This book is over 500 pages long and I only have had two weeks to read it (with no renewals). It’s really three biographies and although there are some overlaps among these three people, it would have been better to choose one person and focus on her. I don’t find this book very well written and it definitely is not a page turner. It seems to be filled with meaningless details and often gets derailed talking about people who have only marginal connections to these three women. I really like Carole King (actually she is one of my all-time favorite artists), Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. However, the book is mostly a snooze-fest.

posted Aug 25, 2008 at 10:57AM

Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon. 500 pages to sink into and learn more about the real lives of my favorite music ladies of the 70s! It was a real page turner, alright: I had to keep turning pages back and forth to find any chronology to their lives only to get bogged down with details from people on the fringes that further confused the

posted Feb 15, 2011 at 7:38PM

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