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Old 01-13-2013, 10:58 AM   #2470
Trilby
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot View Post
Finished listening to Gone Girl, per Pete Z's suggestion (He suggested the read, but I didn't have time)

I have to say the reading by two actors (man and woman) was brilliant. It was unabridged, like 18 hours of reading. I definitely could have read it faster, but the performances were masterful.

I was/am totally freaked out. Still freaked out. I have to read more of her stuff.
well, that clinches it. I'm buying it today on Kindle. I hope the plot includes some asshole in AA lecturing about her lack of commitment and she stabs him in the eye with a shiv. THAT's the book I'm looking for.
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