I loved this book because I think it really captured how divorced from reality college students can become in elite colleges, where there's no emphasis on shared humanity, but rather, an intellectual heirarchy. I want to a college like this, and it was brutal.

Didion's writing style is amazing and the lens through which she views the world just as intriguing. Sometimes her work is difficult to read because she is NOT judgmental, even when reporting on the most horrific events/life styles.

Woolf's book changed my life, in that it made me think about the way history is presented, and how women and minorities have been shifted to the edges of the world again and again, and then blamed for the fact that they have not achieved anything.

DFW was a genius, with incredible insight into human relations and society.

So wonderful. I loved Strayed when she wrote for "Dear Sugar" and she has such insight into what it means to be human. Wild is lovely, descriptive, heart-breaking and scary.

One of the best written books in 20th century America. It's unfortunate the way it's taught in high school -- they manage to scrape all the fun out of it.

This book has an interesting, capitivating writing style, but the restrained way she talks about such incredible abuse also very well done. It would have been so easy to be really emotional about her childhood, but she presents it without much commentary, which helps the reader make her own conclusions.