Gone Girl

This thing been on the hardcover bestseller list for over a year so you may have heard of it. There's a movie coming too, of course. People are raving about this one. So I gave a copy to my wife who plowed through it and then I read it. I like mysteries, crime novels, what-have-you but this wasn't the crazy page-turner I was expecting. That said, I did read it fairly quickly. The story bounces back and forth from the point-of-view of the two main characters, Nick and Amy. They're a married couple with some serious issues. How serious the issues are are revealed layer by layer like a (rotten) onion. The story begins with the suspicious disappearance of Amy and naturally all eyes are on Nick (who lies a lot). I thought the book was fairly fun but not thrust-it-into-the-hands-of-your-friends fun but definitely oh-these-people-are-bad fun.