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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Aug 2, 2005 11:14:53 GMT
What is your all time favourite book on Jim and/or The Doors and what are the reasons behind it. Don't just pick a book title ...... give it some thought and try to explain the reasons behind your choice.
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Post by othercircles on Aug 10, 2005 1:55:04 GMT
I pick John Densmores "Riders On The Storm" because its a well written novel about a true story told from a honest point of view. It's written by an author who isn't afraid to point out their own faults.
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Post by ptlwp on Aug 25, 2005 17:39:22 GMT
John Densmore's book had the most soul. I like all of Lisciandro's works, for they are soulful also. I did like "Angel's Dance & Angel's Die" but I read it like a piece of fiction, romantic fiction and thusly, a good read. Of course, Mike Jahn's "Jim Morrison & the Doors is one of my prized possessions....$1.00 back in 1969...times have sure changed.
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Post by spirit on Sept 6, 2005 22:47:16 GMT
I would have to say my fave 'doors book' is Wonderland Avenue. Now i know it isnt technically a doors book but if you think about it, it has its own personal insights into the life led close to Jim Morrison, at least for a short while, and also it has wee tid-bits of life around the Doors as a band. Its straight from the eyes of someone who was in the unique position to be a fly on the wall - and who was also taken under the wing of the Doors to some extent - Unique in my opinion...
But then theres the whole Danny thing, which is also extremely gripping for me.
Ed
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Post by gizmo on Sept 12, 2005 6:38:00 GMT
it's not really a book but i love the illustrated history
a fuckin lot of photo's and newspaper articles-interviews, all in a chronological order
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Mar 11, 2011 16:55:00 GMT
I will refresh this thread and also give my own answer some thought as I never posted on my own question. Surely some of you guys have a view on this as you are Doors fans are you not? Lets hear what you people think and try to get a 21st century overview of The Doors in print.
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Post by casandra on Mar 12, 2011 10:37:20 GMT
My favorite book is the Hervé Muller “Jim Morrison and the Doors” for several reasons. It was the first book I read and I found it very interesting. This book predates the myth created in the late 70's. Being a book written in 1973, it has enough information, it is quite comprehensive. Hervé Muller made a good investigation and the conclusions he reaches are quite good. It is realistic but not scandalous or indulgent. It is a kind of essay, which it gives a brief analysis about the Doors music (the albums and songs), their role in the sixties in America, and Jim Morrison’s works (poetry books, lyrics songs and films, musical and literary influences,...). Hervé Muller gives good reasons and he is right about why a non-English speaking audience could like the Doors music and the fascination that Jim Morrison could bring about in Europe, especially France (few people, not many) in those years when there was not internet, few people had seen them play live in Europe, the images and photographs were rare, it was not easy to get concert recordings and there weren't videos, CD's, DVD's, etc...; when it was very difficult to access to accurate information. Before NOHGOA, American Prayer and Apocalypse Now. There is not a Jim Morrison biography, but the author talks his impressions about Jim Morrison (sober and drunk) and Pamela. He personally met them in Paris. Following his experience of several days with Jim (Muller and his girlfriend had to go out of their flat that they had rented, after the Jim’s scandal that he made because he was drunk when they tried to go up him the stairs to carry their flat), Muller thought that Jim Morrison had remarkable schizophrenic tendencies in that time. When he was sober, he was shy, intelligent and educated and when he was drunk annoying and naughty. And a minute later he cried, saying he needed help and begging they didn’t leave him alone. Muller gives an overview of Jim's life and he talks about the most important episodes in his musical career. For Muller, the crisis between Jim and the other Doors began in recording WFTS, because the three Doors didn't want to include The celebration of the Lizard and because the three Doors were angry about what happened in New Haven. Possibly, so Hervé Muller says, he read the rough draft book by Jerry Hopkins or he read Hopkins research notes before Sugerman and Manzarek would rewrite this book. Muller announced in the preface that his “friend” Hopkins was writing a biography and Muller probably interviewed the tree Doors and other people in 1972-1973, because he traveled to Los Angeles in 1972. The only fault is that the book has a little French “chauvinism” when he is speaking about the sixties in Europe and especially May 68 in France. but this is understandable and this doesn't ruin the book. Hervé Muller says that perhaps Ray Manzarek had a bit jealousy of Jim Morrison.
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Post by darkstar3 on Mar 12, 2011 15:13:30 GMT
My favorite books:
Break On Through, An Hour For Magic, & Feast Of Friends.
I'm a person who admires people for their research and also a book made of interviews from people who were a part of the Doors camp who had a birds eye view of events as they unfolded. This birds eye view doesn't always match the recollections of the surviving band members themselves as their memories have been contradicted many times by those wishing to exploit the Jim Morrison myth.
I don't care for the "girlfriend" type books, although I have read them and many 'stories' told by women who claim to have had a relationship with Jim Morrison I find that each of them saw the Jim Morrison they wanted to see, no more, no less. Many of these women have chosen not to distance themselves from the brief time they knew Jim but instead exploit themselves as well as Jim Morrison himself to garner the attention they feel is due them.
The only book that is an exception to this rule was one written by Judy Huddleston. This is a woman who had an on again off again relationship with Morrison for years and she did not sugar coat her story with is rare in woman who claim to have known Morrison, no matter how briefly.
There are some women who came in contact with Jim that tell their story and move on with their lives. There is certainly a difference in these types of woman and those that continue to use exploitation as a means of getting attention from Doors fans.
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