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  <title><![CDATA[Mommie Dearest]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1978</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christina Crawford]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Hester]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 28 05:39:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joan Crawford like many stars of her day had a carefully crafted image. I don't doubt much of this book, especially while reading &quot;Not The Girl Nextdoor&quot;. What amazed me the most about this book was that Christina still came across as loving her mother very much even after enduring horrifi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50345415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11701840">
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    <name><![CDATA[Koeeoaddi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 05 08:04:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 05 08:12:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe this should really get 5 stars. No other books I can think of, except maybe <em>The Way I See It</em>, by Patti Davis, elicited such perfectly realized voyeuristic distaste.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11701840]]></url>
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    <review id="59085921">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nicole]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Appleton, WI]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 09 19:31:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 13 12:00:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good movie, not so good book.<br/><br/>I don't doubt that even some of the more severe abuse took place, but that really isn't the issue.  The real abuse is buried under chapters and chapters of boring whining.  It's harder to take the real abuse seriously when the author is complaining about ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59085921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60909593">
    <user id="2453543">
    <name><![CDATA[Ronda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kingston, OK]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 24 07:21:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 07:24:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I grew up watching the Joan Crawford movies, my parents were fans. When I saw this book out, I had to snap it up and read it.<br/><br/>It was a very good book even if the content was not only surprising but upsetting.<br/><br/>To know a child has been abused and not much was done to help her is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60909593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57366551">
    <user id="1347087">
    <name><![CDATA[Jeannie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Dahinda, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 26 08:50:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 26 08:56:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book a long long long time ago. before I saw the movie in fact. This was the very first book I had read in this genre and it hooked me. I remember being shocked that someone so famous and in the public eye could treat her children in this manner and no one know or speak out for them. the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57366551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37012650">
    <user id="1687248">
    <name><![CDATA[Colleen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Wahiawa, HI]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who love crybaby stories]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 05 22:25:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 06 09:12:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>Once</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Written by a grown woman, the first of Joan Crawford's adopted children, the book reads like one big whine-a** 13yr old journal entry. Christina Crawford complains about how her mean mommie had loads of cash and didn't spoil her and her equally bratty brother, Chistopher, even more rotten than they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37012650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21303604">
    <user id="1128602">
    <name><![CDATA[Child_Of]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pikeville, KY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Apr 29 23:30:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joan Crawford, star of the silver screen, Exposed!<br/><br/>What did I learn reading the story of a survivor of Child Abuse, Christina?<br/><br/>Well, I feel that that while the film made from the book in 1981 became a GLBT cult classic, sometimes I wonder if my fellow GLBT friends in the various GL...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21303604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65879937">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 02 11:16:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 02 11:19:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had actually forgotten I read this book.  I don't read my autobiographies, I tend to find them poorly written and badly edited.  This was no different.  I find the same problems with all autobiographies - timelines are poorly defined, some moments are written with perfect clarity while others are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65879937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74608277">
    <user id="2826980">
    <name><![CDATA[Theresa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Someone interested in famous lives]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 15 07:08:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 05:21:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I read this book years ago (when I was a teen), and some of the things Joan Crawford did to her adopted child still stick with me. I'm not sure if it's all believable, or if it was a publicity stunt, but it did leave an impression, none the less. My mother gave me this book with the comment, &quot;a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74608277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48498011">
    <user id="654161">
    <name><![CDATA[Micheal]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 07 07:11:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 07 07:12:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book lacks a lot of the campy elements that make the movie such a &quot;so bad it's good&quot; classic- and has everyting whittled down to the more horrific abuse elements.  Hard to read at times and really hard to read without picturing Faye Dunaway gobbling up all of the scenery around her. ]]></body>
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    <review id="19409170">
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    <name><![CDATA[Joyce]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 03 18:06:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 03 18:06:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was captivated by Joan Crawford's wacky behavior (for more reasons than I can list here!)...and by Christina's view of her life with her mother.  The daughter and mother dynamic was so damaged, so intense, so fraught with pitfalls... there was no way for it to ever be healthy, no matter how many h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19409170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51492279">
    <user id="2141676">
    <name><![CDATA[Cindie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Indianapolis, IN]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 12:11:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 12:14:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite her step-siblings denouncing her, I believe this account of Christina Crawford's early life. Interesting to wonder what psychological diagnosis Joan Crawford would receive today in modern parlance:  Borderline personality?  Psychosis?  Manic Depression?]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51492279]]></url>
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    <review id="57578715">
    <user id="780336">
    <name><![CDATA[Beth]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 02 09:24:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a hard time picking a star rating because I couldn't put this book down, and I think you should read it, but at the same time it's really just a two-dimensional, disjointed laundry list of horrifying events. It's like reading the tabloids.]]></body>
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    <review id="42417083">
    <user id="1006293">
    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say? I just had to read this. Do I believe it? Um, dunno! Well, not really. Well, some. Wellllllll, I'll say I'm 50/50 confused. And that's okay by me!<br/><br/>Read it if you dare. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="19135730">
    <user id="569516">
    <name><![CDATA[Angie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Imperial, MO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow- I saw the movie first and just had to read the book.  If what all that Christina Crawford says is true, than Joan Crawford was truly an awful and cruel parent who should never have adopted any children.  I felt so bad for Christina.  What type of parent makes their child give away all but one o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19135730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60408039">
    <user id="2352255">
    <name><![CDATA[Cheryl]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sonoita, AZ]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 08:40:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 20 08:43:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joan Crawford is portrayed as a clean-freak obsessed with control - it's a good read.  It also talks about Hollywood life in the 40's thru 60's which is very interesting.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60408039]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="57076992">
    <user id="2088065">
    <name><![CDATA[Marcy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat May 23 12:54:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had seen the movie first and then my neighbor had the book. She let me keep it and I think the book is way more detail so it gives you more chills. well for me it did. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed this book, too.  I just can't believe she really forgave her mother.  I think she just added that at the end so people would think she took the higher ground.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[um, so apparently that whole &quot;No More Wire Hangers!&quot; incident never really happened, *but* there was a whole lot of other terrible and salacious stuff that did. joan crawford was one crazy bitch. The &quot;whole lot of other stuff&quot; in the book makes this a worthy read, especially if y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9087816">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 18:50:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 19:08:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this book, however I do have to wonder how much of what Joan Crawford's daughter is saying is accurate.]]></body>
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