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Original Title:	Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
ISBN:	0743491475 (ISBN13: 9780743491471)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	plus those whose lives intertwined with theirs (James Taylor, David Crosby, Odetta, Graham Nash, etc. plus others not in the music field--Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation Hardcover | Pages: 584 pages

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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 cliche. 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 mid-century 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.

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Title	:	Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
Author	:	Sheila Weller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 584 pages
Published	:	April 8th 2008 by Atria Books (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Biography. Womens. History. Biography Memoir. Feminism

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3.5 stars. Really enjoyed reading this book, though I felt it could have used some editing. The author did exhaustive research and gives an in-depth portrayal of the lives and fortunes of these three women, relating their histories to the zeitgeist of the 60's and 70's. I was inspired to go back and listen to more music by these three singers, none of whom I know very well.- I learned to appreciate Carole King as an incredible songwriter. I had no idea she (together with her then-husband) was

The book is uneven but I found worth listening all the way through. Clearly all three women lived through essential years of Rock n Roll which is often thought of a more masculine art. Carole King is the oldest and began earlier in the late 50s. As a young woman, she married Gerry Goffin whom she wrote hit songs with. She would be married four times and have four children. Carole King made Tapestry in 1971, one of the best selling albums of all time. Joni Mitchell had a baby she put up for

Whelp . . . whew this book is long. But how could it not be? It's subject is two of the greatest American songwriters, ever -- Carole King and Joni Mitchell -- as well as Carly Simon, the three of whom were at the center of the singer-songwriter experience of the late 1960s/mid-1970s. The book is packed with stories and facts and is well written. There's a lot of great stuff in the footnotes: For instance, who would have known that Carly Simon asked everyone in her band to spank her before an

Girls Like Us parallels the lives and careers of three iconic women composer/performers: Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, while documenting the history of an era and a generation. The common threads among the three (James Taylor pops up in all three stories) were what I found most fascinating. The book is long and the writing is poor, with long, run-on sentences, including one that goes on for half a page. The author never mastered the use of footnotes, preferring to sprinkle the text

I am of two minds about this. Part of me liked it. It is chock full of interesting, "you-are-there" inside stories and history of the music business, from the early 60s to the 90s. BUT--- and this is a major complaint-- the writing drove me up the wall! How can an editor let slide horrendous paragraphs, full of sentence fragments in parentheses, and footnotes going off on a tangent, and multiple subjects in a paragraph or even the same sentence, and run-on, convoluted sentences??? Where did this

What fun! If you came of age in the 70's this is a book that you will want to read. It belongs in a text set with BOOM! by Tom Brokaw. The songs of King, Mitchell, and Simon were the soundtrack of my youth. Weller presented these biographies in the context of world events. So in addition to learning that Carole King wrote UP ON THE ROOF and THE LOCOMOTION (Did you know that??), I also learned that the first birth control pill was never actually tested on human females and had serious side

This book is so painful to read that I can't stand it. But I can never give up on a book after I have read more than 50 pages. The writing is dreadful. The '70s feminism is so tiresome. I bought it because I am interested in the music business of the '60s and 70s, but boy does this stink. Even if you are interested in Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King, the bad writing will drive you to your knees. And the book is huge, 592 pages. Stay away from this book. Save your money.