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Summary: A great primer for new Morrison junkies
Review: Hopkins gives a great synopsis of the life and time of rock poet Morrison. If you've read "No One Here Gets Out Alive" then you've read this material through and through, but the additional insights and the commentary on the Oliver Stone movie (including Hopkins' reactions to meeting Val Kilmer for the first time) are worth a read. Hopkins' style is fluid and easy to follow.
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Summary: Is it good? It depends.
Review: I loved the seven interviews. Especially the interview with Salli Stevenson. Salli: "What about you, though..." Jim Morrison: "I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
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Summary: On the eve of self-destruction.
Review: I loved the seven interviews. Especially the interview with Salli Stevenson. Salli: "What about you, though..." Jim Morrison: "I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
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Summary: Just a great book
Review: I think that this book is a great seller and that people who love Jim Morrison and the Doors should read this book. I found this book very interesting and it kept me wanting more. I could hardly put this book down. The details in this book are intensifying, and you can almost picture what the author is telling you. This is a great book.
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Summary: Is it good? It depends.
Review: If you've read Noone Here Gets Out Alive, you don't really need to read this book. It gives some new facts and stories, but not many. It sheds new light on his death which is very interesting, but is it worth buying? It has much better photographs than Alive and the interviews at the end are OK. However, if you've never read Alive, buy this one instead. I would have loved this book had I never read Alive. Just remember, the Doors are known for glamourizing everything they say.
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Summary: What I found...
Review: In "The Lizard King" by Jerry hopkins was a really good book but there were some mistakes that can confuse first time readers..
Like on pg.80 it said "'Strange Days', the song that insisted that people were ugly when they're alone". But we all know that those lyrics come from the song "People are Strange" not "Strange Days". Also on pg.100 it said that the documentary the Doors made (Feast of Friends) came form the song "The End" but those lyrics come from "When the Music's Over". And, finally on pg.127 it said "In the summer and fall of 1989, Jim rented first the second and then the ground floor of a building across the street from Elektra offices". I wasn't aware that Jim was alive in 1989. But besides the mistakes I thougth that Jerry did an excellent job on the book.
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Summary: The one and only book for the true Jim Morrison.
Review: It tells the best story of his life without all the major hype and b.s. that are includedin a lot of the other publications. If you want good reading and good information read this
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Summary: Interesting sequel to his first book on Jim Morrison
Review: Jerry Hopkins espouses many new theories about Jim's drinking and his death. What struck me were the facts brought forth in the book about Pamela. Pam was a heroin addict. Jim despised heroin. Pam has been quoted as saying she was tired of Jim. She drained Jim Morrison's finances with her boutique. She had numerous affairs until heroin became her true love. She died penniless, a prostitute, guilt ridden and selfishly kept quiet over her role in contributing to the death of the man she "loved." She left him to die in that bathtub in France, knowing he was ill, vomiting from the nose. She chose to sleep instead. She chose to bury the man she loved sans headstone, sans ceremony. Want to read more? Buy the book.
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Summary: enthusiastic but godawful--if only jerry could spell
Review: jerry hopkins has the fiery enthusiasm and idol worship of a five year old really digging barney, but as far as spelling and grammar go, he leaves much to be desired. he talks excitedly about how morrison was fascinated by such existential philosophers as 'friederich nietzsche' and psychoanalyst 'sandor firinczi'. also, his objectivity seems eh, a bit skewed at times? a passage on an airlines incident involving morrison and fellow artist tom baker goes something like this: "the nincompoops and jerks who prosecuted jim were hard put to bring any real evidence against him, although jim's friend tom baker had indeed acted silly." he also lets us in on a really interesting incident involving jim in 1989! hmmm. i'm thinking the guy who published this book must also have been of the countercultural persuasion, and decided to release it for a dimebag provided by our boy jerry. this is good for those want to be well versed in hopkinspeak and the fine art of money making sensationalism, but for those who are after a real insight into the actual life of jim morrison, look elsewhere. anywhere.
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Summary: Riding the snake with Jim
Review: The book dives right into the thick of Jim's life. It developes the great character Jim was with acute accuracy. Hopkins and Jim had mutual positive feelings in their interview relationship,which oft times took place with social lubricant flowing. Therfore the tone keeps you admiring Jim. A must read for any Jim fan. -John Calgelia,17 Pittsburgh,PA
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