![]() ![]() The city, venue and date seems to be the framework of the book. but there is too much of a recounting of an assistant's diary. ![]() I decided three, because I long expected an intensely personal, soul baring journey. I long debated whether to say three stars or four. The problem is you'd expect an artist of her caliber to go to more authentic, original, and deeper places. It ends on a triumphant note-despite the lost relationships, brief affairs, troubled son who eventually commits suicide, she completes the journey sober, creative, and with a strong and lasting relationship.This gives the book a movie-of-the-week quality-yes, I suffered but I have come through. While she is very up-front about her addiction and its effect on her life, I was left with the feeling that though confessional about her main problems, the real person slipped away and disappeared every time you tried to grasp her. This may be due to the fact that Collins admits she was in an alcoholic haze most of her life ( even though she still managed to knock her career out of the park and somehow seems never to have let her drinking damage her professionalism). ![]() The book is studded with names, but the descriptions of the people involved tend to be of a pleasant and brief nature, mostly about how wonderful they all are it's got the depth of meeting them at a cocktail party. Judy Collins has met everyone who matters, from the '60's and beyond. ![]()
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