The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking
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Author: Joan Didion
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-02-13
ISBN: 1400078431
Number of pages: 227
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Pretentious Drivel
Summary: 1 Stars

I was forced to read this dreadful book in a class run by a pashmina wearing, Idries Shah(latan) reading, Leonard Cohen listening hippie and it reminded me of the character Lois Cook, the author of "The Gallant Gallstone" in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead.

As a consequence of reading this name-dropping oddity's cartesian/oedipal-amalgam/episcopalian prattle I needed to delouse myself of the hubric-literatti adulation normally reserved for figures like Princess Diana and Barack Obama with some Mencken, Tom Wolfe and PJ O'Rourke for a substantial period afterward; I ought to warn people that this book is subversive to the current social order in a way that the author never sought to apprehend - ironically to the extent that it vindicates the theory of the intentional fallacy in the eyes of those who know better and drives people of a liberal, tolerant disposition over to the political right.

Summary of The Year of Magical Thinking

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

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