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A review by janeanger
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
3.0
I'll gather my thoughts and get back to you on this one.
Added 7/20/15
Didion's fiction is, to me, pretty absurd. The characters in this book are so unrealistic it's almost laughable, the plot slow and cerebral with most things happening inside the heads of aforementioned characters or at a dinner party. Why do so many things happen at dinner parties or airports in these people's world? That this book was published in the 70s is obvious throughout. I saw someone somewhere describe this book as containing "microscopic prose" and cannot think of my own original phrase that more aptly sums it up.
Added 7/20/15
Didion's fiction is, to me, pretty absurd. The characters in this book are so unrealistic it's almost laughable, the plot slow and cerebral with most things happening inside the heads of aforementioned characters or at a dinner party. Why do so many things happen at dinner parties or airports in these people's world? That this book was published in the 70s is obvious throughout. I saw someone somewhere describe this book as containing "microscopic prose" and cannot think of my own original phrase that more aptly sums it up.