Gone Girl. I didn't get very far because right off the hop I didn't like her, so I certainly didn't care why or how she went missing.
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I read the whole thing. I can't remember shit from it. At that time my life was more boring than reading that book, though.
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I'm sure people enjoy it, and it's well written... it just did not fit me at all.
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