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Summary: Everything you want to know about Jim Morrison
Review: This book was excellent. If you like Jim Morrison & The Doors, you'll love this book.
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Summary: Dionysus himself
Review: This is a better interpretation than No one here gets out alive but the author does tend to exalt and worship Morrison. This particular book however offers more insight into Jim's influences, his college days, his rooftop inspirations, and examines his actions and disposition from a psychological perspective. I wonder if Jim understood the balance of Apollo and Dionysus. I wonder if on a certain reading of Nietzsche he thought Nietzsche denied the importance of the Apollonian aspect on creativity and existence? It certainly seems that way. Nevertheless you can't deny credit where credit is due. Morrison was an intensly creative individual.
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Summary: James Riordan: "Break on Through"
Review: This is a good, factual account of the life and times of Jim Morrison, focusing mainly on his career as lead singer of The Doors. I recommend this book be read in parallel with Hopkins and Sugerman's "No One Here Gets Out Alive". These two books cover many of the same incidents, putting different spins on them. There is some real meat in this book, and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: great book
Review: This is a great book that does full justice to the life of Jim Morrison. It not only gives a discription of the times but goes off and explains the philosophy behind a lot of what was happening.Would sure recommend it!!
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Summary: The best biography on Jim Morrison and The Doors
Review: This is the best biography on Jim Morrison and The Doors. This book has the best insight information than any other Doors book I'v read. This book is great for any person, even a person who's not a fan of The Doors. But, for a real Doors fan this book is PURE GOLD!!!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This was a fun book, I didn't want it to end.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: This was a great book! I'm 14, and loved it! The Doors are the best, and this book brings out their whole story. It also has a lot of cool pictures in it, get this book now!
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Summary: A Classic Biography Of A Classic Rock Icon.
Review: While the world awaits the new book on Jim Morrison by Stephen Davis, you can still take time and appreciate James Riordan's classic work on this already classic subject. Jim Morrison remains one of the great icons of rock music, his image of a brilliant, insane poet who's antics and stage presence paved the way for gothic, theatrical rock (artists like Iggy Pop, Marilyn Manson and Scott Weiland all confirm the influence) is timeless and still inspiring to many. Riordan does his subject total justic with a book written with a literary flair in the words and an attention to detail that makes it vital to both the newcomer to The Doors and to Morrison followers. The portrait we are presented with at the end is of a genius driven by ideas and troubled by personal demons that probably did him in. What's fascinating is how Riordan has managed to dissect every aspect of the man. He studies in detail Morrison's tastes in surrealism, poetry and shamanism and makes comparisons between shamanistic rituals and Morrison's own stage behaviuor. And yet amongst all this the author never loses touch with what has made Morrison immortal in popular culture, the music. We get in-depth examinations of the lyrics and sound of The Doors and it's influence on artists such as Patti Smith, U2 and Alice Cooper. And Riordan never loses the sense of making the book entertaining, he writes with a novelistic touch that makes the book feel almost cinematic in it's approach, just read the first chapter, or better yet, the first page. "Break On Through" is a brilliant biography that any bookphile or rock enthusiast would enjoy. It's a captivating character study and an interesting look at the power of rock music in our age.
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