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  <title><![CDATA[I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone]]></title>
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  <default-description>&quot;Ms. Simone's vocal and piano style make her a culture unto herself.&quot; --&lt;I&gt;New York Times&lt;/I&gt;&lt;P&gt; A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like &quot;Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl&quot; and powerful protest songs such as &quot;Mississippi Goddam&quot; and &quot;To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,&quot; the anthem of the American Civil Rights movement. Coinciding with the re-release of her famous Philips Recordings, here are the reflections of the &quot;High Priestess of Soul&quot; on her own life.&lt;P&gt; The mesmerizing autobiography of one of the most revered soul, jazz, and blues divas of our time-the late Nina Simone.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1992</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a disappointment! I am grateful for learning about Nina Simone's childhood in North Carolina, her classical piano training, her desire to become a concert pianist, and the development of her political consciousness. However throughout most of the book, she describes her depression, failed marri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68935499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[an absolutely necessary read for any nina simone fan.  her music is amplified after you read her own very particular reasons for the music.  Also, one of those very rare musician reads where your not bored with unneccessary details.  she was such a forceful personality, and it all comes out here - a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38788746">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 19 22:51:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very insightful look at the protest jazz singer.  I knew that she had had a tough life, she is often compared to Lady. However, most of her troubles were IRS related as well as the Race Movement in America of the 60's.  I really didn't realize that most of her recording took place over ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49842420">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Nina Simone!  She is my favorite artist, yet as an autobiography &quot;I Put a Spell on You&quot; was OK.  If you want a detailed account of her life and insight as to how she saw and related to the world, go for it.  Don't expect a great read...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating autobiography of Nina Simone's life. Her story begins so differently than where she ends up, and she unapologetically lays it all out before us. I am amazed and awed in her honesty and true insight into her own life. She writes as if also interpreting it together with the reade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35011103">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite possibly the most passionate autobiography I have read. Even more amazing is all that occurs in less than 200 pages. A very dense read, for it's intensity. I'm no reading slouch, but this book took me weeks to finish. I wanted to absorb it all, and I also didn't want it to end. Nina's writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25528631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10115049">
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew Nina Simone led such a crazy life?!  The best anecdote in this book is this time that Nina invited Louis Farrakhan over to talk politics, but the more gin she drank, the more she got distracted by his apparently tiny feet.  &quot;Minister Farrakhan talked on into the small hours and I sat s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10115049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love Nina Simone. And this made me love her even more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doesn't her soulful Spirit just linger....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love this woman, i loved this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow crazy life!  this was a fun book to read.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the finest female vocalist &amp; pianist ever.  her story, while not terribly well-written, is a remarkable one, and obviously a must-read for any fan.  from north carolina to the city of brothery love to her final years in europe, nina's trials and tribulations (as if you couldn't already tell it from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9641511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the beginning of this book very moving, and Nina's early life very interesting. I started to mistrust her narration of her own life toward the end, as she gets richer and crazier. <br/><br/>Her prose starts to feel flat after a while, unfortunately, and she becomes a bit repetitive as she ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8782299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book as a gift when it first came out bc I love love love Nina Simone.  This book is in her own words and its all over the place - a whirlwind - like her life.  Her story is just awesome and so is her music.  Even if you don't particularly like Nina's music, this is a powerful book about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18349110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You ever read something, and the author is telling you these stories that make you wonder just what the hell the other people were thinking? We're all bit players in others' lives and stars in our own; it just seems that some people prefer to be stars in others' productions, also.<br/><br/>Well-wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7081500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a pity that one of the great singers of all time comes across as a small hearted and bitter person.  She could play piano, and sing all shades of a storm.  But if this is what her life was like, we needn't envy her anything else.  I suspect that if someone else had written her biography they wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10659170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Living is a gift, but can feel unbearable, loving is inevitable pain, and surviving to tell your story is a blessing.  The right book at the right time, my dad snuck it into my suitcase when I left to go back to DC.  How did he know that I needed that book in my life?  Read it in one sitting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm giving up on this. I got about half way through, and while Ms. Simone may have been a very interesting woman, I almost never like books like this. I'm not at all sure why I thought I wanted to read it in the first place.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Livre très intéressant. Quelle vie que celle de cette grande artiste. Enfance, mouvement des droits civils, exil volontaire des États-Unis, vie au Libéria puis en Europe.]]></body>
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