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The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.93 — 290,074 ratings — published 2005
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.18 — 80,270 ratings — published 1968
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.03 — 48,421 ratings — published 1979
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,590 ratings — published 1970
Blue Nights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,963 ratings — published 2011
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,429 ratings — published 2021
South and West: From a Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.69 — 14,969 ratings — published 2017
Where I Was From (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,301 ratings — published 2003
Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,212 ratings — published 1984
A Book of Common Prayer (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,369 ratings — published 1977
The Last Thing He Wanted (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.42 — 3,711 ratings — published
Run River (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,328 ratings — published 1963
Salvador (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,723 ratings — published 1983
Miami (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,965 ratings — published 1987
After Henry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,151 ratings — published 1992
Political Fictions (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,636 ratings — published 2001
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,131 ratings — published 2006
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,610 ratings — published 1955
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,776 ratings — published 1933
Speedboat (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,342 ratings — published 1976
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.82 — 347,494 ratings — published 1929
Victory (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,245 ratings — published 1915
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,404 ratings — published 1953
Guerrillas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,285 ratings — published 1975
The Berlin Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,660 ratings — published 1945
Appointment in Samarra (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,141 ratings — published 1934
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,039 ratings — published 2015
Wonderland (Wonderland Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,455 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,670 ratings — published 2003
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,975 ratings — published 1979
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,081,850 ratings — published 1967
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.67 — 28,396 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,042,521 ratings — published 1866
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,088 ratings — published 1976
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,981,602 ratings — published 1847
Live and Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.22 — 72 ratings — published 2005
Sentimental Journeys (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.98 — 126 ratings — published 1993
Vintage Didion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.08 — 538 ratings — published 2004
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.90 — 589 ratings — published 2003
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,559 ratings — published 1954
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.80 — 84,451 ratings — published 1881
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,203 ratings — published 2007
Notes to John (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,163 ratings — published 2025
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.38 — 174,191 ratings — published 1898
On Self-Respect (Essay)
by (shelved 3 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,378 ratings — published 1968
A View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.71 — 55 ratings — published 1955
Didion and Babitz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.24 — 4,980 ratings — published 2024
Why I Write (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.13 — 135 ratings — published 1976
From Here to Eternity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,013 ratings — published 1951
Daisy Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as joan-didion)
avg rating 3.37 — 37,330 ratings — published 1879
“Cos’è che rende malvagio Jago? Si chiede certa gente. Io non me lo chiedo mai.
Altro esempio, un esempio che viene in mente perché la signora Burstein stamattina ha visto un serpentello a sonagli tra i carciofi dell’orto e d’allora in poi è stata intrattabile: io non faccio mai domande sui serpenti. Perché il profumo Shalimar dovrebbe attrarre i crotali. Perché una serpe corallo dovrebbe aver bisogno di due ghiandole di veleno neurotossico per sopravvivere, mentre una serpe reale, che le somiglia in modo impressionante, non ne ha assolutamente bisogno. Dov’è andata a finire la logica darwiniana, in questo caso. Si potrebbe chiederselo. Io non me lo chiederei mai, né mi chiederei altro. Ricordo un episodio riportato non molto tempo fa nel Herald Examiner di Los Angeles: due sposini in luna di miele, originari di Detroit, trovati morti nel loro furgone Ford nei pressi di Boca Raton, un serpente corallo ancora arrotolato nella termocoperta. Perché? A meno che non si sia disposti a guardare le cose in una prospettiva più ampia, non ci sono «risposte» soddisfacenti a domande del genere.
Ecco. Io sono quel che sono. La ricerca delle «ragioni» non mi riguarda.”
― Play It As It Lays
Altro esempio, un esempio che viene in mente perché la signora Burstein stamattina ha visto un serpentello a sonagli tra i carciofi dell’orto e d’allora in poi è stata intrattabile: io non faccio mai domande sui serpenti. Perché il profumo Shalimar dovrebbe attrarre i crotali. Perché una serpe corallo dovrebbe aver bisogno di due ghiandole di veleno neurotossico per sopravvivere, mentre una serpe reale, che le somiglia in modo impressionante, non ne ha assolutamente bisogno. Dov’è andata a finire la logica darwiniana, in questo caso. Si potrebbe chiederselo. Io non me lo chiederei mai, né mi chiederei altro. Ricordo un episodio riportato non molto tempo fa nel Herald Examiner di Los Angeles: due sposini in luna di miele, originari di Detroit, trovati morti nel loro furgone Ford nei pressi di Boca Raton, un serpente corallo ancora arrotolato nella termocoperta. Perché? A meno che non si sia disposti a guardare le cose in una prospettiva più ampia, non ci sono «risposte» soddisfacenti a domande del genere.
Ecco. Io sono quel che sono. La ricerca delle «ragioni» non mi riguarda.”
― Play It As It Lays
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image...”
― The White Album
― The White Album
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