On the back of the book, the publisher has printed raving blurbs from tana french, laura lippman, arthur phillips, katechristensen, and karin slaughter among others. This 43page guide for gone girl by gillian flynn includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 3 parts, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. Sep 26, 2014 gone girl, the latest from that dark lord of cinema, david fincher, opens with a man softly talking about his wifes head. This genre is one i enjoy quite a bit im not looking for the next gone girl, just a wellwritten twisty thriller, and i dont like detective stuff so this works for me and i can tell you truly that most of the time, these blurbs arent true. Subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest news, sales, and promotions. San francisco chronicle gillian flynns barbed and brilliant gone girl has two deceitful, disturbing, irresistible narrators and a plot that twists so many times youll be dizzy. Its a smart marketing ploy, but who wants to read the same book repeatedly.
The image of his hand caressing a womans sleek blond hair in. It was published by crown publishing group in june 2012. Chose from several free tools or use adobe indesign or adobe lightroom. Worse than the cover, worse than the writing in the book itself, there are a lot of blurbs on amazon that are pretty near atrocious.
On goodreads its also on the same list as dear daughter, which i have at my house right now. A former critic for entertainment weekly, she lives in chicago with her husband and children. Cincinnati city beat, john kelly a highly original thriller thats also a razorsharp depiction of a relationship gone off the. Now that weve gotten that out of the way, theres a real sadness to nicks view of his reality.
Four of the ten short stories in the book were adapted for television. The daily news not every book can be the next gone girl. Timely, poignant and emotionally rich, gone girl will peel away your comfort levels even as you root for its protagonistsdespite your best intuition. How to write a book blurb by far, the weakest part of many selfpublished books is the synopsis found on amazon and elsewhere. Through her two ultimately unreliable narrators, flynn masterfully weaves the slow trickle of critical details with 90degree plot turns. It almost requires a game board to show how nick and amy move through this book. Tales to give you goosebumps book goosebumps wiki fandom. Gillian flynn this book is for you if you love reading a good writing and real characters, as the suspense environment looks real with the story of the disappearance of protagonist nicks wife, and the suspense that ensues. And look for alafair burkes latest heartracing novel of psychological suspense, the wife, coming in january 2018. Thats not surprising at all since gillian flynn herself wrote the screenplay. Gone girl by gillian flynn i have finally watched the movie adaptation of gone girl starring rosamund pike and ben affleck and im utterly pleased with it, mostly because it followed the book rather closely. Gillian flynn is one of the most worldwide famous and popular authors nowadays with bestselling novels like gone girl and dark places, along with the short story the grownup, but her debut novel was this one, sharp objects. Artfully employing misdirection, unreliable narrators and jawdropping twists, flynns third novel is a bravura whiteknuckle ride into the heart of millennial darkness.
Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the gone girl whirlwind tour. May 19, 2012 gone girl switches between nicks narrative, as the hunt for the beautiful, blond amy consumes the attention of americas media, and amys diary, as she writes about the early days of their. Her latest book, however, was described as a psychological portrait of a marriagea plot i almost always want to read if it is done well. Gone girl, the latest from that dark lord of cinema, david fincher, opens with a man softly talking about his wifes head. Its more like a cyclone on steroids, with farm animals and houses zooming by really fast. While its a welcome relief to see a book adapted into a movie that isnt grounded in another teen fiction franchise, the bookofthemonth club mentality gone girl. The windows still blackened, and photographs anne placed on the wall above her bed were dimly lit in her small room.
In several interviews, flynn has said that she was inspired to write the novel by the disappearance of californian laci peterson in late 2. I ducked behind the bookcase which opened to the narrow stairway leading to their hidden rooms. You havent read yet and youre unmarried please i suggest you. Immensely dark and deeply intelligent, gone girl is a book about how well one person can truly know another metro flynn is a brilliantly accomplished psychological crime writer and this latest book is so dark, so twisted and so utterly compelling that it actually messes with your mind daily mail. If you havent yet read gone girl, or if you care about spoilers, please dont read further than this sentence, because im about to give the whole ending of this book away. The novel soon made the new york times best seller list. Gone girl is a thriller novel in the mystery and crime genres, by the american writer gillian flynn. Alligator fic moore intricate characters, rich emotions, and lyrical storytelling all set in newfoundland bad monkey fh. Blurbs need to skip the fluff and get to the point. If you liked the hunger games, youll love the gone series. Getting blurbs for your book is about executing your marketing strategy and that work begins long before your book hits the shelves with your book proposal and doesnt end once the book appears in print.
