No one here gets out alive...

I borrowed this book from a co-worker the other day. It's a Jim Morrison biography. Don't get me wrong...I like The Doors but after reading most of this I have a lower opinion of Jim.

Has anyone else read this book? If so what are you opinions on it.

 

i haven't read that one but i read 'Riders on the storm' by john densmore (drummer of the doors), i thought that book was interesting and its seems to be a very accurate account of what happened in the band. but i might give that one a read.

 

i am reading it right now. I'm not far enough along to tell you how i feel about it for sure, but so far i think it is interesting. I think the book and story themselves are interesting, but i can see where you would think less of jim morrison.

 

ive read it....... i didnt really affect my opinion of morrison.... i still highly respect him adn his work

 

Im currently reading a book about jim morrison called "Jim Morrison Life Death Legend".Im planning on getting some of jims poetry. My opinion of him has increased. Maybe its the book youre reading that makes you feel that way. I would read a few different biographies, and compare.

 

read it many times many years ago.....

what it does is shatter some of the "rock myth / legend" status of Morrison by portraying him as a human being dodging responsibility and being a brat! Good thing I never believed all the hype, I was well aware that this was the true Morrison and love it. Its like the hippies of the 60's, strip down the free love, clothes, and glorified use of drugs and you'll find a bunch of dirty smelly "followers" who tuned out because most of there friends were doing it! Then in a few years these people would move on to become "yuppies" showing how they were merely part of the herd to begin with! Beneath the ideals you'll find truth!

 

I read the book about a year ago, it didn't portray Morrison as being a great person but I think it portrayed the real him, I liked the book. I also read some of his poetry, The American Night part 1 and 2, you should look into those, they're good.

 

I've read just right now. Especially I was impressed with his youth, his behaviour... & I like it !

 

ugh...i have hard enough time getting through a biography in the first place, much less several biogaphies about the same person.

 

Thats the god dam awfull truth no matter how well you play the cards.

 

Christ, how many books are written about this guy?

 

freaky, i just bought it and i think its wow yeah cool!, shows that he was/'is' somewhere else, and thats not a bad thing

 

I read it last year. I didn't know much about him before I read it, except I liked his music, knew he was a poet, and that he was very drunk most of the time before he died...
I ended up having a much higher opinion of him as an artist after reading this book. It's a great biography...

 

The same thing happened to me after reading a Pink Floyd biography or three- my opinion of Roger Waters went down a lot, he was an outright asshole.

 

if you got into that book not already thinking jim morrison was an asshole, then that was probably your first problem. Jim morrison WAS an asshole, that's common knowledge. Locking your girlfriend in a closet and setting it on fire isn't exactly an admirable romantic's character.


I thought the book was funny in the begining, i never finished it though...i never finish books.

 

Well he was an asshole, but I guess I got the tortured artist expressing his anger through behaviour out of that instead of just simply "asshole"...

 

BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ! Its not flowery at all... its straight forward and real... not many biographies are like that

 

I think that was Oliver Stone being Oliver Stone, it never really happened.

That book is very well written and informative, but it only shows the rock star Jim and a bit of the poet. In other books it quotes Jim saying that he wears a mask on stage. He plays the role of a monster/asshole by testing boundries and seeing how people will react to things he does. I think he is misunderstood by a lot of people. i dont know i probably not making much sense or a point i just dont think he was an asshole or a brat. Towards the end of his life when he moved to Paris he started taking more responsibility for himself, slowing down his drinking, and started to be a serious poet. it was very unfortunate that his life was cut short by someone who was supposed to love him.

 

I personally don't think of him less after reading the book, but i think that is due to the fact that i already knew alot about Jim Morrison before hand and alot of the stuff I read i already knew it was just written in a different text.

 

Thank you, Oliver Stone, for turning one of the heros of yesterday's generation, a legend and a brilliant lyricist and poet and a true free spirit, into just another asshole to today's generation's. Morrison was an indigo, here to help instill and foster change into a stagnant society. He promoted freedom of expression in his art.

In Miami, it wasn't that he needed to expose himself, it was that the authorities told him not to beforehand. Kinda like when Janis said 'fuck you' out over her entire audience at one show in SoCal because she was told by local authorities she would go to jail if she used profanity in her show. These are acts of artistic expression solely for the art.

Substance abuse onstage, he tried to provide a keyhole for his entire audience to open the doors of perception of which Huxley wrote and allow personal transcension for any who wished to experience it thru him.

It is good to see that some still get their opinion of another thru various sources such as this great book by a personal associate of Mr Morrison's, not just another hyped up bundle of Hollywood lies. Oliver Stone is a liar and that movie sickened Ray Manzarek and me. Don't believe any of it.

If you really want to understand one of the great minds of the last century read No One Here Gets Out Alive, Lords & New Creatures. These books are good stuff that can really get you thinking along new lines.