this book again. Which isn’t to say it’s a bad book. It’s not. It was well written, and captivating. But it was possibly the most unpleasant reading experience I’ve ever had. It […]

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8/16/2016 's CBR8 Review No:70 |

Twisted Soulmates

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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I feel like I’m the last person on earth to read Gone Girl. I finally got around to seeing what all the fuss was about even though this isn’t the kind of book I usually read. You probably already know the synopsis by now so there will be spoilers. On Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth anniversary, Amy goes missing with signs of a struggle and traces of blood left in their house. At first, Nick has the support of the sympathetic public, but they quickly turn on him when he acts like the world’s biggest prat in public and it’s […]

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6/8/2015 's CBR7 Review No:27 |

Yet another example of how messed up people can be

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Gone Girl, of the so-called domestic noir genre (check wikipedia for more details), is a voyeuristic journey into disaster. While you might find Flynn’s characters unbecoming, there’s enough drama and intrigue to keep you reading. We begin with Nick Dunne, our Girl’s husband, who has just reported her missing to the police. Of course, being the husband, Nick is suspect number one. As he tries to search for his wife, work with the police, and deal with his wife Amy’s parents, Nick’s every move is scrutinized and criticized by the media. You see events unfold from Nick’s perspective, which gives […]

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4/27/2015 's CBR7 Review No:8 |

I never, ever want to drink Gin & Tonics out of a can on a train.

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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Every so often, a book comes out of nowhere that suddenly everyone is reading. The Twilight series. Oprah books. 50 Shades. And last year’s Gone Girl. Most of the time, these books are crap. But at least they get people reading and talking. I remember when Twilight came out, and a woman I knew — who never, ever read — was so obsessed with reading those books that she took time off from work and paid her nanny for extra hours so that she could read in peace. And last year, you couldn’t go a day without a conversation about […]

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3/16/2015 's CBR7 Review No:14 |


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