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When we first encounter Nick Dunne and Amy Elliott, they have just met and seem perfect for each other, falling in love almost instantly.
“Um, I’m actually Team Nick,” I said to a very pregnant Gillian Flynn who was signing my #TeamAmy shirt, the one a bookstore employee had given me just minutes before.
“Gone Girl,” the movie: Gillian Flynn’s thriller novel had us so riveted and when we finished reading the (frustrating) last chapter, we resisted the urge to scream and set out to buy her other books instead. This year, Flynn fans will get the chance to see it on the big screen. We can’t say we were surprised that a movie studio picked up “Gone Girl”—we knew the first time we read it that it would make a great film. And the sneak peek tweeted by 20th Century Fox showing Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne and a photo of his missing wife Amy (played by Rosamund Pike) just fueled our excitement. We like the casting choices and we have high hopes for the movie, especially since Flynn wrote the screenplay, too. Hurry up, our popcorn is ready.
It started in November last year, when I called my grandma while standing in the middle of National Book Store’s Shangri-La Mall branch. “La, I’m at National. Are there any books you want from here?”
