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A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Hypnotic and scary." --Stephen King "I am riveted, aghast, aroused, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious." --Lena Dunham From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2014, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age. When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she'll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight--the perfect place for a "chance" meeting. As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck's life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck's perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way--even if it means murder. A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that's being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King's Misery.
A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Hypnotic and scary." --Stephen King "I am riveted, aghast, aroused, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious." --Lena Dunham From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2014, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age. When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she'll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight--the perfect place for a "chance" meeting. As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck's life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck's perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way--even if it means murder. A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that's being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King's Misery.
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It’s not often you read a book like this, from the perspective of the antagonist. This book creeped me out to no end, just because of how real it could be. Makes you not trust anyone. I also love the writing style, it was very unique. A disturbing story but a good one. Can’t wait to read book 2.
You is another one that's been on my shelf for a long time, and with the release of the new series, I figured it was finally time to read this one. I sped through it quickly. It was like a a bad accident you can't look away from. I was afraid this one would scare me too much with its plausibility, but, thankfully, while I found it chilling, it wasn't keep-me-up-at-night scary. What is so great about this book is you find yourself enthralled with Joe. The bad guy. Most of the time I liked him better than Beck. But thankfully, by the end, the world was righted on its axis and I felt like a proper human being again.
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this book was the first thriller genre book that i’ve read and wow. it was very creepy and unsettling. seeing the world through the narrator and main character’s eyes was very strange and very interesting. it didn’t completely knock my socks off however, since this isn’t the style i typically read. i’m not quite sure if i liked the book or not, it’s kind of a like and not like for me.
I saw the series first, so I knew what I was expecting, but still very enjoyable as there are a lot of differences still to be had.
Since the book is told completely from Joe's perspective and given how warped his mind is it's easy to think that how he tells things are definitely either worse or in some cases better off than he tells it.
I'll give an example Peach, given that the other friends avoid her you can tell she's pretty insufferable, but it's only made worse by HOW joe describes her.
Beck, my goodness for a character who could be more she's not only boring, but insufferable and definitely needs to be validated with all her daddy issues. Not axed by my stalker worthy, so I feel for her.
How Joe excuses for her even though (given that the girl has no way of knowing) she treats him crappy makes so much sense for his character. I never once feel empathy for him, but sometimes you want to yell and be like JOESPH WHAT THE HECK MAN
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