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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon - And the Journey of a Generation |  | Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 65954
Media: Paperback
Pages: 592
ISBN: 0091899257
EAN: 9780091899257
ASIN: 0091899257
Publication Date: July 2, 2009
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| Customer Reviews:
 I loved this book! May 2, 2008
Elizabeth Fiman
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a woman of the 60's and it all rang true. I think we all wanted to be these three women when we were younger, and the stories behind the music, plus the real-life tales of each woman's challanges to free herself from stiffling conventions kept me reading it straight through. The evocation of each woman's personality and her particular challenges was keen - I felt I knew them by the time the book was finished (and could so relate to so much of what they went through). You also got a chance to revisit the times ....How I had forgotten so many details: What we wore, what concerned us, how small a space a young woman had to move around in, how much she had to do on her own. These women's music expressed the exhilleration and the pain of charting a new course, and by the end of the book I wanted to hug them (and listen to their magnificent albums all over -- and over -- again)
How to survive the Business - 101 for Women March 26, 2009
Ms. Felicia Davis-burden (Staines, UK)
This wonderful book gives us the fascinating and often sad braided biographies of three remarkable artists. Carly, Joni and Carole: Contemporaries and creative 'Sisters'.
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br /The Music Business and all its obstacles are thrown into sharp relief. The chapter on Carly Simon's first months in the studio in the mid-sixties makes disturbing reading. The sexual bylaws Carly would often use to her advantage, she learnt through jarring humiliation. She conquered all this and more, all the while journalising her experiences in her song-writing.
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br /Carole King rivalled Joni Mitchell in her tangled personal life. She showed her naturally compassionate nature - and considerable balls, I think - in accepting her husband Gerry Goffin's adultery and child with another woman into her life, while bringing up their two children and working full-time as a songwriter and musician in New York's legendary Brill Building. Carole would go on to enrapture her fellow singer/songwriters as a resident of Laurel Canyon, California. Her album 'Tapestry' is still a high-watermark of her profession, and still a wonderful album the listener can return to; like the embrace of an old and trusted friend.
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br /As for troubled, feisty, self-absorbed, passionate, ambitious and always confrontational Joni...
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br /Read all about it. Sheila Weller's book is an absorbing, beautifully detailed history of three women, a tumultuous personal history and a powerfully evocation of a heady era. I cannot recommend it enough!
A powerful and moving rendering of a hugely important moment in the history of feminism May 15, 2008
Anne Elliot (London)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Having been a young woman in the '70s and a child in the '60's this graphic account of the developments in the '60's filled in the gaps for me. The three singer/songwriters are described with warmth, generosity and a clarity that captured my imagination and sent me back to their music, I closed the book with a huge respect for their ground breaking work, something I'd previously taken for granted. I think that Sheila Weller has done a brilliant job processing the information she had and analysing it in terms of the period. The only weakness is in some of the writing which descends into the style of a rather unskilled rock journalist. However, this is not always the case and at many points the writing is clear and unpretentious. This book is worth reading for anyone interested in why we, as women, are where we are today and have the freedoms we do.
 Girls Like Us April 30, 2008
B. Biggin (Sheffield, England)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Save your money for the CDs. That is my advise. This author is so busy putting comments in brackets and hyphens that the story is very hard to follow. There are copious amounts of names that seem unimportant here and detract from the tale. I will listen to the music instead. A big disappointment to this 'child of the sixties'.
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