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Loading... Sharp Objectsby Gillian Flynn
 | Mar 14, 2014 | edit |  The town of Wind Gap is definitely not Mayberry. It seems to be filled with dysfunctional families, particularly ones with idle wives who rely too much on alcohol and drugs, and there is a big line between the haves and have-nots. Plus, about once a generation, the town seems to spawn a gang of rich, promiscuous, angry middle-school girls. Now two children have been murdered and Camille Preaker returns to her hometown of Wind Gap to report on the murders and perhaps unpack some of the considerable emotional baggage she is carrying. This is a well-plotted, well-told, dark mystery with memorable characters. Flynn lays bare even her protagonist's darkest corners to produce a deep psychological story as well. This was a quick read for me because I kept having to read "just one more chapter" to see what happened next. (  ) glade1 | Mar 10, 2014 | Wonderfully weird. ( ) Marssie | Mar 2, 2014 | As you read through this gripping story you can't help but feel that everything is extreme... extreme drinking and drugs, extreme emotions, extreme youth.... In the end, extreme psychosis. This is a page turner that clenches your gut until your only choice is to read the book until the end, no matter what else you had planned to do with your day. It is not a story to love for it has no "lovable" characters but the sickness and sadness it reveals about bullying, cutting, and other "acceptable" disorders must be told. ( ) GarySims | Feb 23, 2014 | Camille, a marginal Chicago reporter is sent back to her childhood home in Missouri to investigate what appears to be a serial child murder. Camille is from a dysfunctional family with a peculiar past. Camille herself is a cutter who has been hospitalized for her self destructive behavior. Can Camille find the killer before she succumbs one again to the stress of being back "home". This book was a little drawn out for my taste,and the words aspect got tired after a while. (  ) AstridG | Feb 20, 2014 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
 Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0307341550, Paperback)As loyal Entertainment Weekly subscribers, we have been fans of Gillian Flynn for her smart, funny, and spot-on reviews of books, movies, and TV, but we were not prepared for her stunning debut novel Sharp Objects, a wickedly dark thriller that Stephen King calls a "relentlessly creepy family saga" and an "admirably nasty piece of work." We're calling it a cross between Twin Peaks and Secretary--sinister, sexy, and stylish. Perfect fall reading. --Daphne Durham 10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Gillian Flynn
(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:59:50 -0400) Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence and a short stay at a psychiatric hospital to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.… (more) |
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If you're looking for the mind bending twists and turns of Gone Girl that tend to give you whiplash, you may be a bit disappointed.
That being said, wow this story is twisted. There are so many wtf moments that it almost feels like I'm reading a V.C. Andrews novel, which lucky for me, I'm a fan of.
Personally, I am very intrigued by stories (real or imagined) dealing with psychopaths, the crazier the better, and I think that's where Flynn really excels. She's got a knack for creating these totally off the wall characters that pull you into their world just out of sheer curiosity for their minds.
I've always found psychological thrillers to be the scariest stories, being that it's all related to diseases of the mind, that really could happen to anyone, just as likely as any other disease. I was fairly impressed with how well she balanced the absurdity of the story with the idea of "hey, this could actually happen." (