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4.12 AVERAGE
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Not my favorite Joan Didion
I reread this book during life transformations. It’s changed me three times now
Beautiful writing. The subject matter could not always retain my interest but then Didion would drop another impeccably crafted sentence and have me hooked again.
What can I say it’s Joan fucking Didion and she is my teacher and my lover in my dreams.
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slouching towards berlin, goodbye to all that in montreal
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Joan Didion is a phenomenal writer and this collection of essays includes some of my favorite work of hers that I’ve read so far. Some of these essays were a perfect 5/5 such as “some dreamers of the golden dream”, “on keeping a notebook”, and “goodbye to all that”; I found myself having to reread some of her writing because her prose is just too good to read once. I also can’t believe this was written in 1968 and she is somehow able to capture my exact emotions that I thought no one else could relate to more accurately than any piece of current writing I’ve read. Her writing is so beautiful and emotional, I both laughed and cried while reading this. My only complaint is that some essays I had to force myself to get through but maybe I’ll have a different opinion after re-reading in a bit
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I loved a few of these essays, especially her more personal ones. Towards the end it dragged on for it and lost me in references I didn’t understand, so I’m probably just not the best audience. She does captures the specific time and place of California is the 60s incredibly well.