The Year of Magical Thinking
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461 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 05, 2007 Type: User Review |
Joan Didion's book
It saddens me deeply to see anyone suffer loss of loved ones. This book travels the gamut of sorrow in a way that is not common. Ms Didion is unable to bleed all over herself in public and only God knows how she behaved in private. It was obvious...
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
She relayed her sense of loss very well
The overwhelming feeling is of loneliness. She had a lot of friends and most probably acquaintances to keep her from being by herself, but the person she confided in and shared life with, was gone. The person who knew her probably better than...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 25, 2007 Type: User Review |
Truly Magical
This is a beautiful, beautiful book. I had read articles, reviews and essays by Didion, and had enjoyed her writing, but I had never had the opportunity to truly recognize just how good a writer she is.
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 25, 2007 Type: User Review |
life onwards
The author writes of personal tragedy and the human suffering that follows. She cites all her personal experiences and in a rare instance made me feel heartfelt for her cause to survive.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 20, 2007 Type: User Review |
Just a personal record of grief
I don't think Ms Didion intended this as a roadmap for dealing with grief; just a very personal record of how she dealt with it. I recently lost my wonderful mother, and maybe that explains why I found it engrossing. I just couldn't put it down....
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 16, 2007 Type: User Review |
Raw, Painful and Not to be Missed
Joan Didion lost her husband, John Gregory Dunne, as they were sitting down to dinner on December 30, 2003. What follows is an amazing journey (one that hadn't been completed by the end of the book) through the deals we make with ourselves and...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 29, 2007 Type: User Review |
Fascinating read
I'd heard of Joan Didion but had never read her before. I liked this book very much. There is something raw and bare and revealing about the prose; its chill stays with you. It approaches truth. I noticed some other reviewers disliked the book...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
Comfort for the Grieving
Didion gracefully and movingly describes the surreal "magical" thinking that is part of the early grieving process. This includes the strange games of denial we play in our minds and the obsessions (what Didion calls the "vortex") that memory of...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 14, 2007 Type: User Review |
The Anatomy of Grieving
Joan Didion's husband of 40 years, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a sudden heart attack during a quiet evening in their Manhattan apartment in 2003. They'd just returned from visiting their only daughter, Quintana, in a coma and septic...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 12, 2007 Type: User Review |
Just Okay
With a topic like death, you almost have a sure winner. There will always be readers who react strongly (and sympathetically) about death.
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3.00/5 |
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