A Novel (FSG Classics)
by Joan Didion
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“Just finished “Play It As It Lays” on the plane. That book fucked me up. Powerful and painful read. #joandidion”
Source →Recommended by 3 notable people, including Frank Chimero and Jack Edwards
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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively ...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Fiction.
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Jack Edwards
“Just finished “Play It As It Lays” on the plane. That book fucked me up. Powerful and painful read. #joandidion”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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