What are you reading?

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Medusa

I've been hearing a lot about "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and started listening to it today while I'm puttering around the house.

I am pleasantly surprised and have stayed with it all day! It's really engaging and I will probably stay up late tonight to finish it in print!

Ok, so I finished this at 3am. In other words, I gulped this book down like free ice cream!

A couple of spoiler-y things so read no further if you plan to read this:

First, I've never read anything by this author and was prepared to be disappointed because I don't like a lot of popular fiction. This, however, was so different than what I expected that I will be reading all of her other stuff.

And second: The PACE is fantastic. The writing style is both jarring and stark...and really beautiful. The characters are fucked up beyond all belief and the sheer mental illness in that one is beyond most of what I've read about supposed "-paths".

I told a girlfriend of mine that I felt like I had been punched in the butthole after reading this. It's such a fucked up, wonderful read.