MixedBookforumI found it as irritating as imagined ... By the time the train ride was over, I felt I was reading something truly sick and dark ... The sick and dark of Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, is less in the plot (which is a masterpiece of cuckoo-clockwork), more in the book’s vision ... That the emotional violence is rendered in smarty-pants chirping makes it more grating than painful ... it is also a maniacal power fantasy that panders to female anger and fear ... What remains unclear is how the book regards its nauseating fantasy ... Either way, it’s difficult to appreciate the book without participating in the fantasy, without living, for a time, in the horrible hive brain that the book so successfully invokes ... But this book seems a little too enamored with Amy’s view of the world, and misuses its power as much as its protagonist misuses hers.
