“Sharp Objects”- Is it any good? I didn’t like Gone Girl and I wanted some opinions before I buy.
“Sharp Objects”- Is it any good? I didn’t like Gone Girl and I wanted some opinions before I buy.
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In my opinion it was darker than gone girl
Agreed.
I agreed
It’s one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read. I read it right when it came out, and I still can’t shake the ending.
It has left me with that can’t shake it feeling too… I always get the “?” feeling when I think about it
Can’t wait to see what HBO is going to do with it… Amy Adams is going to kill it
@Rebecca oh FOR SURE!!
I read it so long ago, I don’t remember the ending!
Already set my dvr
Personally, i think Gone Girl is her weakest book.
It was so good! I wish she would hurry up and write more books!!
I read it years ago and remember liking it. I thought about reading it again now that it’s been turned into a tv show.
It’s my favorite book of Gillian Flynn’s. As others have stated, it is darker than Gone Girl.
Gone girl made me mad .. it was So anticlimactic ! Like all that lunacy for basically nothing
I really liked it. Definitely dark, but very good.
It is dark but it’s so good.
I liked Gone Girl a lot better…so I’d vote no
I think I might be the only person that quit reading it
And I like dark and creepy
I just finished it, and I liked it, but I liked Gone Girl. Reading Dark Places now.
Which did get made into a movie but I think it must have gone straight to DVD because I never saw anything about it being in theaters.
It did…i saw it on demand once. I would say the book was better, which is usually my opinion but I have high hopes for the Sharp Objects series.
Yeah, I started watching it and fell asleep and never got around to finishing it. But I agree, I think HBO will do Sharp Objects justice.
I still can’t shake that “holy crap” feeling at the end of it. Seriously good book.
Dark and Creepy are ok, just couldn’t connect with characters in Gone Girl
I say go for it, then. This is MUCH different!
Sharp Objects is much better than GG.
If it weren’t for this book club, I would never know what books have been made into shows! I just started watching The Five and was thrilled it was created by Harlan Coben, he’s one of my favorite authors. I had no idea Sharp Objects was made into a show.
I liked it a lot!
I did not care for it. Sharp Objects and Dark Places were very unsettling for me.
Dark, but very good
Twisted! I didn’t like it
The only one I’d her books I liked!
Very good! When is she coming out with a new book?
I really enjoyed it
I thought Sharp Objects was better than Gone Girl. Definitely very dark, though.
Yes! Excellent!
I read this years ago. It is super dark but I liked it. I thought it was better than Gone Girl.
Thanks ladies! Just downloaded it and have the next two weeks by the lake to enjoy it and a boatload of other books ??
Gone Girl was my least favorite of all of her books.
I thought I was the only one that didn’t care for Gone Girl. I couldn’t even finish it.
I preferred it over the other two.
I really liked it!
Loved it more than gone girl
Excellent, my favorite of hers. It kept me up the night I finished it!!
I loved gone girl. Gillian Flynn is amazing. Loved sharp objects couldn’t put it down. Then read dark places after that and then needed a break for a couple days from creepy.
Same. Creepy. ?
One of my favorites I’ve read this year.
Very good!
Her best book by far
I like both. They were very different. But pretty dark…
I liked it
Loved Sharp Objects. Never read Gone Girl
I listened to it on audio last month. I was excited each day to get back in my car to see what would happen next. However, I found the activities of the young girls to be ridiculously out of place. I found it way too far fetched. That was my only negative of the story. Otherwise, very entertaining & I’m looking forward to the HBO show.
good but i liked gone, girl better. quick, easy read though!
Liked it! Dark and twisty…
So good!
“Gone Girl” took me 1/2 the book to get interested. “Sharp Objects” is a good read, but I really loved “Dark Places”. In my opinion it’s the best of these 3 by Gillian Flynn and the movie adaptation with Charlize Theron did not disappoint!
Do you think so? I thought she was too tall to play the character and pictured Ellen Page?
Hmmm, I pictured Libby Day as a tough, tainted by life kinda girl which I think Charlize pulled off well.
I get her being tough but I feel like either by the description or who I pictured was smaller like frail looking, tainted definitely. Charlize to me is too tough like in a bad ass way lol. I liked the movie but I loved the book. I feel like they could have given it a little more. I think young Diondra’s casting was perfect though.
Sharp Objects is my favorite Gillian Flynn book! It was a serious mind twist.
I liked Sharp Objects, hated Gone Girl. I thought Dark Places was her best though.
Really? That was my least favorite of hers!
Katie Fulton I liked Libby. Camille was kind of just there, and I absolutely hated Amy and Nick. So of the three, Dark Places had the most likable set of characters lol.
I agree, Lauren. I liked the story line of Dark Places much better than Sharp Objects.
But, I will still watch the miniseries on HBO of Sharp Objects. I didn’t watch the movie version of Dark Places because they had Charlize Theron playing the role of Libby.
@Lauren thats so funny to me! i didnt like dark places at all!
@Amy yeah, I definitely can’t picture Charlize Theron as Libby. Nothing against her, but I don’t see it. I’ll probably try and catch Sharp Objects too.
I liked it a lot better than Gone Girl
You may not like it if you didn’t like Gone Girl. Definitely dark like others mentioned.
Agree.
Much better then Gone Girl , was not a fan of that book
Excellent book!!
I literally just finished it. It was good. The series based on the book is on HBO Sunday
L❤️VED ??
SOOOOOO much better than Gone Girl!!!! I had the same sentiments about Gone Girl amd was hesitant about her other books. They are WAY better. Give it a try
It was my favorite!
Didn’t care for gone girl and didn’t care for sharp object. Gillian Flynn is just not my author of choice
It’s my favorite Gillian Flynn! The only one that had a protagonist that I found at all sympathetic, so that may be why 🙂
That’s exactly why I couldn’t stand Gone Girl!
I enjoyed them all, but Gone Girl was my least favorite. They were such unlikable people!
Exactly. I didn’t care what happened to them, because I kind of hated them.
Yup, lol.
Loved it
Loved it
I just finished it and was incredibly disappointed. I felt as though it drug on and the peak was not satisfying.
Makes me so happy reading this thread. Could not figure out why Gone Girl was popular. Unlikable characters and I figured out so early where it was going. The only reason I kept going is I thought – surely there would be a twist, but alas it turned out exactly as I thought…
Loved it.
Just checked it out from the library today. First 50 pages are pretty good.
I didn’t love it, but didn’t love Gone Girl either.
I liked it
Yes! Very good!!
This is up next for me since the hbo show starts the 8th!
Loved it.
If you didn’t like Gone Girl, I wouldn’t read Sharp Objects. Gone Girl was twisted, right? Well, Sharp Objects is even more disturbing.
Agree sharp objects is disturbing and am curious how people will feel when they watch it. It’s one thing to read about it but to see people act it out and there are younger actors needed for the parts involved. Maybe they changed the ending? That was……
So true
I just finished Sharp Objects and I enjoyed it! It wasn’t as good as Gone Girl but it’s a fairly quick read so I liked the tempo of the twists and turns.
I thought it was interesting
I found it disturbing. And I don’t disturb easily
Loved all 3 of her books…
I love her books too. For me they are can’t put down read in a day and wish there were more!
It is on my TBR