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Vulture: Here’s Why You Should Read (or Reread) Gone Girl This Week
Because it's great.
As in a Hitchcock classic, the story logic of Gone Girl is so tight that you don't even notice the impossible flights of fancy the books asks you to swallow. Even if you know the twists in store, there's still a lot to enjoy, from the crackerjack plotting to the needle-sharp characterizations, to the dark notes of social satire (we'd forgotten the incredibly creepy sequence set at the mall).
Because you'll want to reread the "Cool Girl" speech again.
The act-two monologue about "Cool Girls" has taken on such a life of its own that it's easy to forget the words are the musings of a sociopath. Still, it's a remarkable piece of writing, probably the best in the book. We've reprinted the opening here, to remind you:
Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, **** on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.
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The way it's overshadowing your faves 
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