I tried reading this short story as an e-book a few weeks ago and gave up 2/3rds of the way through because it was stupid (it’s only 67 pages, and I couldn’t finish it on the first try — that stupid). Then Caitlin_D bought a copy, so I thought I’d give it a try. I was really excited to see that Flynn threw in a great plot twist just after I quit reading the first time. Then it got stupid again, and while I did […]
You Like Ghost Stories?
Thanks to George R.R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story. -acknowledgements Gillian Flynn wrote The Grownup as a short story to be published in George R.R. Martin’s Rouges anthology and it was later released as a stand alone novella. The story starts out as standard Gillian Flynn; an unnamed female narrator, who has a twisty past, finds herself stuck in the middle of a chilling battle between a mother, her step-son and a mysterious house. The Grownup could have benefits from another […]
George asked her to write a ghost story
This book was written by Gillian Flynn, who you might all know from writing that book that nobody read, “Gone Girl”. JK, I’m pretty sure everyone read it. She actually wrote this book because George R.R. Martin (author of those other books that nobody read – A Song of Ice and Fire) asked her to write a ghost story. It’s really short. I think I read it in about an hour, which was pretty awesome. We originally get introduced to the main character as a […]
Short tale by Flynn a worthwhile read
The Grownup was originally published likely to fill the gap in new Gillian Flynn product a few years after Gone Girl released and Flynn has been preoccupied with various television outings,including the HBO adaptation of Utopia with David Fincher. The Grownup first appeared in a collection of short stories called Rogues last year, curated by George R.R. Martin. Another writer who does everything else short of writing his their next book. But I digress. Since Flynn stormed the charts with the brilliant Gone Girl there […]