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evilbag's review against another edition
4.0
"i believed that days would be too full forever, too crowded with friends there was no time to see. i believed, by way of contemplating the future, that we would all be around for one another's funerals. i was wrong. i had failed to imagine, i had not understood. here was the way it was going to be: i would be around for henry's funeral, but he was not going to be around for mine"
thelostwayne's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.25
I love Joan Didion. She could write the phone book and I’d read it.
zellm's review against another edition
3.0
Although Didion's prose is always a delight to read, descriptively speaking, these stories were just not often on topics that interested me. The focus on criminal cases piqued my interest, but the middle of the book was generally a little boring, and lacked Didion's narrative voice, which was disappointing.
charlottesalusinszky's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.0
This is probably not the best introduction to Joan Didion’s work, and is hard to relate to if aren’t already familiar with or interested in the contexts of the essays.