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sarahchappy's review against another edition
4.0
never misses, though some were less engaging than others
tildahlia's review against another edition
3.0
In my view, Didion does memoir best. I wasn't taken by her essays at all and found myself skimming them. However, the writings on her life (particularly 'Goodbye to All That') resonated and were incredibly moving.
fbroom's review against another edition
4.0
"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."
“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
"That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and ever procrastination, every word, all of it.”
The first part contained essays that gave us portraits of different people (John Wayne, Comrade Laski, Howard Hughes, the Hippies in Haight-Ashbury and more”. The second contained personal essays (Morality, Respect, Going Home and more) and the third part contained essays about places, her hometown Sacramento, New York, Los Angeles and more.
"Goodbye to All That” was probably my favorite essay and it was the last one as well in the book.
"Slouching Toward Bethlehem” was probably the most famous (the title of the book) and told the story of those who lived in Haight-Ashbury without really telling it.
“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
"That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and ever procrastination, every word, all of it.”
The first part contained essays that gave us portraits of different people (John Wayne, Comrade Laski, Howard Hughes, the Hippies in Haight-Ashbury and more”. The second contained personal essays (Morality, Respect, Going Home and more) and the third part contained essays about places, her hometown Sacramento, New York, Los Angeles and more.
"Goodbye to All That” was probably my favorite essay and it was the last one as well in the book.
"Slouching Toward Bethlehem” was probably the most famous (the title of the book) and told the story of those who lived in Haight-Ashbury without really telling it.