Sep29

Gone Girl – Worst Ending EVER -_____-

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Gone Girl – Worst Ending EVER -_____-

I just finished Gone Girl and I am SO ridiculously disappointed in the ending. Like, seriously? The book was absolutely fantastic until the last thirty or so pages. That’s when it just got stupid. Now I can understand the lukewarm reviews on this book, because the ending sucked. The entire novel had so many interesting twists and turns, that the conclusion just seemed like Gillian Flynn gave up. She took an “easy way out” ending. I mean come on, shacking up with your sociopath wife and playing family with her until the day you die? Not impressed. It was obvious that Flynn was trying to end the book with this edgy, dysfunctional family feel, but it just left me feeling like I wasted a lot of time reading the book. Nick tried strangling Amy thirty five pages before the book ended for gods sake and we end with him being cool playing daddy to his and Amy’s child she conceived with his sperm she withdrew from the fertility doctors? What? I’m just so frustrated because I was loving Gone Girl SO much until the end!!! The finale was predictable, anti climactic, and just an all around bummer. In my opinion, it took Gone Girl from a ten to a four, easily. I’m just really confused as to why the book ended like this. Honestly, I wanted Nick to win in the worst way possible. He got shit on the entire four hundred pages of the story. Throw him a bone and throw Amy in jail! Now, I know what you’re thinking – An ending with Nick reining happy and victorious would have been just as lame as the published ending. And in a way that’s true. However, I feel like a lot of readers wanted the book to end that way. Nick was the under dog for a lot of the story, and I for one love a good under dog story. The tables turned on Amy from America’s sweet heart to a total psychopath, and I really wanted her to receive some type of punishment. Get a taste of her own medicine. Sometimes the ending that everyone wants is the best choice, rather than some bogus attempt of being edgy and creative. *Rolls eyes* So disappointed.

Where are all my Gone Girl readers at? How did you feel about the ending? How would you have liked the book to end? Leave me a comment and let’s chat! -Sarah

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  4. I just finished Gone Girl 30 minutes ago and the ending was so poorly done that I wished I hadn’t taken the time to read any of the book, although I found most of the way it was written quite funny. So that’s why the search online to see what others thought. I read on average three books a week and this is an example of why I usually stay away from best sellers, they rarely live up to the hype.

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    • Honestly after finishing the book I thought that the entirety of it was garbage. I was SO disappointed because the ending literally ruined it completely for me. I will say that I’m jumping on the hunger games bandwagon pretty late in the game because it was the only book in my house that I haven’t read and I’m really enjoying it so far! Definitely not what I usually go for, I’m a suspense/thriller/horror kind of gal but so far so good!

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  6. 100% agree they had me going for about 95% of the book I was on Amy side at the beginning than when we find out she’s a F-ing psychopath and is just a horrible person I wanted nick to finally get his chance to win I was so excited to see what happens at the end an than this happens are you serious he just gives up an takes her back an has a kid an plays daddy with her man I’m so mad with this book it definitely feels like Gillian Flynn took the easy way out in this one an gave up so mad an I can’t agree with you more on this ending!!! Glad I’m not the only one to feel I was cheated on with this pathetic ending

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