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 enlarge | Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 1473
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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Writing sometimes tedious...but a wealth of information November 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3DMO6U4U0JN22 My name is Jeremy Gloff. I have reviewed over 250 retro albums on Amazon. I wanted to take a moment to talk about my experience with "Girls Like Us".
 A Trip Well Worth Taking October 19, 2008
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Many years ago, in one of his rare lucid moments, the great Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones warned "trust the art, not the artist." In the vast majority of cases, Richards' warning has proved to be devastatingly accurate. Music lovers, hearing something resonant and personal in a song, long to get nearer to the source. In most cases they would have been better off keeping their distance. Closer looks at where art comes from often leads to keeping company with drunks, junkies,thugs, psychotics, and borderline morons. That was the first reason to avoid this book. The second reason was the title. Any book called "Girls Like Us" screams chick lit. Thank goodness for Amazon and mail order books. I am sure I could never have sacrificed the manhood points required to actually walk up to the counter of a bookstore and buy it openly. That said, I am very glad I did.
Girls Like us is neither the endless fawning fan letter, or man bashing screed. It is a serious piece of scholarship, and I cannot recommend it enough. It is every bit as researched and precise as any major David Halberstam work, recreating time, place, and mores in a way that transports you back. I cannot remember being so deeply absorbed like this by a book, in a very long time, and I was saddened to reach the end.
An era's feminine soundtrack October 18, 2008
A wordy Who's Who of the '60 onwards popular music industry. Sheila Weller weaves the lives & times of these groundbreaking divas' together: how & where they started, who they loved, how they crossed paths & where they are today. I enjoyed learning about their early years. A memorable read about the feminine soundtrack to the Baby Boomers' coming of age even if Judy Collins gets short shrift. Including a CD of their mega hits would have been groovy!
A Big, Dishy Read October 16, 2008
Once you get through the barely coherent introduction, you'll find a nice long read that covers not only the lives of the three women in question but a generous slice of the world they lived in, the things and people they shared, and the music industry in general. The interviewing and reporting are impressive here; it seems the author spoke to everyone who touched the lives of King, Mitchell and Simon, and even apparently nabbed interviews with a few just before they died. The result is an embarrassment of riches that bogs down only here and there in minutia, and perhaps inevitably trails off inconclusively at the end. Along the way, the sidedishing on James Taylor, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Warren Beatty, Graham Nash, and many others, is irresistible.
Best Music Book of the Decade October 6, 2008
What a fantastic book! And talk about a trip down memory lane. These are the women that I came of age with and I was so glad that I was able to re-live those times again because of Sheila's book.
Thanks so much for allowing me to return to my youth and experience its joys through your words and their music - I hope Carole, Carly & Joni realize what a wonderful gift they brought to us.
Wonderful....now, go buy their music....
Cheers
DAN
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