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Summary: Avoid this one, at all costs.
Review: A thoroughly wasted attempt to make immortal and romantic the well-known, wretched excess(es) of two people who were less in love than locked in mortal, co-dependentl psychic combat; a battle that contributed to the untimely and tragic (the only correct parallel to the tale of Juliet and her Romeo) death of both. One is left more irritated and disgusted than enlightened by any efforts to shed new light on the lives of the protaganists. Wasting the dawn, indeed.
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Summary: This is a disappointing book.
Review: This book adds little to our knowledge of either Morrison's or Courson's life. There are some sleek new photos of Pamela's boutique, her and Jim which I had never seen, but otherwise this is a sketchy portrait of both of them. There would be a place for a real Bio of Pamela which helped explain what she and Jim shared, but this book isn't it.
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Summary: Pamela Morriosn: Tragic Juliet?
Review: Having been a Doors fan for many years, I thought I had read every book on the subject of Jim Morrison and The Doors. So, I was pleasantly surprised by Patricia Butler's book, "Angels Dance, Angels Die." The book is very well researched and many Doors contemporaries, relatives and friends are interviewed; but I felt the book slanted the Jim and Pamela "love story" to a new mythology, likening them to "Romeo and Juliet;" which Jim and Pam are definately not. The only way Jim and Pam could ever be compared to that real-life tragic couple is to give Romeo and Juliet a couple million bucks and tell them to go out get drunk every night, get stoned and act like spoiled rotten children. Then die. No, that's not Romeo and Juliet, that's Jim and Pam. As with other Doors' biographies, Butler's book does show the utter waste of two human lives. But, gives little, if any new information on the subject of Jim Morrison's life. What I really wanted to hear was more about Pam's life after Morrison's death in 1971; her supposed drug use, speculated prostituation life-style and eventual death of a drug overdose. This is not very well covered in Butler's book.
However, I do give the book a 7 out of 10 and recommend it to other Doors fans; but read it with a ounce of disbelief as I think the book is too slanted in favor of the Jim/Pam relationship to be an unbiased and impartial voice in retelling the Morrison legacy.
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Summary: Correction of Kirkus Reviews Listing
Review: While it's flattering to be named as the co-author of a hugely successful book such as "No One Here Gets Out Alive," I'm afraid I had just graduated from high school in 1980 and was co-authoring nothing more exciting than college financial aid applications. Jerry Hopkins, who wrote the introduction to my current book "Angels Dance and Angels Die," co-authored "No One Here Gets Out Alive" with Danny Sugerman, not me.
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Summary: Pamela Morriosn: Tragic Juliet?
Review: Having been a Doors fan for many years, I thought I had read every book on the subject of Jim Morrison and The Doors. So, I was pleasantly surprised by Patricia Butler's book, "Angels Dance, Angels Die." The book is very well researched and many Doors contemporaries, relatives and friends are interviewed; but I felt the book slanted the Jim and Pamela "love story" to a new mythology, likening them to "Romeo and Juliet;" which Jim and Pam are definately not. The only way Jim and Pam could ever be compared to that real-life tragic couple is to give Romeo and Juliet a couple million bucks and tell them to go out get drunk every night, get stoned and act like spoiled rotten children. Then die. No, that's not Romeo and Juliet, that's Jim and Pam. As with other Doors' biographies, Butler's book does show the utter waste of two human lives. But, gives little, if any new information on the subject of Jim Morrison's life. What I really wanted to hear was more about Pam's life after Morrison's death in 1971; her supposed drug use, speculated prostituation life-style and eventual death of a drug overdose. This is not very well covered in Butler's book. However, I do give the book a 7 out of 10 and recommend it to other Doors fans; but read it with a ounce of disbelief as I think the book is too slanted in favor of the Jim/Pam relationship to be an unbiased and impartial voice in retelling the Morrison legacy.
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Summary: A Satisfying Read
Review: I have read many books on Jim Morrison, some better then others. I always found most of these books lacking in their depth of his most intimate and profound relationship, Pamela. For this I found the story very satisfying and seemed to ring true. Patricia Butler does a excellent job of collecting hard evidence to support the story she tells with all its craziness and romanticism thrown in for good measure. I thoroughly enjoyed the pictures too.
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Summary: Simply Wonderful
Review: I read the nasty comments of the last "anonymous" reviewer from California (isn't it funny how the nasty comments always come from people who don't give their names?) and I wondered if that person had read the same book I did. I found "Angels Dance and Angels Die" to be far, far from a "Harlequin Romance". The prose is straightforward, clearn, and logical, with a minimum of fuss and frills, which makes it a fast read, impossible to put down. Beyond that, I learned things about Jim Morrison I'd never read anywhere else. This is the first time I've seen his humorous, kind, thoughtful side given equal emphasis as his alcoholism and other problems. It's also the first time that those problems were put into perspective by filling in the years before he became famous, providing context and making his later actions easier to understand. As well, this is the first book that's ever given Pamela her due -- as an equal and often stronger partn! er in a union that may have been shaken by the personal problems of both lovers, but still remained strong against outside forces threatening to pull the two apart. I understand now what Jim and Pam saw in and meant to each other. Their shared history makes all the groupies and other women still, oddly, fighting to claim Jim's affection (he's dead, ladies -- move on) seem incredibly trivial in comparison. This is a thoughtful, knowledgeable book, and the years of research the writer put into its construction really shows. The book is incredibly well-referenced and believeable, fair, often funny, touching, and ultimately sad. I came away not only with a more detailed picture of a man I'd always admired, but also an appreciation of the woman he loved so much and an understanding of their fast lives in tumultuous times. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. It contained some very interesting and funny stories about JM before he became famous. I also got the feeling the information was well researched and factual. I couldn't put it down after I started reading it.
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Summary: A Satisfying Read
Review: The research in this book is mostly impressive. Everyone she interviews is listed, and there are many! I'll give the book three stars for that. However, the book falls flat because it doesn't have enough on the relationship of Jim and Pamela, which is supposed to be the whole point (I thought). What you do read about their relationship is really no surprise. Everyone knew Pamela was Jim's #1 squeeze, even though he fooled around with other gals. Everyone knew they fought and made up. You get more insight into their relationship looking at all the lovely pictures than you do reading this book. The fact Jim was photographed so many times with Pamela tells you something about Pamela vs. "other gals", more than this book will tell you. Pamela was "Queen of the Highway", but there's not enough of her here. It's still worth a read, just not what it could have been.
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Summary: Just trying to make money
Review: A beatifully written and thoroughly research book. The author has done her homework and includes references to all the interviewees and plenty of documentory evidence.
Whatever loves Jim may have had, Pam was the constant one, the one who was with him right up until the end. I know what it's like to love and hate the same person and yet remain constantly drawn to them. The two people were very young; they were both troubled souls but there is no doubt that they loved each other. Jim could have had any woman he wanted and most often did, but that was just f******. When that was over he returned to his mate, friend, confidant, muse, lover, cosmic equal that was Pam.
Patricia Keneeley is just a very bitter woman - lets face it, who wouldn't be if they had loved and lost such a beautiful and sexy man!
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