You
Caroline Kepnes
Editorial 369
$70
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.
“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 the Year, 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.
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Vera J. Jackson
It's good and it's great and it's creepy and it's stalkerish and you should read it
Wow this book was really good and it got into my bones and it really reeled me in and now I am typing in compound compound sentences so great was its effect.
Lol.
I came to this book via the Netflix (via Lifetime) show. Late in season 1, I discovered the show was based on this book. To my very pleasant surprise, I discovered I own this book on my Kindle (gasp). Kindles are so noveau and fashion forward and snotty and snooty and books should be touched and caressed and creased and written in. Books transfer germs.
Don’t mind if I reminisce a moment. I bought this Kindle book when it came out. I don’t remember doing so. I had only owned my Kindle for 1 month. How did I find it? This author had just written short stories before.
Jason S. Jacobson
Loved this brand of storytelling
Shel: You know what? It’s been days since I read You and I’m still thinking about it. It feels like an epic fail to even try to articulate all of the things that I’m thinking about this novel because they’re all twisted and knotted on each other. But, for you, I will try. Court: As you can see, I took a million days after Shelley to finish this one. Not for lack of love though, but for surplus of procrastination in other life affairs. BUT…You. Holy (edit). I am so in love with this author, and I absolutely adored the second person POV. I think it added a huge spice to the dynamic of the story, and I can just gush and gush from there.
Shel: Joe is…well…I have conflicted emotions about good ol’ Joe. Some of the observations he makes about our culture–the digital age/social media–are so interesting to me. They’re perceptive and disdainful and cynical and amusing and as I’m thinking this, I’m also thinking that for someone who looks down on it all, he sure does know his way around them. Even with his ornery self, I liked him. And then I didn’t like myself for liking him..for reasons. When you read, you’ll see. For instance, he has boundary issues.
Lakia J. Guinn
Books are always better than the shows/movies
First, let me start by saying WOW!!
Joe is such a sick individual. If you watched the show first, you already hear some of his thoughts and you know the actions. This book really went into the mind. Although sick and disturbing, I really enjoyed being able to know every single one of his thoughts, his reasonings behind certain actions. Highly recommend.
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