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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (and other similar fluff)

11th October 2017 By Mark Jolly

Despite my high-blown literary pretensions I will from time to time put down the Proust and the Dostoyevski and read a trashy page-turner, usually after a series of what I hoped would be classic, classy reads reveal themselves to be a pile of tush.

So after starting and abandoning Stendahl’s The Charterhouse of Parma and The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, I felt in need of light relief. [Read more…] about Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (and other similar fluff)

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Book reviews, Eleanor Catton, Gillian Flynn, Gone GIrl, Stendahl, The Charterhouse of Parma, The Luminaries

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