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Title: Democracy by Joan Didion ISBN: 0-679-75485-7 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Democracy: A Dud
Comment: Joan Didion's novel "Democracy," is one about American Politics and the Vietnam War, public and private live, the media, and to an extent image management. The story, however, focuses mostly on Inez Victor, the daughter of a powerful Hawaiian congressman. I personally found the book to be quite a bore, as there simply weren't many "jolts" to keep a teenager like me interested. This being said, I did enjoy a couple of things about the novel. The first would be the way that Didion inserts herself into her novels. She puts herself into the novel as a character narrating the events and inserting her own thoughts as if she was there, in the novel. I also enjoyed reading about the mysterious Jack Lovett. I felt that this character was a brilliant creation by Didion. This is simply because, although he is very close to Inez, no one ever knows what he actually does. He is described as an army officer, a man who sets up export credit programs and AID funding, and an aircraft executive. He refers to himself as a "business man." Those were probably the only two things I really enjoyed about this novel. I wouldn't recommend it as a summer reading, but if you choose to defy my wishes, then read it for stylistic analysis of Didion's writing, if anything.
Rating: 5
Summary: An old-fashioned story with post modern mannerisms
Comment: Joan Didion's Democracy is more evidence that she's a writer always worth reading. I have some questions about why she chose to insert "Joan Didion" the report-writer into this story, and why she spends so much time discussing the book she decided not to write (a big epic family Hawaiian novel--but didn't James Michener or someone already do that?), but there is a really good love story here, intense and tight, with lots of gripping details about Hawaii and political campaigning
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Title: After Henry by Joan Didion ISBN: 0679745394 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion ISBN: 0679754865 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Play It As It Lays: A Novel by Joan Didion ISBN: 0374521719 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Run River (Vintage International) by Joan Didion ISBN: 0679752501 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Joan Didion, Frank Rich ISBN: 1590170733 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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