This was my first time reading Didion and it seems my expectations were too high or perhaps misinformed. I was anticipating wonderful, insightful, witty prose but got run-on, hard to follow sentences one after another that led nowhere. I don't usually mind plotless books but this honestly felt like a waste of time. I'm looking forward to reading her other books though - if something positive was needed to mention, the characters were believably unlikable in their self-obsessed, vapid privileged bubble. Perhaps I'm not used to her style of writing - perhaps I just don't "get" it.