Political Fictions

Joan Didion is a talented author and I have enjoyed the other two books of hers that I read, but I found I couldn't get into a lot of the essays in this book. While they are comprehensive and often shed light on events that I hadn't learned of previously, I found that many dragged on beyond necessity. Summarize, summarize, summarize: the key to effective essay writing. My favourite of these might be 'Political Pornography,' and it is incidentally also the shortest. I would recommend just reading that instead of working through the whole collection, although there are definitely a few other gems here. On average, it earns my 3 star rating (perhaps 3.2 stars, but that's just pedantic).