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Title: An Irregular Girl
Review: Reading this book felt like some sort of punishment I inflicted upon myself. I kept on reading, waiting for it to turn into a real story, worthy of the beautiful but empty prose within. I get the Owens/Jobs connection - I worked for Jobs for some years, I get it. However, it read like knowledge uninformed by insight, compassion, objectivity - only opportunism. And perhaps betrayal - does Simpson feel somehow she was entitled to share his life, his oddities? Clearly she does, or did. I'd say that at least at the time it was written, Simpson had some of her own personal issues to work out about her birth, her relationships, her perceptions of women. How would she feel if someone inflicted such a roman a clef on her?I don't blame Lisa Jobs for being pissed.
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