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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen…
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter (Original 2010; 2010. Auflage)

von Randy L. Schmidt, Dionne Warwick (Vorwort)

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An intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar.
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Titel:Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Autoren:Randy L. Schmidt
Weitere Autoren:Dionne Warwick (Vorwort)
Info:Chicago Review Press (2010), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 368 pages
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Tags:biography, entertainers, Karen Carpenter, anorexia

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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter von Randy L. Schmidt (2010)

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the writing was rather pedestrian, but reading the story was definitely worth the time. ( )
  btbell_lt | Aug 1, 2022 |
biography, Carpenters, anorexia, drummer, Richard Carpenter, Karen Carpenter ( )
  DebraBooks | Jan 24, 2022 |
I've given this 5 stars and I never finished it and I never put it on the Given Up On shelf.

Simply put I found it too upsetting to finish. I knew the ending and I really did not want to see that slow motion car crash unfold.

Karen Carpenter, for anyone too young to know, had one of the most amaing voices to appear in the 20th century. By and large the songs were crap but that voice would just stop you dead and pull feelings out of you that bypassed any conscious process you may have been engaged in at the time. I still cannot hear Rainy Days and Mondays without tearing up.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SPIzKxVL0)

I wasn't interested in all the dates and places, it was the family dynamic I was interested in and it pretty much is all laid out here.

Suffering from an almost (at the time) unknown disease called anorexia nervosa, ignored, belittled and diminished by her mother this biography reads like a catalogue of intentional errors and wilful ignorance as she slowly fades away.

Sad, so sad, poor Karen.


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  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
Back when to Carpenters were big throughtout the 70's, i was in high school and college, and Carpenter music was not cool, it was considered too soft-rock/bubblegum for many people. Nevertheless, their music has held up well over the years. And Karen's voice is simply incredible, one of the most beautiful female voices of all time. This book tells her tragic story. This is the first well done biography written without the Carpenter family having rights to edit/censor the story.

An in depth biography of Karen Carpenter, lots of interviews with close friends. Well done, heartbreaking and insightful. That someone so gifted could have been so emotionally damaged by her family is a true shame. Yes, her mother was a piece of work, but Richard also is responsible for her problems, too. The book is well researched and well written. ( )
  JohnKaess | Jul 23, 2020 |
I don't know the exact reason why, almost 30 years later, Karen Carpenter's death still leaves me sad whenever I hear a song of hers on the radio or my iPod shuffle. From all accounts written about her, from everything friends of hers have said, Karen was a very fun and funny woman...kind, super talented and a genuine person. That's probably a major part of it.

But the way she died and how it eventually came to overshadow (in some ways, at least) her amazing voice and musical legacy...somehow that makes it all the more tragic.

In his heartfelt and touchingly sincere book _Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter_, Randy L. Schmidt gives the lovely singer what very few writers before him have: the ability to be taken seriously, free from any gaudy tabloid fanfare.

Schmidt's deep admiration for her is apparent, but so is his keen knack for attacking the story with a warm yet still objective approach.

Very few biographies have been written about Karen Carpenter, but of the ones that have been this is the one to read, the one that lays the story down without making it sound like a VH1 Behind the Music special.

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