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Books : Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a GenerationIn association with Amazon.comby: Sheila Weller  List Price: $27.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.45 You Save: $9.50 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 782.421640922 EAN: 9780743491471 ISBN: 0743491475 Label: Atria Manufacturer: Atria Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 592 Publication Date: April 08, 2008 Publisher: Atria Studio: Atria Sales Rank: 358 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation -- female version -- but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation has never been written -- until now, through their resonant lives and emblematic songs. Filled with the voices of many dozens of these women's intimates, who are speaking in these pages for the first time, this alternating biography reads like a novel -- except it's all true, and the heroines are famous and beloved. Sheila Weller captures the character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new information. Girls Like Us is an epic treatment of midcentury women who dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them -- confessors in song, rock superstars, and adventurers of heart and soul. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - They changed women's livesI must admit, when I started this book I was reading it because I loved the music and I remember many of these songs from my mom singing them, and from listening to them on the oldies and classic rock stations. I also admired the ladies, this is true. But once I got into it, I didn't realize it would be this way, but it was like a documentary on feminism, a most enjoyable one. The way the author linked the little (and big) things that happened in the songwriter's lives with what was happening in ... Read More Rating:  - Repetitive, Repetitive, Repetitive...I was so looking forward to this book because I am a huge fan of all three women and the author. Unfortunately, much of it is recycled stories that have been in the many other books and articles written about this time period. There is also constant repetition among the chapters. Unlike other reviewers, I admit I was looking for something a little gossipy and light but instead, it appears Weller is trying to create some type of faux-feminist piece by constantly bringing up the plight of women during ... Read More Rating: - Worth it for the footnotes aloneAs a gossip-fest, good time this book would rate 7 stars for the footnotes alone. Three singer-songwriter coming of age in the 60s and 70s, each trying to figure out what it means to be an independent female artist in a world where all the old rules are gone; this material is gold. Their career struggles, love lives, success and failures are all detailed here. And what details! See nearly every significant male musician of the early 70s fall at Joni Mitchell's feet. Watch Carole King go ... Read More Rating: - Carole, Joni, and Carly--All In One BookThis was an interesting way to write a book. The author finds a way to connect the lives and music of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon with 20-30 page chronological chapters about each artist. I found the format to be a bit confusing at first, and was tempted to read all the "Carole" chapters, then the "Joni" and "Carly" chapters, however, by breaking them up I found that my interest grew. While I would have preferred to read separate biographies on each, I have ... Read More Rating: - Not As AdvertisedSlogged through this "epic". I wanted, truly wanted, to enjoy this book and I didn't. I respect and enjoy the music of all three of these women but this book confirms what I have thought about learning anything about entertainers (be they film stars, musicians, etc.); just enjoy their work and let it go. I learned that these women really slept around (and you can only use the excuse of "it was the times" so long). Not very appealing. (You would have thought Carly Simon might learn after ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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