About this title: After eight years, the murders of two preteen girls--timed nearly a year apart--bring reporter Camille Preaker reluctantly back to her hometown. As she works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, Camille finds herself forced to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780307341556ISBN:0307341550
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Date Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN-13:9780307341556ISBN:0307341550
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"In this debut novel, Gillian Flynn brings the reader a fast-paced, intense read that kept me captivated. Camille Preaker is a second rate journalist who has returned to her hometown in order to report on the murders of two young girls. The police have little to go on and Camille finds herself drawn into the investigation. But Camille has demons of her own that she is going to have to face while she tries to break this story open. I'm going to start off with the fact that I cannot believe that this is the author's first novel. It was such an intense read but it was SO good. Camille is an interesting main character, strong at points and weak at others, and such a different personality. Half of the book I was focused on trying to figure her out, what made her tick, and why she made the choices that she was making. I found myself caring about what happened to her without even realizing it. Flynn creates such a dark atmosphere to the story where you know bad things are happening but you have to wait and see what they are. The characters are all well thought out and the story flows along with ease even as it takes the reader into its' depths. The ending of the story was the only part of the story that didn't quite live up to my expectations but looking back now I'm thinking that it was better than I initially thought. All in all, this was a great read and a great way to begin the R.I.P. IV challenge."
"Mystery-thriller "Sharp Objects" is a perfectly serviceable vacation read -- a page-turner well-suited for a couple sessions by the pool, and then immediately forgetten. Gillian Flynn's novel is the kind of book that gets a glowing blurb from Stephen King, and seems written by a television critic. (King's praise indeed fills the back cover, and Flynn's head TV critic for Entertainment Weekly.)
The book's fine for what it is, though a bit sloppily edited, as this type of novel tends to be. With all the people thanked for their help on the acknowledgments page, not one could have helped Flynn decide between "ok" and "okay" -- or, as is usually preferred, though not in this book, "OK" -- if only for consistency's sake? It's not a terrible book. It has a propulsive plot, characters who are not quite three-dimensional but not complete cardboard cutouts either, and writing that is workmanlike but inoffensive. It's just not the type of book I usually read or enjoy. (A book club I'm in picked it.)
Some of the reviews that ran when "Sharp Objects" was published a few years ago implied it had literary leanings. Don't be fooled. It is a step up from being a completely trashy beach read, but a relatively small step up. "Sharp Objects" hardly deserves discussion in a book-club setting, and certainly does not qualify as literature."
"The book was good, not as gripping as I thought it was going to be , had it figured out fairly early, which surprised me as that almost never happens."
"I just picked this up on a whim at the Goodwill because on the back, instead of a synopsis, is a quote from Stephen King saying that the book is creepy. I bought it because I trusted that if he said it's creepy, then I'd be creeped out.
That was a fair assumption.
The strange thing for me, in this book, was the focus on females. The main character, the kids who were murdered, the other creepy people in the book: All women. I think this is unique in murder-type books. Not sure that I've ever encountered that before.
Especially for a first novel, I think the pacing and the tone was great. Both were set early on and were consistent throughout the book. Like a good mystery book, she made you jump to conclusions, then question those conclusions then question your questioning.
I enjoyed the twist at the end and how everything turned out. There wasn't this soothing "everything is ok" ending, which was dark and kind of difficult to read, but so was the rest of the book, so I liked it.
For sure a creepy, dark read, but it is well written and I liked it."
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