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  <read_at>Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very good biography, well-researched and well written, and a &quot;three-fer&quot; to boot.  But I think I may have to stop reading biographies, or at least bios of contemporary artists whose art I admire.  I like Carole King's work, not so much a fan of Carly, but she did do some good pop songs; but I really like Mitchell's music.  And while I still admire her as an artist, as a person, I kind of just want to smack her.  Or tell her to just get over herself!  All three women seem to be congenitally incapable of sustaining any kind of love relationship. Which is fine, if you set out to have an adventurous love life - go for it!  But don't come whining years later about the lack of an ongoing relationship and the personal and social consequences of the life you've chosen to live.  Love is hard, work is hard (even when it is creative work that you love,) life is hard.  For everyone. As a relatively happy little poor girl who knows that relationships take work and care and even then sometimes can't be saved, and who published some of her work but never got to support herself as a writer, I don't have a lot of sympathy for these &quot;poor little rich girls&quot; who went through friends,lovers and husbands like M&amp;Ms and sulked when they went through a period of poor sales and/or reviews.]]></body>
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