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    <body><![CDATA[the world in a grain of sand.  would recommend to interested parties Adam Gopnik and David Brock's &quot;The Republican Noise Machine&quot; as like reading.<br/><br/>that said--commas, so many commas, semicolons, parenthetical clauses, addendums, this, that &amp; the other, &amp; the other, &amp; the other--s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1575305">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still convinced that Joan Didion has never written a lackluster sentence in her life. The essays collected here turn the same wry, critical eye to California and New York in the 80s that &quot;Slouching Toward Bethlehem&quot; and &quot;The White Album&quot; did in the 60s and 70s. Everyone--part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32508580">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's not much I can say about Joan Didion. Just read her. Start with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424.Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem_Essays" title="Slouching Towards Bethlehem  Essays by Joan Didion">Slouching Towards Bethlehem</a>, and continue from there. Skip around if you want, but make sure you read the essays &quot;In the Islands&quot; and &quot;Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream&quot;, and as much of Salvador and Miami as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15726784">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[More essays from Didion, this time the 80's.  Though less spectacular than The White Album and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424.Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem_Essays" title="Slouching Towards Bethlehem  Essays by Joan Didion">Slouching Towards Bethlehem</a>, that may just be a comment on the decade, rather than on the writing, which is still dazzling in its starkness and spareness.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12317804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so since i did not grow up in america i had a very faint view of the political system before 1992 (the first five years were kind of a blur of english language and american tv). joan didion just made me see the world that i thought i would not care about, in a strange and interesting manner.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Not sure if I'll finish this one. It's true she makes some interesting and intelligent observations, but her commentary is really cemented in the Reagan years and she assumes the reader has a certain knowledge base. I'm not quite there.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It kills me to give a work by Didion anything less than five stars, but getting through most of the pieces in this collection was like torture. I really liked &quot;After Henry&quot; and &quot;Fire Season,&quot; though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a collection of essays divided into 3 sections: Washington- California- and New York.  Many of the essays where boring- almost tedious at times.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite Didion book.  She's usually so completely spot-on, but I felt like the race essays on 80's New York just kinda...missed it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Didion writes with a clarity and grace usually found only in pure mountain spring water. These essays are a delight. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Joan Didion's writing, however the subjects of this book did not really interest me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course I like this. She devotes a sectoin to my first crush, Michael Dukakis.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[After Henry]]>
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    <![CDATA[In her latest forays into the American scene, the author of Miami, Democracy, and Salvador covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles and from a TV producer's mansion to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. And along the way, she reveals the mythic narratives that other commentators miss.]]>
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