Gone Girl was one of the best books I had read up until the last few pages. Then it became the worst book I'd ever read.  To paraphrase one of the customer reviews on Amazon: "This book is like a fine bottle of tequila with an ugly worm at the bottom." I could not have said it better.  For such a good, imaginative mystery to end so badly was a mystery in itself. How could the author, Gillian Flynn,  so smart, so creative be so clueless about how to end her story? Foolishly I assumed the producers of the film would fix the ending. They did not. And the ending is more offensive visually than in print. That they did not know to change the ending is a sad commentary on our current culture's lack of any sense of a clear distinction between right and wrong, or any content of character. That this book and film are so successful is not good. Spoiler alert!!  Do not read further if you have not read the book or seen the film and intend to do...(Read Full Post)