GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn

The book looks like a commercial one. Like written in order to gain money and less to enrich the grey substance of the brains. It begins with a massive chain of extremely good opinions about the book. Opinions of different VIP and magazines that are very popular all over the world but especially in the USA. That made me react skeptically upon this book “oh! Another book written only to enrich the author!”. I began to read it because of the movie with the same title that created a huge debate among people (I have not seen the movie yet!), discussing who is who concerning the two protagonist-antagonist of the novel – Nick and Amy. So I was curious too.. and.. I decided to read it. And…   

… if you decide to read “Gone girl” be sure that you will not be able to leave the book till you reach the very end of it! This book is a leech! A true one! It succeeds greatly to catch your soul and then your body in bonus (especially, the brain!). Just try it and you’ll see how it looks like this kind of feeling.

“Gone girl” is a psychological thriller. We meet here characters with psychological perturbations that are inherited from the family medium, as neurosis, paranoia, psychosis, the complex of superiority, the complex of the ideal etc. And the most important is the fact that the author is showing how these perturbations are transmitted further to the new generations.

Few words about the subject of the novel: there is the 5^th anniversary of the marriage of one couple: Nick and Amy. The day of the anniversary the husband finds out that his wife is missing, she’s “gone”. The police prove that the husband wanted to get rid of her, and murdered her, but they cannot find the body. What really happened there, was the husband the murderer, or maybe a victim, or maybe something else, and what really happened to the wife, you will find out only if reading the book.

“Gone girl” reveals a variety of family problems that appears during one’s life. And how they influence everything: the love and the hate, the divorce or the reconciliation, the friendship or the enmity, the communication or the lack of it, the mutuality or the selfishness, the compromise, the cheating or the fidelity, the children or the lack of them, the spoiled child or the comprehensive child etc.

“Gone girl” is written in an unusual for me manner. When reading I had the sensation that it had been written by too antagonist authors. I had the impression that Gillian Flynn, the author, had had a kind of “dédoublement de personalité”  (dual personality). During all the reading I felt a kind of strong inner struggle, because of the multiple insights this book offers. It was really a massive challenge for me to read it. What is important to mention here is that during the reading I was on different grounds: on Nick’s and then on Amy’s and vice-versa, and vice-versa till the middle of the book. I couldn’t be stoic.  What happened next, on whose ground I remained, I will not write it, because of the end of the book that is a massively surprising one (I’ll write further).

Mail on Sunday wrote “Gone girl is a book you’ll be begging other people to read, just so you can discuss is with them”, and that is true! I want to discuss about it indeed.

This book remembered me about a one popular phrase of the French literature “Familles, je vous haie!” of André Gide, the French writer (in translation “Families, I hate you!”).

The end of this novel surprised me this very morning when I have finished the book … I imagined many other ends of this book not at all that one. I’d rather could believe Gillian Flynn had chosen that end… but, it’s her choice! Actually, a very philosophical one.

The book is extremely easy to read. I adore the books that are at the same time too complicated, deep, insightful, and easy to read! This is how Gillian Flynn writes from my point of view. And yes, I would love to read her other two books: “Sharp objects” and “Dark places”, but not now. Why? Because Flynn has a very soliciting writing. While reading her you can really feel how your brain is boiling. It can be dangerous (half serious half joke).

Enjoy the reading!