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Title: couldn't have picked a better title
Review: Let me say up front that I am not a Joplin fan; I don't like or dislike her. I just don't care. I only picked up this book because I like biographies of creative people, and the price was right (a buck.) But I had to force myself to finish this dull, depressing and dreadful book. Lots of lay psychoanalyzing and a bizarre attempt at a substance abuse lecture combine to make for a laboriously constructed but unsatisfying bio. The author is a trained musician, but you would scarcely know it from this clunky tale. There is little to no examination of the music of Joplin, much less any real interaction with her band. Unless you are a die-hard Joplin fan, save your money and your time.
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