Patty Day frequently worries whether she is a good mother. What do you think? How does the book depict parents in general? I knew you could. Do you like Diane? Why do you think Libby, at the end of the book, thinks twice before shoplifting?
Is this reflective of a new attitude toward the world? Why do you think the author chose to set the murders on a farm? What images and themes does the heartland and farming evoke? Libby is a liar, a manipulator, a kleptomaniac, and an opportunist. Does she have any redeeming qualities? Are you able to empathize with her? If so, why? Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. Share: Share on Facebook. Add to Cart. In order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thought-provoking questions possible, it is necessary to reveal important aspects of the plot of this novel.
If you have not finished reading Dark Places, we respectfully suggest that you wait before reviewing this guide. Introduction Libby Day has been unwillingly famous since age seven—when her family was massacred, and the brother she once adored was convicted of the crimes based on her accusation. After decades of avoiding responsibility and effort, Libby is in need of a job. Questions and Topics for Discussion 1. Did you like Libby as a character? Do you think the author intended for her to be likeable?
Did you think Ben was guilty? You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious. Although Flynn considers herself a feminist, some critics accuse her of misogyny because of the unflattering depiction of female characters in her books. Yet feminism, she feels, allows for women to be bad characters in literature:.
The one thing that really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing. Books Flynn began writing novels during her free time while working for Entertainment Weekly. Partly inspired by Dennis Lehane's Mystic River , the book deals with dysfunctional families, violence, and self-harm. The book explores the era's satanic rituals and was adapted into a film. Flynn makes a cameo appearance in the film. The novel hit No. Times culture writer Dave Itzkoff wrote that the novel was, except for the Fifty Shades of Grey series, the biggest literary phenomenon of By the end of that year, Gone Girl had sold over two million copies print and digital.
The film, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, was released to popular and critical acclaim. Other writing Flynn was an avid reader of comic and graphic novels when she was a child. She collaborated with illustrator Dave Gibbons and wrote a comic book story called "Masks," as part of the Dark Horse Presents series. It came out in Flynn agreed to write the scripts for Utopia , an forthcoming HBO drama series adapted from the acclaimed British series Utopia. Personal life She married lawyer Brett Nolan in They met through Flynn's grad school classmate at Northwestern but did not start dating until Flynn, then in her mids, moved back to Chicago from New York City.
The couple still resides in Chicago with their two children. Adapted from Wikipedia. The New Yorker In her first psychological thriller, Sharp Objects, Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty the heroine carves words into her own flesh written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.
New York Magazine Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects , her sensuous and chilling first thriller. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:. Email required Address never made public. Her red hair was shot with white, wiry threads, and she was unattractively thin, all bumps and points, like she'd swallowed a shelf's worth of hardware She did not look like the kind of person you'd want to hug.
In the film, Patty is played by Hendricks. She's made to look worn-out, for sure -- her stringy hair looks like it hasn't been washed in a couple days, and her clothing is simple. But she's still Christina Hendricks, with her bodacious curves, plump lips, and mascaraed eyes.
She looks beautiful. In the book, Diondra has "brown spiraly curls all crunchy with gel. In the film, Diondra has wavy, messy-sexy hair and wears a skin-tight, short black dress that shows of Moretz's long legs. Even the casting of Hoult as Lyle feels off -- Flynn writes that Lyle "looked like a serial killer" and has him sporting "wavy, mousy hair he'd tried to tame with too much gel in all the wrong places," glasses, and "jeans that were skinny, but not in a cool way, just in a tight way.
And, of course, there's Charlize Theron. Adult Libby is not unattractive in the novel, but she's got a bad dye job, her red roots poking through "like my scalp was bleeding," and a "baby face. Theron, Moretz, Hoult and Hendricks are just too attractive.
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