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| Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  118 reviews
Sales Rank: 2401
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:
 Needs a good edit! June 29, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If ever a book needed a good edit; this is it. The book reads like a history of the music business as well as a history of the times, but the way the author structures it, she makes it extremely difficult to keep track of all the players in the lives of the three main protagonists.
Honestly, I wanted to enjoy this book and I did find many of the anecdotes interesting, but I couldn't possibly recommend this to anyone because I know it ends up reading more like an assignment. What a disappointment!
 Awesome worth the long read. June 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book worth the long read. These women are great, mysterious, and foundation makers. Would recommend it to all women.
Didn't live up to the hype June 25, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book was entertaining and interesting, but only if you are hard-core fans of the three women it is about. The jacket proclaims it is also the "Journey of a Generation"...not really. It reads like a glorifed People article.
It should be telling that not one of the women the book was written about gave an interview to the author. Also like others have commented, there are parts where important things are mentioned and then never touched on again, and the reverse, some fact is casually mentioned as if an entire previous chapter had been written about it leaving you wondering, "Did I miss something?"
Fascinating Story June 25, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Like a flashback to the '60s and '70s - Weller weaves social history and commentary in with the backgrounds, trials, tribulations, and triumphs that shaped these trailblazing women and the impact they had on our lives and the music world. It is so interesting to learn of the inter-relationships between these women and so many other musicians, songwriters, producers and others. It's a great read and I can hardly put it down. Although I'm only halfway through, I know it will be the type of book that I'll be sorry when it ends.
Disappointing bigtime ... from the author of Stem Cell Symphony and others June 24, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had such high hopes for this book, after the glowing pre-release reviews. I'm only at page 150 but may put it down. Here are my beefs so far:
1. Accuracy. Teachers in NY do not get teaching credentials. That is a Californiaism. Sheepshead Bay is nowhere near Red Hook. And 1 in 8 women do NOT get breast cancer! What a fundamental error. It is a 1 in 8 lifetime risk, not the same thing. If Weller makes errors in the factoids I know, where else has she gone wrong?
2. Do not write "Joni Mitchell has said" and then quote another writer's work. That is plagiarism. Do your own interviews or you do not have a book.
3. The writing is jumbled, an attempt to get in as many names as possible. Too many clauses. Hard to read. The use of "would" and then conjecturing about what someone thought is not necessarily accurate. I hate the passages describing someone, such as Neil Young, and then stating "His name was Neil Young" as if the reader couldn't figure that out. This approach is overly dramatic and annoying.
4. The connections among the women, as others have noted, are forced.
I so looked forward to reading this book. I will move on. Ricki Lewis
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