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Finished "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. This was a good, quick read until towards the end, which fell totally flat as far as I was concerned. After a story and characters that held my attention and kept me wondering "what next", the ending was a baffling disappointment to say the least. Not even a trifle believable. The entire story was so well constructed, but the ending ruined it. I didn't need "happily ever after"; I just needed it to make sense, and it didn't, in any way, shape or form. It definitely quashed any urges I was having to read more by this author.
 
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skootie said:
Finished "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. This was a good, quick read until towards the end, which fell totally flat as far as I was concerned. After a story and characters that held my attention and kept me wondering "what next", the ending was a baffling disappointment to say the least. Not even a trifle believable. The entire story was so well constructed, but the ending ruined it. I didn't need "happily ever after"; I just needed it to make sense, and it didn't, in any way, shape or form. It definitely quashed any urges I was having to read more by this author.
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I think Joyce Carol Oates reacted in the same way. So she sat down and wrote Carthage. A similar premise. But a better book with a lot of other subjects thrown in just to show what it could have been.
 
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skootie said:
Finished "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. This was a good, quick read until towards the end, which fell totally flat as far as I was concerned. After a story and characters that held my attention and kept me wondering "what next", the ending was a baffling disappointment to say the least. Not even a trifle believable. The entire story was so well constructed, but the ending ruined it. I didn't need "happily ever after"; I just needed it to make sense, and it didn't, in any way, shape or form. It definitely quashed any urges I was having to read more by this author.
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I just saw the movie and went in knowing nothing because I hadn't read the book. Loved the film! thought about reading this but maybe not.
I am about to start a book that is sure to educate and inform and I imagine scholars all around the world will be quoting it.
The Making of Day of the Dead. ;-D
 
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skootie said:
Finished "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. This was a good, quick read until towards the end, which fell totally flat as far as I was concerned. After a story and characters that held my attention and kept me wondering "what next", the ending was a baffling disappointment to say the least. Not even a trifle believable. The entire story was so well constructed, but the ending ruined it. I didn't need "happily ever after"; I just needed it to make sense, and it didn't, in any way, shape or form. It definitely quashed any urges I was having to read more by this author.
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I must disagree with you. I thought it was a good portrait of two of the most twisted people I've ever met in a book. All the fake role playing. That was what the ending said to me. Not a happy ever after. I felt the film really captured that.
 
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I'm reading Hell House again - and I'm just as scared and creeped out as I was the first time I read it. The first time I read it I was drunk, but the creepy atmosphere broke through the barrier that alcohol sometimes creates between reality and your feelings. I was scared straight, you might say.
I can't believe how different Hell House is from Earthbound but both books were written by the same author. I think he was almost as good as Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe.
At least he was when he wrote Hell House.
 
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Reading The Verdict by Nick Stone. Said to be englands answer to John Grisham. I have some difficulty buying the main character. He is striving to work as a lawyer and is very ethically correct. And still seems chocked surprised, flabbergasted that all lawyers that he meets doesn't play fair. A little too naive to be true. Someone working in there should know that every lawyer isn't gods greatest gift to the earth. If they have to break a few rules to get the client free so be it. I can understand him wanting to be straight and play everything by the book but to believe that everybody else should reason and do the same thing just because they are lawyers seems just plain stupid to me. Am I to cynical here?
 
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Kurben said:
Reading The Verdict by Nick Stone. Said to be englands answer to John Grisham. I have some difficulty buying the main character. He is striving to work as a lawyer and is very ethically correct. And still seems chocked surprised, flabbergasted that all lawyers that he meets doesn't play fair. A little too naive to be true. Someone working in there should know that every lawyer isn't gods greatest gift to the earth. If they have to break a few rules to get the client free so be it. I can understand him wanting to be straight and play everything by the book but to believe that everybody else should reason and do the same thing just because they are lawyers seems just plain stupid to me. Am I to cynical here?
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Nope . . .not at all, it would seem that any lawyer would know just how people in the profession really are.

I'm kinda cynical and you are not like that.
 
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I finished All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. I was gobsmacked! There are novels about war that leave you speechless with their depictions of battle in the trenches, like for example Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks. Or this one in which the battlefields are so far removed and yet the battle to survive each day is harrowing.
 
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While away I finished Midnight Mass which I promptly passed on to my sister as a good read. Then on my tab I read Adrian's Undead Diary: Book One and I am almost finished Book Two. Folks, this not great literature in any way but if you like the Walking Dead with some humor thrown in, you might like this series. Warning, the editing was awful and may throw you a curve or two but it is quite entertaining; I hope there are more.
 
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