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informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
The foreword and narration by Hilton Als were some of the worst things I've consumed this year. The speaking was stilted in such a way, halting in the middle of phrases, that the content was hard to understand. A pet peeve of mine is forwards that spoil the content they're introducing, and this one did just that. I was very close to abandoning the audiobook when Didion's writing began and the narrator changed. I like Didion's writing style, and I'd like to read more of her works, but I think it would be more productive for me to read them slowly, one essay at a time, or to read her longer works. I'm starting to think I may just not like essay collections. Collecting all of this artfully sculpted nonfiction in such a way that it's funneled to the reader one after another, out of it's original context made them feel incomplete to me.
Content Warnings
Minor: Misogyny, Suicide, and Terminal illness
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