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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
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I'm a bit lukewarm on journalism from this era, I'm afraid...
funny
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reflective
relaxing
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
My first time reading Didion and her writing blew me away. Her prose flows flawlessly, dripping with beautiful concise and accurate detail. She had the power to transform the seemingly everyday into the fascinatingly poetic. It feels as though I could read anything she wrote and enjoy it.
hopeful
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inspiring
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slow-paced
Didion escribe casi con crueldad. Su estilo es delicioso y cruel, frío. Su sinceridad es apabullante. Logra con la forma del ensayo algo que no he visto en muchos escritores. Un libro magnífico de una pluma magnífica.
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medium-paced
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The essays in this collection were good but not as good as I expected knowing Didion's reputation. She writes well but there's a overarching expression of world-weariness and emotionally distant cynicism in all of them, that becomes too predictable too soon. I waited to be surprised or moved but rarely experienced either. The final essay in this collection is the best: Goodbye to All That. I also much preferred the 'personals' of the second half to the essays about California of the first. There are many references that I had to look up, that a contemporary reader would not have had to , but that's to be expected as the essays were written in the mid to late 1960s.