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Mac Kid Book Club: Gone Girl By Gillian Flynn

Discussion Questions: Part One: Boy Loses Girl

January 16, 2013
Listed below are some discussion questions to get you talking about Part One of Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. Next week we'll be discussing Part Two: Boy Meets Girl.

Choose one or as many questions as you'd like and answer them in the comments section! Feel free to respond to others and remember to please keep it respectful if opinions differ! Everyone is welcome and I'm looking forward to hearing what you had to say. Please also refrain from any spoilers about the upcoming material just in case someone in our group hasn't read that far yet!

Thanks for hanging out with me for a bit! My answers are posted at the below the list of questions!

Debby





January Selection

Gone Girl
, by Gillian Flynn



Part 1: Boy Loses Girl
Questions

  1. Do you think Nick Dunne is guilty and why?
  2. How do you feel about Amy? Do you find her sympathetic?
  3. Do you believe that Nick didn't know that Amy was pregnant?
  4. Do you think Amy's disappearance has anything to do with Andie?
  5. What do you think Nick finds in the shed behind Go's house in the end of Part 1?










This will be fun and light. Nothing hard core, my brain can't take that. We'll simply ask and answer, discuss and dish and see where it leads!




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Questions

Debby: My thoughts are entirely non thought provoking and fairly candid. I told you it would be this way. Feel free to be way more literary than your moderator.

Do you think Nick Dunne is guilty and why?

I feel like my brain is in the dryer and thumping around. You know how shoes sound when you dry them? Thump, bump, boink, bang. Except it's, GUILTY! Wait, NOT GUILTY! SOO GUILTY! Crap, NOT GUILTY! High?

I cannot get a read on this book and continually find myself saying "whaaaaaaaat?"

I tend to be certain of only a few things at this point.

Someone killed a character I am beginning to hate. Is she FOR REAL?? I would HATE her in real life.
Nick is a doofus and quite possibly, point blank,high as a kite. Who in the WORLD acts this discombobulated!?




How do you feel about Amy? Do you find her sympathetic?


I'm happy to reiterate that I hate Amy with a passion. I am totally not on the dead girl's team. I should be ashamed of myself, huh?

She gives me an itchy case of the "bad wife" guilt. It's a complex I think I have that has nothing to do with poor Amy. I imagine her as a total pain in the tookas and want to off her myself via papercuts with her every quiz where she chooses to lay down like A DOORMAT!! I find myself continually saying, "Is this chick for REAL!?"


Do you believe that Nick didn't know that Amy was pregnant?

Again, BANG, THUMP, BUMP. "Whaaaaaat?!" my brain screams. She was pregnant!!!? He is too clueless for words.

Do you think Amy's disappearance has anything to do with Andie?

I think Andie was on my " I HATE AMY" team but has nothing to do with offing her. Her guard is up about her brother and that tells me she's doubting him.

What do you think Nick finds in the shed behind Go's house in the end of Part 1?

I'm a big scaredy cat so I was thinking some kind of creepy doll in a cradle. I hate creepy things and was praying it was anything but. I wasn't sure where in the world this story was going so I turned the next page… sl.owl.y and while squinting my eyes to read. Because that will make it easier on me. In theory.

I'm still turning the pages albeit with my mouth open wide! You?
Debby

 


Timeline for discussion:





Book Discussion January 22/23 --- Q and A Part 2 Begins
Please have read UP TO Part Three: Boy Gets Girl Back ( or vice versa)




Book Discussion January 29/30 -- Q and A Final Discussion
Please have finished the selection.
Announcement of Next Selection