https://webbish6.com/gone-girl-the-cool-girl-speech-margaret-atwood-girls-in-politics-and-becoming-the-villainess/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://webbish6.com/gone-girl-the-cool-girl-speech-margaret-atwood-girls-in-politics-and-becoming-the-villainess/#comment-2454 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:48:24 +0000 http://www.webbish6.com/?p=4189#comment-2454 Dear R, I had mixed feelings about the book. Like you, I kind of wish that a mix of Margaret Atwood and Agatha Christie had taken a shot at the same idea. (I really like tightly woven murder mysteries, and there were a lot of plotting flaws in it.) I think that the characters were sort of brushstrokes instead of real, believable characters. I enjoyed some of it – and not other parts, and then got frustrated by other parts.

]]> https://webbish6.com/gone-girl-the-cool-girl-speech-margaret-atwood-girls-in-politics-and-becoming-the-villainess/#comment-2453 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:19:14 +0000 http://www.webbish6.com/?p=4189#comment-2453 You didn’t say whether you liked Gone Girl or not. I read it but I thought the writing was poor. I didn’t for one hot second believe that Flynn’s male voice was actually a male voice. I had to keep flipping backward to see whose chapter I was in. I did think the story itself was excellent. I’d have loved it if Atwood had written it.

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