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| Gone Boy: A Walkabout: A Father's Search for the Truth in His Son's Murder | 
 enlarge | Author: Gregory Gibson
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 877109
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0385720041
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092
EAN: 9780385720045
ASIN: 0385720041
Publication Date: October 3, 2000
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 Not since Capote's In Cold Blood have I been as spellbound September 17, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood have I been as spellbound by a book. The author of Gone Boy's thoughts and emotions struggling courageously to come to grips with a universe literally blown to smithereens are palpable on every page. The reader's responses run the gamut from horror to laughter, ever guided by Mr. Gibson's sense of irony and truth. The book puts me in mind of Pirsig's classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, combined with the drumming vector of Lee Marvin's movie, Point Blank. His confusion and pain become our confusion and pain. His search for meaning and consolation becomes our search. The author's final coming to terms with his son's death through understanding and grace is this book's unique gift.
 the unspoken victims May 10, 2000
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
Not too much has been said about the other victims, the hapless young boys who were friendly with Wayne Lo before the murders. These young boys were hounded out of school by a seething, Salemesque mob and were blamed for not doing anything to prevent the killings. Killings which, for them, were as shocking, incomprehensible and traumatic as they were for the other students at the school. Their only "crime" was being friends with the shooter. They did not know, they could not know that Lo's boasts of wanting to shoot the place up were serious. How could they? They were only children themselves. Keep in mind that this incident occurred many years before the spate of senseless school shootings of recent years, which means that these boys had no point of reference, no reason to suspect that Lo was dangerously serious. Rather, blame the authorities who knew of Lo's problems (witness the undisclosed settlement paid to the victim's family) and did NOTHING. The young boys I speak of are still traumatized by this crime, but because of the stigma attached to them were deliberately kept out of the counseling process offered to the other students. They suffer every day for a crime they did not commit, nor were even able to predict. Please, a little understanding and kindness for these young boys, the unspoken victims.
 Disappointing September 13, 1999
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I truly wanted to like this work - a story about a father's journey to come to terms with the senseless loss of his son by bullets fired randomly from the gun of another child. But unfortunately, Gibson's work comes across as an angry journal - more like self-psychotherapy than an interesting read. It is fragmented and uneven. From the heart to the page, something got lost in the translation.
An emotional journey December 14, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once I started reading Gone Boy, I could not put it down. Many times the words were a blur as tears filled my eyes thinking of Mr. Gibson's pain. He writes in a style that bears his soul and makes him as vulnerable and racked with pain as you and I would be in the same situation. However, he deals with it in a most unique way, he trys to find out all he can about Galen's murder, from the mental state of his killer to the manufactuer of the ammunition and everything in between. The most fascinating aspect of it all is that Mr. Gibson searches for all the components of his son's murder and gives us a picture of how all of these fragments happened to come together in the same place and time on that tragic day. My heart goes out to him and his family. His story is a sad one but necessary for the healing process.
wow! April 18, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gregory Gibson takes the reader on a painful journey and makes it bearable.I appreciate his objectivity and honesty.No one can really understand what it is like to lose a loved one through murder but this book will bring you as close as possible.About the reviews chastising him for being angry:grieving people are angry,life has been pulled out from under them,control is gone, and yet the world marches on,rarely acknowledging their pain.That is part of the gift of this book,it is a real portrait of how prolonged grief is and how complicated.Maybe those naysayers were expecting some Oprahesque,shallow resolve.
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