Reviews - Play It as It Lays

5.09k reviews for:

Play It as It Lays

Joan Didion

3.9 AVERAGE

ventrobi1313's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A book with a feverish pace and a structure as scattered and bewildering as the narration. Desolate, debauched, and near hopeless, a book in which nothing is truly important, and the most important thing of all is nothing.

theuncultured's review against another edition

5.0

Superb, gut-wrenching, sad, oh so sad! This book is about mental illness, fame (or lack of), notoriety... in better words, it was a quiet entrance to the darkest parts of human misery. I always meant to find out about Didion and I'm so glad I did. She writes so magnificently with zero tolerance for false realities. Straightforward, gripping, beautiful prose.

sarcasmandscifi's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gegao97's review against another edition

5.0

Maybe Didion is just Plath for your twenties, with that same glamorous malaise— trading luscious, branching fig trees for driving too fast down desert freeways.