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    <body><![CDATA[The book is well written and, judging from the end notes, well researched and includes an enormous number of short quotations but, having read Christie's autobiography and two earlier biographical works, I don't really feel that I've learned anything new about Agatha Christie. This book did say a li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62662743">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I didn't like this book.  There were actually too many details/personal thoughts that the author could not have known.  If those little things are not true, how do I trust the rest of the book?  <br/><br/>As I got into the book however I enjoyed it more.  The book is well annotated and so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72708378">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Agatha Christie was an interesting and accomplished person, However the detail in this books is a bit annoying.  I really do not care what she did not have for breakfast on December 3, 1926.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first look at Agatha Christie.  An interesting commentary on the times and the resourcefulness of women of independent mind. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like biographies and this is a good one.  I read it straight through yesterday (not much else I can do).]]></body>
    
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