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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

4.12 AVERAGE

lilymcl's review

5.0

informative reflective fast-paced

kitchenaid's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

minisam's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

amagumo's review against another edition

5.0

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Super enjoyable and readable - it lives up to the hype.

carolynsoroka's review against another edition

4.5

reflective medium-paced

crow6e098's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

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I thought this was gonna be more memoir-y... might pick up again sometime but library wants it back and I'm reading too many other things rn

crabbybarlow's review against another edition

5.0

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What an amazing group of essays, written about universal and personal topics. Joan didion writes in such a wonderfully precise way, I just want to pick it back up and read some again. They evoke certain emotions and time periods without being too flowery or too "of a certain era." Favorites were "some dreamers of the golden dream," "John Wayne: a love song," the title essay, "on going home," and "goodbye to all that." Prior to this I'd only read her two most recent about the deaths of her husband and child, but will definitely plan to go back and read more of her early work.

Side note: why did they choose such an angry looking picture of her to put on the front?

dumbfellini's review against another edition

4.0

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I. Lifestyles in the Golden Land
* "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" 4
* "John Wayne: A Love Song" 4
* "Where the Kissing Never Stops" 4
* "Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)" 3
* "7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38" 4
* "California Dreaming" 3
* "Marrying Absurd" 3
* "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" 5
II. Personals
* "On Keeping a Notebook" 5
* "On Self-Respect" 4
* "I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind" 5
* "On Morality" 3
* "On Going Home" 4
III. Seven Places of the Mind
* "Notes from a Native Daughter" 5
* "Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W" 3
* "Rock of Ages" 4
* "The Seacoast of Despair" 4
* "Guaymas, Sonora" 3
* "Los Angeles Notebook" 5
* "Goodbye to All That" 5

ethandickler's review against another edition

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To be young in New York City… 

ronpayne's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced