Anyone else disappointed with Gone Girl ending?

Mmack - this is the wider issue of genre snobbery isn't it? Writing a good genre novel is a hugely underrated ability, and so many supposed writers of literary fiction make a real hash of it when they try.

Lavenderhoney, you are so right-the first half of Gone Girl was very, very similar in plot to Never Look Away. Did you ever read Harlan Coben's The Innocent? It also has a wife who mysteriously disappears and it is a great story.
I think good crime writing is an underestimated art and books that have elements of crime fiction in a broader story often don't work particularly well. I'm thinking of Appletree Yard and The Goldfinch as recent examples of books that got it a bit wrong. I think Gone Girl and The Husband's Secret were two that had tighter plots and worked better.

Didn't like the book at all - it wasn't a page-turner for me. I have been around the block' a few times and have read my fair share of brilliant thrillers so maybe I'm just jaded about its quality (or lack of).

Still want to see the film though! DH went to see it and thought it very good indeed (although he hasn't read it!).

Ooh, intrigued now. :)

I've just come from the film, having loved the book. All I can say is: go and see it. You will feel very satisfied by the ending, I promise you.

If you read Linwood Barclay, " never look away" you will feel gone girl was exactly the same story, as though the author lifted straight from that and unfortunately not as good as Barclay.

Feeling quite controversial:)

I enjoyed reading the book - very easy to read - towards the end it was like watching a gruesome game of tennis. They just kept batting worse and more incredulous shit back and forth at each other, until it reached fever pitch, and then there was nowhere else to go with, except for the ending that eventuates. It was sort of inevitable.

Keen to see the film.

If the ending has been changed, I will be very, very surprised if it's not to Amy getting her comeuppance.

I have to say Gone Girl gives the MRA types a lot more mileage in the 'women routinely make false rape allegations' trope... And of course most of them won't have the wit and wherewithal to realise that it was a total sociopath who actually did make it up.

I quite liked it! I did skim the last bit though as I was bored so it can't have been that good. Am interested to find out how the film ends!

Yes, I hated the ending. Although I did like the rest of it. Except for two things 1) the author twice described people as smelling 'vaginal' and the repetition really stood out because it was such an odd description and 2) the sister being called 'Go' just really pissed me off as I juet couldn't imagine anyone abbreviating Margo to Go.

I read it as it had been left in a holiday place we rented. Had totally forgotten about it until all this talk of the film and now I've remembered how much it irritated me ( not quite enough to stop me reading and throw it in the pool though!)

Read the book when it was on the 'must read' list at the library and was expecting a bigger twist to the tale at the end.

To me, its gone on the 'didn't get the hype' pile.

Am hoping the film is better.

Thought the book was over rated but the film gets excellent reviews by trusted film critics. I think David Fincher is excellent and I'm sure he's put his own stamp on this book and improved upon it. Can't wait to see it!

I was really hoping for a better twist then one of the characters turning out to be the stock "Bitter, Shell of a Person", who overpopulate modern thrillers.

I thought the ending was equally fitting and frustrating, but I really longed for something a bit smarter/more surprising.

Exactly. I thought she'd written a really good first half and then didn't know where to go with it so let it all get more and more implausible until it just didn't really work any more.

Loved the first half - hated the second. I thought it was like she'd put all her energy into writing the first half and then got bored....

Loved it right up till the ending. Couldn't put it down, stayed up till the small hours absolutely riveted, flicked the page and it was all over.Cop out.

I'm curious about the film ending too. I think it's well worth a trip to the cinema instead of waiting for the DVD. Sometimes mediocre books make excellent films and vice versa. I think they did a good job with casting this and I've enjoyed everything David Fincher directed except Benjamin Button.

Well the book itself was an easy-to-read romp. I didn't like the ending but not really because she got away with it, as someone said, very bad people do get away with things. I just didn't buy that he would stay. Oh Lord I bet Hollywood have got her getting just desserts. Or have they?!

I liked the ending-it tied up all the loose ends and was true to the characters. However I don't think it was all that original. I'm thinking Gillian Flynn might have read Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent at some point.

I read a good few pages and thought I'm not ploughing through this lot. And went to the end. Glad I didn't persevere with it.

I agree with Pictish, not sure how else it could end really. I hated the book and have no idea why it was so popular when her other two books were so good especially Sharp Objects. The ending was the only good thing about GG imo.

I thought the ending was perfect really. They deserved each other, and really...horrible people get away with all sorts of despicable shit without anyone ever finding out about it.
If anything, the ending was more realistic than any other would have been.

Very disappointed! I too wanted Amy to meet a grisly end or go to prison.

Really want to see the film though. Over all, I loved the book.

I was disappointed that horrible bitch Amy got away with it. I quite liked Nick and was hoping he'd kill her.

Not a great book but G.F made me dislike one character like I've never experienced before when reading a book so that in itself is an achievement.

Yes I disliked this ending (and all the characters) heartily!