Oct 08, 2014 the book version of gone girl, so ive heard, is a crime novel. The woman in the window boasts blurbs from stephen king unputdownable and. Oct 08, 2014 back in january, entertainment weekly ran a cover story on the then upcoming adaptation of gillian flynns bestselling novel gone girl. Gone girl by gillian flynn darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, gillian flynns gone girl will be published june 5. I had to see whether or not the book was worth all the hype and flutter. Thank you to the author and publisher for this opportunity. Readers will just think, man, i wish i was reading gone girl instead of this right now. Gone girl is one of the best and most frightening portraits of psychopathy ive ever read. Tags blurb, writing, editing, cover, hunger games, gone girl, blurbs, how to write a blurb. The novels suspense comes from the main character, nick dunne, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife. Flynns style features broken characters, nasty acts, gruesome crimes and plot twists. I know, i know gone girl the book and gone girl the movie both shoot most of their wads at the midway point, when amy turns up alive and skipping town. The girl on the train by paula hawkins, gone girl by gillian flynn, behind closed doors by b. Find out more about the gone books by michael grant.
Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. May 08, 2018 last week, i toured anne franks house. A j finn is a new author of psychological thrillers, with his debut novel titled a woman in the window if you like reading stories that follow the currently popular trend of psychological thrillers similar to before i go to sleep, girl on a train, gone girl, and woman in cabin 10, this book will be right up your alley. A second edition could include endorsements or blurbs in the front matter. Although the furniture was gone, the windows and walls remained just as they had been in august 1944. Bel and jade are the 11yearold wicked girls, so dubbed by the british press when theyre. Gone girl is deserving of all the praise and trill.
Im probably the last person in the book blog world to have read gillian flynns gone girl, which is part mystery and part psychological thriller. Gone girl is a movie of its cultural moment, an era when divorce wont cut it if there are options for lethal revenge and aggravated assault. Subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest news, sales, and. The most nonsensical terms used in book blurbs litreactor. If you read them, youre expecting the awesomest book everfilled with psychological insight, biting wit, razor. I received a text from the library that my book is ready to be downloaded gone girl. In this breakout standalone novel of suspense in the vein of gone girl and the girl on a train, a woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murderbut begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated. Salon writes, the novel has been called the gone girl of the continent and not without cause. Having gone through this horrible experience with my upcoming book, acres orphans, i hope this is at least a little bit helpful 1 it took me about a week to get it right. How to write the perfect blurb examples, formula, opening.
Apr 22, 2014 gone girl is a fastpaced, always surprising pageturner of a bookgone girl is a superbly crafted novel by a talented and daring young writer and it will keep you guessing until the very last sentence. The two main characters are despicable but for different reasons. Books youll books youll love if you were shocked by the twist in gone girl. Brilliantly shot and directed, tautly acted, fully realized, the movie poses questions about the nature of marriage, media, family and identity in minute 1 which it doesnt even try to answer by minute 148. Featured content includes commentary on major characters. Scott is a novella which takes the reader back and forth between the presentday world and renaissance italy. The articles author stephen lee quotes director david fincher the social network, se7en on the authorpenned screenplay for the filmwhich stars ben affleck and rosamund pike as nick and amy respectivelyindicating that drastic deviations from the. Gillian flynns novel gone girl has come to mean any vaguely twisty tale. Laura lippman, the acclaimed new york times bestselling author of the most dangerous thing, id know you anywhere, and what the dead know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one mans disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.
Plus, with apologies to lev grossman, nothings like harry potter, and calling out game of thrones just reminds fans how long its been since martin released a new book in the series. Similarities in 2 novels raise questions about the limits. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the ex. The pulsating novel that defined the thriller genre for the rest of the decade, gone girl is a stunning union of clockwork plotting and credible, intriguing characterisation that spawned a legion of imitators. When i talk about establishing an atmosphere for a novel with a blurb, this is what i mean. Once a book is a runaway hit, every publishing house is on the hunt to find the next one. Tales to give you goosebumps is the first book in the goosebumps series of the same name. But far from just being a mindless thriller, gone girl is a literary pageturner that is smart and witty. Yes, descent is an abductionsuspense story, and the girl at the center of it is a high school track star named caitlin courtland. Flynn is a writer in the mystery and crime genrestwo categories i almost never read. I categorized it as an airport read, fun and forgettable. This is a wonderful and terrifying book about how the happy surface normality and the underlying darkness can become too closely interwoven to separate. The wall street journal dubbed dutch novelist herman kochs new novel the european gone girl. I think gone girl did a better job showing the secrets all the way through.
