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elodiepoline404's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Abortion, Body shaming, Blood, and Car accident
irisofthevalley's review against another edition
5.0
Pretty good. But again, what does a biography say about a person? Definitely not much...
izzyashh's review against another edition
4.0
where to begin...
what a beautiful yet tragic life jim lived through. i knew so much about his person and the doors, but after, i feel like i exapanded that knowledge even further.
jim’s years of living is the perfect way, as in the book, to describe a dionysian lifestyle. beautiful yet tragic. concious yet unaware. soft yet harsh. i have no doubt in my mind that jim was too great for this world. he was too...open and too...anarchaist [might i say].
he was too much for humans of the time, then and now, to understand all of his complexities and thoughts. everything from his outside to his deepest core. i honestly don’t think anyone will fully know his complicated and fascinating life.
this book, develops from his childhood to the time where he (mysteriously) passes away. it includes tidbits of his deeper emotions to his most raging emotions, to even his time with the band itself and how they came to be. jerry and danny do a wonderful job of telling his life as it was.
all the good and all the bad.
i personally loved this book and felt so deeply about everything written throughout. if you or someone else loved the doors or just jim morrison, please, give them this to read.
in the end, it gave me a deeper understanding and appreciation of the guys and J. learning how he came to be and his day to day life...my heart grew so big and created a better...fuller, love for this music group. and i have so much more to say about jim but i couldn’t write it all here.
“people are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. people talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. love hurts. feelings are disturbing. people are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. how can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? pain is meant to wake us up. people try to hide their pain. but they’re wrong. pain is something to carry, like a radio. you feel your strength in the experience of pain. it’s all in how you carry it. that’s what matters. pain is a feeling. your feelings are a part of you. your own reality. if you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. you should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
love Isabelle.
p.s. one star off for the ending of the book. i was, personally, a little disappointed by how the writing faltered off at the end but nonetheless, raised some very good questions about jim’s death that i never thought of myself.
what a beautiful yet tragic life jim lived through. i knew so much about his person and the doors, but after, i feel like i exapanded that knowledge even further.
jim’s years of living is the perfect way, as in the book, to describe a dionysian lifestyle. beautiful yet tragic. concious yet unaware. soft yet harsh. i have no doubt in my mind that jim was too great for this world. he was too...open and too...anarchaist [might i say].
he was too much for humans of the time, then and now, to understand all of his complexities and thoughts. everything from his outside to his deepest core. i honestly don’t think anyone will fully know his complicated and fascinating life.
this book, develops from his childhood to the time where he (mysteriously) passes away. it includes tidbits of his deeper emotions to his most raging emotions, to even his time with the band itself and how they came to be. jerry and danny do a wonderful job of telling his life as it was.
all the good and all the bad.
i personally loved this book and felt so deeply about everything written throughout. if you or someone else loved the doors or just jim morrison, please, give them this to read.
in the end, it gave me a deeper understanding and appreciation of the guys and J. learning how he came to be and his day to day life...my heart grew so big and created a better...fuller, love for this music group. and i have so much more to say about jim but i couldn’t write it all here.
“people are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. people talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. love hurts. feelings are disturbing. people are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. how can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? pain is meant to wake us up. people try to hide their pain. but they’re wrong. pain is something to carry, like a radio. you feel your strength in the experience of pain. it’s all in how you carry it. that’s what matters. pain is a feeling. your feelings are a part of you. your own reality. if you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. you should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
love Isabelle.
p.s. one star off for the ending of the book. i was, personally, a little disappointed by how the writing faltered off at the end but nonetheless, raised some very good questions about jim’s death that i never thought of myself.
kerryann's review against another edition
4.0
I can't stand the music of the Doors because of the organs, but I loved this syrupy, worshippy, sticky patchouli biography of the band and particularly beautiful boy Jim Morrison.
Fun. Four stars if you like this sort of thing.
Fun. Four stars if you like this sort of thing.
halestormz_'s review against another edition
“I am not mad.
I am interested in freedom.”
Good Luck,
J. Morrison
Choose not to rate this bc I read It for the joy of learning about Jim and my ‘cosmic mate’ group, not for the quality of writing or story telling.
Nothing but love for Robby, John, Ray, and Pamela.
I hope to meet you someday, Mr. Mojo.
I am interested in freedom.”
Good Luck,
J. Morrison
Choose not to rate this bc I read It for the joy of learning about Jim and my ‘cosmic mate’ group, not for the quality of writing or story telling.
Nothing but love for Robby, John, Ray, and Pamela.
I hope to meet you someday, Mr. Mojo.
miacaven's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.0
This book destroyed my perspective on Jim. It was written very well don’t get me wrong I don’t think it’s a reflection of the writer at all. But I’ve said it before that I cannot read books where the people in it are extremely dislikable… and god was Jim a dick. So unlikable. And he wasn’t surrounded by likeable people either. It was a TOUGH read. Written very well but not enjoyable.
frasersimons's review against another edition
I am going through a box of books from my teenage years. This was a formative book for me; everything that described othering and angst and masculine pain was, though. Probably this was the first biography I’ve ever read. Somewhat funny, now that know just how suspect this narrative is. Which is why I won’t reread it.
I’d rather move to a different book to read about Jim, if at all. Growing older is a process of, hopefully, becoming disenchanted with the tortured artist narrative, toxic masculinity, and assholes, in general.
I’d rather move to a different book to read about Jim, if at all. Growing older is a process of, hopefully, becoming disenchanted with the tortured artist narrative, toxic masculinity, and assholes, in general.
lisadsam's review against another edition
4.0
I owned this book for several years, I reread it in 97 before trading it in....love a good biography and this one was full of lurid detail.
mimima's review against another edition
3.0
A hagiographic tone does not outweigh the very flawed personality of Jim Morrison, and I found that I liked him less after reading this book. However, it was compulsively readable, and I can't get the Doors songs out of my head and will enjoy listening to them.