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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriacMoreFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows, a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Less

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Emily May

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8 months ago
Recommended to Emily May by: Tatiana

Shelves: mystery-thriller-horror , 2012
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

There is something deeply unhealthy about this book. It's in the characters, in the story, in the relationships, in the sex, and just in the general mood of the novel. Reading this made me feel a little unwe... Read full review
RandomAnthony

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almost 3 years ago

Last week I read the fuck out of Gillian Flynn's catalog. Three novels in eight days while my wife and kids were out of town and a sweltering late July marooned me in one of the house's two air conditioned rooms. So although this review is primarily for Sharp Objects, my... Read full review
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over 2 years ago

The razor blade on the front cover of the book is what one yearns for right after embarking on this read, sharp blade with which to cut every single page, one by one, until they are so neatly shredded that even the memory of what was written on them becomes non existent.... Read full review
Paquita Maria Sanchez

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almost 3 years ago

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Well, this was a pleasant surprise. I remember all the ruckus over Gillian Flynn a while back, and my resulting tracing (not carving) of a mental note on my palm that I should eventually read something by this gal because everybody was all in a tizzy over her wonderfulmou... Read full review
Tatiana

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almost 3 years ago
Recommends it for: fans of all things disturbing
Recommended to Tatiana by: Rachel Michaux

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers-horror , 2010 , only-i-will-like
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If you ask me which words come into my mind first whenever I think of this book, my answer will be: nasty, dark, twisted, disturbing.

In this rather traumatizing psychological thriller Camille Preaker, a troubled newspaper reporter, is sent to he... Read full review
Raeleen Lemay

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almost 2 years ago

*3.5/5*

I felt like this book was way too slow paced for how short it was, and it sort of bugged me that the big reveal and explanation was left to the VERY end. It was like nothing nothing nothing BAM EVERYTHING.

However, the ending was crazy and twisted and I loved it! I... Read full review
Mohammed Arabey

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16 days ago

عالم النساء..معقد، متشابك، صعب فهمه..مضطهدا سواء في مجتمعا شرقيا أم غربيا
وهذه الرواية الكئيبة السوداوية تقتحم جانب مظلم من هذا العالم

كتبتها أمرأه..تقتحم جوانب نفسية معقدة لثلاث شخصيات رئيسية من النساء بأعمار مختلفة..شخصيات قاتمة ، مظلمة
قد تجد بعض تصرفاتهم كريهة، بغيضة..صع... Read full review
karen

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almost 3 years ago

Shelves: sshh-family-secrets
okay so i,of course, was initially drawn to this book because it has shiny cover. i am like a magpie or a raccoon or something... and then it just sat on the shelf for ages and one day i read the description of it somewhere. and it's all "whore" on her ankle and "pain" on... Read full review
Samadrita

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almost 3 years ago
Recommended to Samadrita by: Jill's rating

Shelves: suspense-thrillers , crime-noir , spookfest , mystery-detective , disturbia , not-worth-it , real-issues-fake-people
When I had first come across rave reviews of Gone Girl, I was bowled over by the fact that there's after all a woman who is brave enough to try her hand at a genre rarely ventured into by women writers. And apparently, she excels at it too. Surely, she couldn't have hoodw... Read full review

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Book Details

Hardcover, 254 pages
Published September 26th 2006 by Shaye Areheart Books (first published 2006
ISBN
0307341542 (ISBN13: 9780307341549)
Edition Language
English
Original Title
Sharp Objects
Characters
Camille Preaker, Frank Curry, Amma Crellin, Adora Crellin, Chief Bill Vickery More…Camille Preaker, Frank Curry, Amma Crellin, Adora Crellin, Chief Bill Vickery, Alan Crellin, Marian Crellin, Richard Willis, Ann Nash, Natalie Keene Less
Literary Awards
Barry Award, The Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger, Edgar Award, CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

About this Author

2383. uy66 Gillian Flynn is an American author and television critic for Entertainment Weekly. She has so far written three novels, Sharp Objects, for which she won the 2007 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller; Dark Places; and her best-selling third novel Gone Girl.

Her book has received wide praise, including from authors such as Stephen King. The dark plot revolves around a serial killer in a...
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The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
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Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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