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A review by mattrabpc
No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman
3.0
I love The Doors and I found this was a good journey through the career of The Doors and Jim Morrison's life. I knew some of the stories but getting the context of it all and seeing the big picture around the events in Jim's life was interesting.
I thought the authors didn't catch the most accurate picture of Morrison. While it did point out the times he was cruel and unreasonable and showed how later he wanted out of the rockstar image I feel like it went a bit too far excusing his actions. He was in a lot of pain and didn't get the time to make things right, but there was still a lot to reckon with. It also made all of Morrison's partners out to be really cruel and bitchy and they might have been but it doesn't seem right that they would all act like that.
Overall its a pretty decent read for myth making but I think I'd read Ray Manzerek or John Denismore's books to get a clearer picture of what happened.
I thought the authors didn't catch the most accurate picture of Morrison. While it did point out the times he was cruel and unreasonable and showed how later he wanted out of the rockstar image I feel like it went a bit too far excusing his actions. He was in a lot of pain and didn't get the time to make things right, but there was still a lot to reckon with. It also made all of Morrison's partners out to be really cruel and bitchy and they might have been but it doesn't seem right that they would all act like that.
Overall its a pretty decent read for myth making but I think I'd read Ray Manzerek or John Denismore's books to get a clearer picture of what happened.