The novel became quite popular and soon made the new york times best seller list. Sep 10, 2015 should you put quotes from other authors on your back cover. I am, however, hesitant to say the same about gone girl. Following the long line of solemn visitors, i listened to words from annes diary on a headset. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether or not nick dunne is involved in the disappearance of his wife amy. Find books like gone girl from the worlds largest community of readers. Dec 05, 20 i expected to enjoy gone girl, but i wasnt expecting to admire it. The book version of gone girl, so ive heard, is a crime novel. I just got gone girl from my library and i am happy because i was going to pay 15. Like gillian flynns bestseller, its a tale told by an unreliable narrator, full of twists and skillfully executed revelations, ultimately. Aug 23, 2017 the book gone girl written by gillian flynn begins in north carthage, missouri.
In the tradition of the girl on the train, the silent wife, and gone girl comes an. This genre is one i enjoy quite a bit im not looking for the. I dont understand all the gone girl love, or gird yourself for some heresy, gang here it comes all the love for david fincher, either. The book starts with the celebration of nick dunne and amy dunnes wedding anniversary, notably their 5th one. Please enter your email address to get the latest book blurbs. The latest book caught up in this phenomenon is gone girl. Books stephen king recommends goodreads share book. We hate to break it to you, nick, but you actually arent a real personyoure a character in a book called gone girl by gillian flynn. On a warm summer morning in north carthage, missouri, it is nick and amy dunnes fifth wedding anniversary. Within genre fiction, publishers who are eager to replicate successful formulas often participate in benign forms of copying, sometimes actively soliciting the next gone girl or fifty. Ive read maybe 2 books that made me laugh aloud for real.
I feel like lately i dont have the attention span to read blurbs, so i try to skim them, but that just makes me more confused, so then i give up and move on. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Buy gone girl by gillian flynn from waterstones today. I picked up this book because most of the blurbs on the back were comparing it to gone girl. Before gone girl burst onto the scene with enormous billboards and a twitter hashtag, gillian flynn had already published two novels, the second of them this dark places. These book club discussion questions will help your reading group explore the plot, themes, and ideas raised in the novel. See more ideas about books, my books and books to read.
A strange sensation overcomes sixteenyearold, addy serna, while shes looking into the eyes of the mona lisa print hanging on her. Blurb create, print, and sell professionalquality photo. Sharp objects by gillian flynn goodreads share book. It was first published in 1994, and was originally sold with a goosebumps book light. Gone girl, based on the hit 2012 novel by gillian flynn, is an incredible success. Pdf gone girl by gillian flynn book download online. Create, print, and sell professionalquality photo books, magazines, trade books, and ebooks with blurb. Back in january, entertainment weekly ran a cover story on the then upcoming adaptation of gillian flynns bestselling novel gone girl. Jun 04, 20 im going to have to be cryptic in case you havent read it and hope you get what i mean if you have. Not that i just sat at my keyboard, but id try to type something, hate it, go for a walk, note lines on my notepad, try again, lather rinse repeat for over a week. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when nicks clever and beautiful wife disappears. Gone girl reading guide a readers guide for gone girl by gillian flynn for additional features, visit in order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thoughtprovoking questions possible, it is necessary to reveal important aspects of the plot of this novel. Its always hard to say why a particular book explodes at a particular time and why others by the same writer simmer away less noticed. My decision to read gone girl was largely based on the insatiable curiosity.
Gone girl is a thriller novel in the mystery and crime genres, by the american writer gillian. Alligator fic moore intricate characters, rich emotions, and lyrical storytelling all set in newfoundland bad monkey fh a dark, hysterical, snappy thrillercomedy set in florida. This post discusses the plot of gone girl, the movie and the book, in detail. Nick and amy manipulate each other with savage, merciless and often darkly witty dexterity. Random house publishing group ballantinepublication date. If you find a book with a sk blurb, add it here and the blurb here, so i can add it to the list. Jan 14, 2019 having gone through this horrible experience with my upcoming book, acres orphans, i hope this is at least a little bit helpful 1 it took me about a week to get it right. Gone girl is an example of mystery, suspense, and crime genres. During the preparation process for a standard anniversary which includes the wrapping of presents and creation of reservations.
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