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Summary: Why not?
Review: It did puzzle me that the author included no photos of herself, but I figured it was written more as a tribute to Jim Morrison than an opportunity to seek some sort of limelight for herself. Perhaps that is naive, but it would appear by all accounts that Jim Morrison was extremely free with his affections and had a knack for making all the girls he was with feel like "the one," even though they knew full there were others. Did Jim Morrison really intend to marry Linda Ashcroft? Probably not. No more than he did anyone else, anyway. But the author was at an impressionable age and Morrison seemed to thrive on carrying on a sort of "secret" life. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this account -- not entirely, anyway.
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Summary: An incredible story, incredibly narrated
Review: I'm very surprised that people didn't like this book. Ok, I'm no Morrison scholar (not even a huge Doors fan, honestly), but I read a ton of biographies and this is one of the best I've ever seen about anyone. I just adored this story. Ashcroft is an incredible writer, capable of making 500 pages seem like a trifle. I defy anyone not to fall in love with Morrison by page 15. Highly recommended!
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Summary: a very bad fiction book
Review: I can't believe People actually believe anything this so called "Linda ashcroft" wrote. This is just as bad as Patricia K's book. I mean, where did Jim really fine these women, who are now, making money off of his good soul. These two ladies(can we actually call them ladies) are only out there for the money. How can they claim they own Jim's heart, when everyone knows he only Loved Pamela Courson. Don't buy this book, if you need to read it, just borrow it somewhere. Don't let these ladies make more money off of Jim Morrison. Buy Instead "the Lords and The New Creature's" instead. All dedicated to his real wife Pamela Courson Morrison.
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Summary: interesting fiction
Review: I enjoyed this book not for its revealing look into Jim Morrison's life and certainly not for its literary value. If read as a fictional love story, it's okay. If you really want to take it as truth, that's your choice, but I happen to know that it never happened. In fact, Jim Morrison's parents stopped the book from being sold in the UK because it contained so many untruths. (She claims that she tried to have sex with him at the age of 15. Was Jim capable of statutory rape?) You can decide. If you want an okay love story, read this book. If you want something that's more about what Jim Morrison was like, read Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's Strange Days.
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Summary: and how do you know?
Review: How do you know he wasn't a f*!cking Physics professor that pulled disappearing acts with his girlfriend all over the place. Did you ever see Taxi? Have you ever actually been to a concert?
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Summary: wishing it were true
Review: I feel this a really good book for anyone who likes a good romantic story. In the end as I'd like to think it is true, I just can't believe it is so. There are so many things that prove otherwise. Such as the only people (friends) of Morrison that she met, had died before she wrote this book. Also if it were true she would probably have at least have a couple pictures to show for it, oh wait I forgot about that stuff stolen out of her closet. And you would also think if he'd introduce her to his girlfriend that he would also introduce her to the other band members, but that wouldn't work out because they are all still alive and well. It makes for a good read and left me wishing so much that it was true, but all I can sum it up as, is some teenage girl who ran into Jim Morrison a couple times and decided to fan it up a bit into a novel.
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Summary: lizard king and his true princess
Review: When I first received the book, I was thinking this was a hoax. That the book was going to be another groupie fairytale about Morrison. How wrong I was. From the first chapter on, Linda takes us to a magical realm called true love. She didn't love him because of who he was, she had found her true soulmate, Jim had found his true soulmate. I am not easily impressed by these types of books, most are all flowery and lies, Linda shows that Morrison truly had many different personalities and she has the capability to explain them to you in a very personal way , Ms. Kennealy lives in a fairy world, I read her book, this book takes you deep into the psyche of Morrison, his passions and his madness. Linda tells you the exact truth of Jim Morrison's death. She had a relationship with Pam Courson and was inspired by Anias Nin to write this book. Pam Courson called her the day Jim died from Paris and the exact way she killed him with heroin. This is the real deal people. Get it, read it, absorbe it. You'll see the true "Jim Morrison" through a true writer/artist's eyes, Linda, I would like to shake your hand. Michele, Oxford, CT
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Summary: WHERE'S THE PROOF???????
Review: It probably wouldn't be that difficult to say you had an affair with Jim Morrison (I'm certain many did) but a "relationship" is another matter. Although this book certainly qualifies as an interesting read, Ms. Ashcroft fails to provide any proof that anything more existed. Come on, if I was dating a famous rock star, I'd probably have at least ONE picture to show. Of course there is the obligatory break-in where all evidence (including the wedding rings!) was stolen....It was amazing that they went right to the closet where everthing was stored, took the evidence and left the closed box to be found by the author at a later date ....Call me a skeptic, but I'm just not convinced.
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Summary: wrong
Review: the lady swimming in the river was Lynne Krieger.
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Summary: At Last!!
Review: This is the book I hungered for. The simple honest truth! Of all the books I have read on Jim Morrison, this one at least shows no exaggeration of his wild life and by the end of this book I felt I had known Jim Morrison for who he truly was a poet,rock star, sensitive person who could love and who also felt human pain who was torn apart from so many different worlds. Linda Ashcroft's meanings behind some of the songs was very helpful. The only thing troubling me is that the dates don't seem to match up with the rock stars schedule back then?? I found myself reading this book twice.
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