I am going to make a confession: Thriller is not my genre. I am more of
Nicolas Sparks and Richard Branson type of reader, not to mention Chetan Bhagat.
I am also passing through a phase where I want to read vintage classic
piece like Charles Dicknes, Thomas Hardy et al. Having said that, I picked up
Gone Girl because of the sheer media attention it was enjoying and offcourse
the movie. Gone Girl is everywhere. Ben Affleck will be competing with Shah
Rukh khan in Indian theatre this festive season; I thought why not finish the
book before that and I am glad I did that. The book later make me sit all night
and finish it in one go. It was a fun read for a person like me who most of the
time chooses to read happy-go-lucky type stories. Yup! You get it, Gone Girl is
a dark, Sadist and Physio kind of book and not every one’s cup of tea.
Gone Girl is the story of a husband-wife myridly bored with their
married lives. Nick Dunne a sports journalist with one of the New York famous
magazines swiped Amy Elliot off her feet; the drop dead gorgeous author of the
Nation's best seller "Amazing Amy". And like it always happens, the relationship
was all coy and rosy untill that unfaithful day when Amazing Amy suddenly
disappears from her home.
Nick Dunne was suspected of murdering his wife and all the
evidences were pointing fingers at him. But the question is ‘Did he really
murder his wife?
The plot of the book is gripping not to mention the highly addictive
storyline. Gone girl is a kind of book which will make you question the faith
of life and relationships; at times forcing you to believe that the faith of
every relationship is same. It is a book which once again proves a man
inability(read every men) to read his wife’s head. It also enlighten the fact that not only man
but women also possess ego’s somewhere deep inside them, most of the time they
are not aware of its presence. But someone like Amy Elliot is not ignorant.
Above of all, if you get impressed by the shear good reviews of
this book and the movie, lemme warn you, this book might make you question the
faith in humankind.
