Love Him Madly Judy Huddleston

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Love Him Madly: An Intimate memoir Of Jim Morrison. Judy Huddleston



Judy Huddleston wrote a book in 1991 to cash in on the film as did several of Morrison's women.
But Judy wrote a follow up in 2013 making her a leader in the book stakes.

Is/are it/they any good. Not a clue as Jim's women bore me so I've never read it.

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This Is the End My Only Friend: Living and Dying With Jim Morrison Judy Huddleston 1991

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I'm not sure whether the more recent book is a follow-up - haven't got it yet, but as I understand it, it's another rehash of her first book, probably filled up with more stories about herself and psychoanalysis babble.

A solid book and tiny details can offer much, for example, here we have Jim in Alta Cienega in Dec 1967 and not in "1968" as some other sources state, and this moment IMO is crucial for understanding how come his drinking accelerated sometime in 1967, so he became highly unreliable during studio sessions in 1968. Judy is the chick in NOHGOA from whom Jim confiscated rings to give them to Pamela. This is the account which ultimately presents him from the side his better-publicized friends don't want to talk about, that of an anal rapist. I'm not sure whether this was the first such one, but there were the "Esquire" story from "Sherry" in 1972, then from Kathy Weldy, probably via Rainer's fanzine or his German book first, and then maybe reproduced elsewhere, and then there was the "Vanity Fair" story from 2006 or so about how he put down cigarettes against the stomach of his 1965 girlfriend. Maybe some other stories I don't remember well, the Kubernik book probably has some. Also in Butler's ADAD from Mirandi Babitz, how he tied Pam up and buggered her.

So this book was always considered by those who pay attention to Jim's dealings with women as an honest account, probably because Judy did not show any pretense. She wasn't "the one and only wife" like PKM, she did not pretend to sleep with him on the day LMF hit #1 like Linda Ashcroft. But it seems JM was out of sync with Judy's artistic endeavours (painting), like, did not think much of them. Because stories are known of him meeting chicks who were deep into poetry, whose letters appealed to him. Surely the reader won't find here a glimpse of a superwoman intellect like in Linda's book, whetever her true story with Jim was which is impossible to know. And PKM had a similar intellect on the IQ value level, only it does not seem she was attuned to him on his poetry, so it looks like they channeled their discussions to something else.