So, as you are reading Gone Girl, you: 
 a)	Raise your finger to your chin and tap distractively as you try to predict the outcome; 
 b)	You occasionally feel so freaked out that, if you are reading it in a public space, inevitably get weird stares in response to your facial reactions; 
 c)	Alternate moments of profound delight and shame as you are not sure what to feel anymore. 
 Right Answer: All of the above. Option B is strangely appropriate, though. 
 There's this anime that you may or not have heard of called School Days. It's infamous amongst otakus, and for good reason. (view spoiler)[It is apparently a girly teen love story, until... it's not. Let's just say that in the last scene there is a girl sailing on a cruise with a human head. Now that I think about it, that's kinda how I wish Gone Girl had ended. (hide spoiler)]Gone Girl made me feel in much the same way, and let me tell you, that does not happen often. I guess it's because you're positive you know where this is going, and then it does not go there at all, so you don't know if you should be amazed (haha, terrible pun) or just mad. I'll try to explain. 
 Hm, I get the hype. It surprises and interests at just the right amount - but I cannot shake the feeling that I had expected it to be a little more intricate and a little less flamboyant. It's like when someone gives you a riddle, you try to work it around and are forced to give up and then the answer is revealed as simply a play on words. Then you realize humiliated you took it too seriously. But it's all in good fun, right? 
 I spent around 60% of the book convinced this book was definitely aware of its feminism (yeah, I'm annoying like that, but gender dynamics are the real jewel in this book for me). Maybe it is, but I just couldn't bring myself to keep looking for angles when the rules of the game seemed to be changing so frequently. Even the outrageous tumbler-acclaimed 'Cool Girl speech' seems flat against the outcome. Hadn't Nick been a 'Cool Guy' as well, in the end? I don't know. I would have to fill this post with spoilers in order to conduct a thorough analysis and, then again, the ending is so unsettling that I can't know just now how I feel about it. I'm too jet-lagged from finishing this ride. I should finally get some sleep now.