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| Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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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:
 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 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is written in a fragmented manner that I found difficult to follow and consequently less interesting. I may shelve it for now and pick it up again later.
Not what I wanted May 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Finally a book about some of the ladies of soft rock. The writer has lots of interviews and has put the timeline together. You will get the who, what, where, when, you just never get much of the why or the so what? Lots of gossip, little understanding.
Did the 60's/70's lifestyle help these women or ultimately hurt them? Was the only path to be a writer? Looking back, what do they regret, other than the obvious problem of Joni Mitchell with her daughter. How has time healed?
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.
All in Vain May 23, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Author sure did her homework--but when it came time to sit down at the keyboard, she apparently couldn't figure out exactly what to do with her hundreds (or is it thousands?) of hours of interviews.
Result is a badly-structured juggling act in which she valiantly tries to keep stories of all three ladies (each of whom could warrant an individual bio) in the air but frequently drops several of the balls to go off on unimportant tangents. Clumsy run-on sentences and endless footnotes (many of them fascinating factoids in and of themselves--but distracting nonetheless) make this a tough read for any but the most ardent fans of the title trio.
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