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read_to_read's review
3.0
Felt like an air of profoundness was forcefully injected in, giving the impression that the author needed to prove how smart they were to the reader. It's unfortunate, that feeling of snobbery distracted me from an otherwise great piece.
viewjanthakan's review
5.0
I still have this romanticization towards New York after have finished reading, no matter how Didion wrote this essay of her departure of the city. Because the essay per se adds up the imaginary notion of New York in my head, and since I have never physically visited it, I would love to give the place a try, to visit; or, for a brief moment, to live there.
alexandravp's review
5.0
"It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended..."
captain_bob's review
5.0
Wow! This one hit me in the gut. I lived for a time in New York when I was younger and this essay brought it all back. Now I understand why this piece is included in some many collected anthologies of great essays.
lschul6's review
reflective
medium-paced
"I was very young in New York, and at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young anymore"
radiodarkblue's review
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
"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 every procrastination, every word, all of it."
doc_k55's review
4.0
This is just one essay out of a longer book. It was a little hard to read: Didion wrote in long, run-on sentences, but somehow, around the 60% mark, I understood exactly where she was going with this piece. Essentially, it's about leaving New York - but it's more about the process of falling in and then out of love with New York. Or perhaps - that leaving is something metaphysical as well as concrete. Not the easiest of personal essays to read but very interesting