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jhcopp 's review for:
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan Didion
As with The White Album Didion does an excellent job of presenting things just so. Her ability to write around the everyday and plainly apparent to make a grander (sometimes elliptical) point is top-notch, and a pleasure to read. Overall I think I prefer the topics written about in The White Album, but there’s very little to complain about here. She can be self-indulgent and, even while explaining someone’s mindset to you, a bit narrow-minded, but she is so often eloquent and correct that it’s hard to hold too strongly against her.