Suggesting this story to a friend.

I am currently reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. This is a thrilling novel about Nick and Amy. They are married and great together. They are in love but suddenly their relationship goes awry. They fall out of love for each other and they can't seem to find themselves back. One day Nick comes home to find that Amy is gone and his house is tampered with. He calls the police and starts his chain of lie. Although he did not kill Amy, he has many secrets. He has been cheating on Amy for a year now with one of his college students. Her name is Andie and he loves her. As the story goes on the media turns against him. Amy was pregnant when she disappeared, and this changes the whole mood Nick has towards her. He wants to make amends and be a family. Soon he finds out that she framed him for her murder and she wants to make him pay for the cheating he has done. He did not even know that she knew. Amy is missing and she left on purpose, to get back at Nick. The story will keep getting more complicated as the real "Amazing Amy" comes out in Amy and Nick finds himself at a dead-end.

What could I take away from today's reading to improve my life?

In today's reading of Gone Girl I read a lot of things. Nick, one of the main characters in this book, lies to the police and gets himself in trouble. You should never lie to the police even if what you have to tell them is really bad. Lying will only make things worse for you as time goes on. Also, this will bother you and eat away at you if you know you have done something wrong such as lying to the police. When Nick lies to the police he has to backtrack and tell another lie to cover up his previous one. The police are already suspicious about him and he is not helping his case by lying to them. The stuff he has to tell them is not all that bad anyway and by telling them he would free himself of that burden. He would only be helping the police find his wife. He should be telling them everything he knows that will help in order to get Amy back. Overall, I learned that you should always tell the full truth to the police because by lying you just make it worse for yourself. Hopefully I will never have to talk to the police though.

Main character as my Friend

Nick is one of the main characters in the book, Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. I would not want Nick to be my friend. Nick is a very sketchy individual. In the book he says that he is lying to the police. This makes me wonder about him. He was counting the amount of times he lied to the police during the investigation process and that creeps me out. Also, during the press conference he smiled. Instead of being sad he smiled while talking about Amy. It was an evil smile that will make the police suspect stuff of him. So far I do not like Nick. When Amy talks about their past it is always about how she did something to make Nick happy and it didn't work or when he was being mean and she did something to make him happy when really he should have been apologizing. Amy does anything and everything to make Nick happy and be a good wife without nagging him or anything and he still walks all over her. I have a weird feeling that Nick is cheating on Amy and I hate people who cheat of  spouses. Overall, I am not a big fan of Nick and would not want him as a friend.

Likes and Dislikes

I am reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. So far this book gets off to a slow start. I am having a hard time following along and staying into this book because it is very slow. I like how there are different perspectives involved throughout this book. In one chapter you will here what is happening from Nick, the husband, and in another you hear stuff from Amy. The main thing I do not like about this book is that when it is Amy's chapter and she talks about the past. I would like to hear what is happening in the case from her perspective and hear stuff from her. I understand by her doing that it would give away the story but some of the stuff she talks about is irrelevant to the main idea. Although, I feel this way I know that this book will get way more exciting as it moves along and I will not be able to put it down.