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| Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation | 
 enlarge | Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 1618
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.2 x 2
ISBN: 0743491475
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421640922
EAN: 9780743491471
ASIN: 0743491475
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Brilliant, Mesmerizing Summer Must-Read! May 20, 2008
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I would like to thank the amazing author of this brilliant, fun and informative novel for giving us a much needed contribution to the social history of the sixties, and beyond! The well-researched and thoroughly enjoyable read made my day (for the past number of weeks! ) and I can only look forward, with rapt anticipation, to the many future contributions she will no doubt be authoring in the years to come. I heartily reccomend this book as the ultimate summertime (or anytime..) read! :)_go, Girls Like Us!
SO MUCH FUN May 26, 2008
I got this book because I'm a fan of some of these women and I wanted to know why the '60s was such a big deal (I'm younger). Almost from the first page, I fell down a rabbit home into an absorbing story that felt like a movie and brought the whole era alive. Finally I know what people are talking about when they talk about those times. Also you feel the women's lives up close, their challenges and how particular they are. Carole and Carly and Joni came alive to me, as if I knew them. I do have a small quibble and that is that toward the end the author put in a lot of albums and songs that were not as important as the earlier ones, so I wanted to skim past them. All in all though, I didn't want this book to end.
girls like me May 29, 2008
Very interesting read with full sites and attributions. Kind of confusing that she went back and forth between the girls all the time. Lots of background on all three that was not common knowledge.
Girls like us May 30, 2008
This was purchased for my wife's bookclub reading of the month. She found it to be a fascinating read about three women who's work in music literally changed the face of music in the US during the 60's and 70's. It will bring back many memories for anyone over the age of 45 and will impress and surprise those younger about how much influence these women had on our society.
A great read and, especially for those born in the mid to late 1950's, a walk down memory lane as well as a reminder of how we came to be who we are.
A must for fans of these women and their music June 1, 2008
Fascinating, exhaustively researched bio of all three famous singer-songwriter women. The chapters alternate between the three, showcasing their lives and the times they lived in and, at least musically, helped to shape. I devoured the Joni chapters, having always been a big fan, but found out many new things about her and loved the mostly altogether new info on King and Simon. This is an important book about the voices of women in a male dominated field, about artistic and personal choices, about the changing landscape of American music in the 50s, 60s, and 70s - and beyond. Weller traces the influence of the singers' lives as they emerged in their songs, and interviews some of the people closest to all three women, not an easy feat, and not one, I think, that's been accomplished before. Carly Simon is most available to Weller, and Joni, of course, the least, although Carole's reticence is also notable. It's not ultimately a happy book, since for all three, bad relationships and decisions color their lives and music: Joni's abandonment of her baby to an adoption home and her ceaseless quest to find the right man, Carole's early success giving way to a history of marrying men who seemed to stunt her abilities, and Carly's eleven year commitment to James Taylor, throughout which he remained a drug addict. There is much comfort to the music lover though, because all three women produced a soundtrack to the baby boomers' era and remain creative today - they are, battle-scarred and aging, still standing.
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