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Summary: Written Through the Storm...
Review: Reading words can create/carry such insights and feelings. Many are found in this book. I was aloud to grow closer to Jim Morrison and to begin to know Linda Ashcroft. These real people found each other in the creative mix and environments that were California in the late sixties. Besides being about a revolution of love, the story widens with the true personalities each player introduces behind all the drinking, druging and fast times we know as rock and roll. Jim was a poet/film student, army brat, and indulging shaman. Linda, a writer by her own right and (YES!) confidante/co-creator behind the genius of her teenage idol. Really Jim was much more than an idol to her. She found in him her own creative powers that helped to carry him emotionally through very ruff waters, and the ghosts of his past and present. She could do this because she herself had a similar twist in her own background... This was a journey of painfully healing friendships and a long overdue testimony and revelation from the authentic but secret woman and co-creator behind the delightfully mysterious Doors! Find here, keys for deeper interpretations of several Doors' lyrics...
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Summary: poetic portraits of the children of the night
Review: Wild Child is the story of the friendship between the author - Linda Ashcroft, and the singer and poet - Jim Morrison. The book begins shortly before their meeting, which occured in the summer of 1967. When they do meet, they form a close, sensual friendship - which will remain so, until Jim Morrison's early death... but until we reach that part, we're given the opportunity to look into their life together. Into their games, their play, their passion, their strive for freedom and the healing of their spirits. It all arose strong feelings in me. Since Wild Child is based on Linda's own journal from the period of time when she knew Jim Morrison, it is a complex and very detailed story, written with beautiful, painting words which makes you see the scenes before you clearly.. and due to her perceptiveness, you're given quite a good insight on what really happened at every moment - it helps you look beyond the surface. We're given a rare and sensetive portrait of Jim Morrison, and most of the other characters mentioned in the book (such as Jim's girlfriend - Pamela Courson, and the guitarist Jimi Hendrix), are pictured quite intimatly, as well. Personally, i love drama..and people with a fire inside.. This book has a great deal of that element in it. So therefor, and because of the beauty, intelligence, freedom, poetry and romance in this book..i give it 5 stars. You deserve it ;)
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Summary: More Holes then swiss cheese
Review: This is not a bad book if it was presented for what it was FICTION. This women has NO hard evidence to support her claims. Everyone that can substantiate her story are all...well,dead...all evidence to support her relationship with Morrison have all been...well, stolen and no one in Morrison's intimate circle (that are still alive) have ever heard of her.I would never say she never met Morrison, it is possible...but it is clear this "true" love story is more or all imagination and no reality. The reader will begin to doubt from very early on when the author clearly uses specific dialogue as if writing a play...Memory is one thing but to remember word for word dialogue from 30 years before seems ridiculous to say the least..
I could have made a similiar claim and built a whole story around a love affair even though I was born AFTER he died..after all I have just as much "evidence" as the author does...
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Summary: Uh-Oh.....
Review: You mean there are still people on this planet who haven't read Salli Stevenson's expose of this book? I can't believe any real Doors fan would take this book seriously! Lets get real, Linda's "story" has been compared to the Doors actual itinerary, and it doesn't add up or stand up. The Doors were on the road MOST of the time Linda claims she was with Jim in CA. Only those who enjoy reading romance novels might feel satisfied with this tripe. If you want any real truth on Jim, skip this! Linda doesn't have truth, just her imagination. It's well-written, but I want facts on my favorite musicians, not school-girl fantasy.
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Summary: Wild Child: Life With Jim Morrison
Review: I needed at least to let you know how much the book "Life with Jim Morrison...
Wild Child" means to me and how it has changed my life. I read it and when I was finished immediately started reading it again. Each time I read it (this is my 10th time) I take something more precious away with me----I cry, I laugh, I learn, I ponder, I realize new ways of thought and understanding, I travel along with Linda and Jim and experience.
My dear Mother, passed on, June 5th, 2004, from Lung Cancer which spread into her brain and spine also.....
She had been sick for the last 2-3 years--for some comfort of my own during this extremely stressful time and I must admit escape and for some existential answers, I turned to The Doors music and Jim's words. I am from that generation (birthday 2-26-51) and "grew up" with "The Doors." Jim's words always seemed to help me get through especially what was unknown. So to escape and at the same time try and get some answers.....I devoured the words in Jim's songs and poems.....like "learn to forget" and
"the future is uncertain and the end is always near."
As my Mom became more dependent on me just for everyday survival because her illness was devoring her and in order for me just to go on and do what at that time seemed the impossible.....I began to read Linda's book. I would just throw myself into the words and pages of "Wild Child".
I could lose myself into the reality Linda and Jim allowed me to slip into and experience along with them. Words cannot begin to explain how important this became for me.....a safe place to go and immerse myself the reality they both shared.
This allowed me to come back into the here and the now when I was finished reading, which gave me the strength
and the courage to face the duties I had to perform for my Mom and also helped me face the reality of my Mom sickness and helped me handle how it was robbing her of her life with me.
Thank-you so very much,Linda, for sharing so much of yourself and your Jim-- you and Jim helped me to continue on and do what I knew I had to. Linda's Novel and words are still and always will give me the courage and the strength that I need to continue on my life path. This was one of the best books I read about JIM MORRISON and I've read them all. I highly reccommend it to any Doors fan and espically anyone who is interested in the Jim Morrison. Extremely factual.
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Summary: PUH-LEEZE -- a bizarre work of pure fiction/obsession
Review: I enjoyed reading the 55 reviews more than this hoax masquerading as a love story. I figured the story was fiction from page 3, and the only reason I kept reading the book was to see what outrageous claim came next... and I wasn't disappointed. Besides the obvious, i.e., no proof, date conflicts, items "stolen" and all witnesses dead (except Dennis Hopper), Jim's personality -- even on his best behavior -- was nothing like Ms. Ashcroft described. Sorry to break the news, but in addition to being an alcoholic AND a brilliant mad man, Jim was incapable of this type of "pure" relationship during his troubled lifetime. Perhaps as he aged and sorted himself out he may have been capable of a monogamous, give-and-take stable journey with one woman, but it would have been with his equal, not a 15-year-old child. Her description of Pamela Courson as a wimp and sniffler couldn't be further from the truth. Pamela had plenty of experience with Jim's groupies and would have either (1) ignored this stalker, or (2) flattened her. Finally, the unsubstantiated claims Ashcroft made in the UK version are disturbing and were culled from rumors that have been flying around for years.
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Summary: More Holes then swiss cheese
Review: You mean there are still people on this planet who haven't read Salli Stevenson's expose of this book? I can't believe any real Doors fan would take this book seriously! Lets get real, Linda's "story" has been compared to the Doors actual itinerary, and it doesn't add up or stand up. The Doors were on the road MOST of the time Linda claims she was with Jim in CA. Only those who enjoy reading romance novels might feel satisfied with this tripe. If you want any real truth on Jim, skip this! Linda doesn't have truth, just her imagination. It's well-written, but I want facts on my favorite musicians, not school-girl fantasy.
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