Gone Girl.
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it.
Today's blog is on The book GONE GIRL by author Gillian Flynn.
THE BOOK
Gone Girl was written around the late 2000's early 2010;s by American author Gillian Flynn released by publishers Crown Publishing Group in June of 2012. labelled a crime and suspense thriller, Gone Girl grew in popularity and made the New York Times Best Seller List. No doubt the success of the book is two fold with its main theme being that of Dishonesty and the superficial nature of appearance and in its sense of suspense comes from whether or not Nick Dunne is responsible for the disappearance of his wife Amy. The books critics in the US received and reviews the novel rather positively, citing the authors use of unreliable narration, plot twists and suspense added to it.
THE MOVIE ADAPTION
Gone Girl was considered for a movie almost straight out of the gate, The rights for Gone Girl were bought by Reese Witherspoon's company and 20th Century Fox of which $1,5 million US dollars was spent. Gillian Flynn the author was brought in to write the screenplay, Witherspoon produced the film alongside Leslie Dixon, Bruna Papandrea and Cean Chaffin, with Witherspoon citing she was drawn tot he script because of its strong female characters as well as the use of multiple perspectives and non-linear structure. It was announced in May 2013 that actors Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike were cast as Nick and Amy Respectively and that the movies director would be David fisher. The movie received co financing from New Regency and Fox, the movie was later released on October 3rd 2014.
I knew of Gone Girl when it first came out but didn't go off and read it, I was admittedly in a very different head space back then so I most likely wouldn't have read it, however I did end up seeing the movie first, and fell in love with Rosemund Pike (Amy Dune), as she is a very good actress. It took a little time to decide to buy the book partially to see if it would be like the book and partially to see what was different. Whilst structured differently to the movie, the book and the movie were extremely similar. I think it helped the author wrote the screenplay. The twist was my favourite part of both the book and movie, and Amy is my favourite character in both, with Movie Nick a close second. I give the book a 9/10 and highly recommend the book to all who love reading especially crime thrillers and suspense books. I also give the movie an 8/10 and highly recommend everyone go watch it.
THE AUTHOR
Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City Missouri on 24th of February 1971 to Judith and Edwin Flynn the second child to older brother Travis. Flynn went to University of Kansas top gain degrees in English and Journalism, before attending Northwestern university a few years later for her journalism masters. After graduation Flynn went to work freelance, briefly working at U. S. News & World Report before being hired at Entertainment weekly as a write in 1998, promotion to TV and Movie critic came later as did marrying Brett Nolan in 2007 having two children in the process, however she was laid off in December of 2008. Flynn has currently written four books Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009) Gone Girl (2012) and the more recent book The Grown Up (2015).
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