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Envato Videohive videohive — Love the concept, but the story could not be fully told in such short bursts.

Marcus Coelho marcusccoelho — This is a collection of essays by the great Joan Didion. I say "great" having only read this book, with the full knowledge that she wrote a lot of other stuff. But this book was great, and the rest of her work, if "The White Album" is any indication, must also be great. She delves into a number of topics surrounding her life and the parts of it in the Golden State of California (also a little in Hawaii). The essays, though sometimes disjointed by time periods and far from forming a continuous narrative, do serve as something of an autobiography taken as a whole. She travels from her days as a young writer hanging out with the Doors through parts of her marriage that most writers would dread even thinking about (what gets us is not the tempest, but the doldrums) to the convoluted traffic and water systems of L.A. to the weird definition of normalcy carved out of the former Governor Ronald Reagan's estate. If I could write like Joan Didion, I wouldn't be writing on goodreads.com. Or I would, but under the surname "Joan Didion." But I can't. If you want to get through some tough times, you can read this book to fill your mind with absence and loss. In a good way. It's like the dharma of clinical depression: observational, slightly detached, elegant, and placid. One of the characters in Richard Linklater's film "Waking Life" put it pretty well, "Yes, emptiness. But such a fullness of emptiness."

Jacqueline Rice jackierice80 — Some people love it, some people don't. I don't. Couldn't even finish it, as a matter of fact. I realized after about 100 pages that if I wasn't laughing now, I wouldn't be further into the story. Had to put it down.

Stig Dou 3429848626db8 — Marco Lorestan, the hero of this story, is the lesser-known brother to Mary Lennox and Sara Crewe (and I guess Little Lord Fauntleroy, which, unbelievably, I have never read). I've always wondered why so few people have heard of this book, because Burnett's other stories are so famous, and the theme, about a clever, odd, out-of-place child coming of age in trying circumstances is very similar. It might be because all the characters are male and Burnett is not an especially convincing masculine writer; I think it probably also has a lot to do with the political overtones of the plot, which centers around the restoration of a fictional Eastern European monarchy. The story is engaging and exciting as always, but feels a little more legendary and less realistic than her other books, as it follows Marco and his friend Rat on an undercover mission across Europe to alert a secret society of Samavian patriots that the time has come to bring the Samavian royal line out of hiding.