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Mr. Mojo
- A Biography of Jim Morrison
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
In Paris' Pre-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists, and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalized among the rock and roll deities such as Hendrix and Joplin. In death, however, this debauched "rock poet" remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever.
Who was the real Jim Morrison? Nihilist, egoist, shaman: He was a master of self-creation. A mosaic mythology of new-age hippy rhetoric, French poetry and Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself.
In this colorful and intimate biography, Dylan Jones strips bare the skin-tight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona and offers a frank and honest appraisal of a much beloved and often-romanticized countercultural icon. Mr. Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers, and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public self-destruction.
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- Ross L.
- 09-05-15
Excellent
Beautifully crafted story. Not sure about the voice imitations but all the same very enjoyable and a luxury to have more Doors material in this day and age.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-04-23
One-sided and poorly researched
Jim Morrison wad a complex character. He drank too much, but he was also a legendary front man and a genuine poet with an equally genuine appreciation for Niwtzsche's philosophy and many other writers beside that.
This poorly written book reduces Mr Mojo to a disorderly drunk. He was out of control. But take just one listen to LA Woman and you will realise that Morrison was a deep and perceptive thinker and one hell of rockstar. Do NOT waste time or money on this book!
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- Anonymous User
- 30-03-21
Vulgar
Awful it's just another book that yet again paints Jim in a bad light .
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- Scott Sibbald
- 05-03-16
Book was good but the silly accents
The story was not new and the end is the same as life but the book was destroyed by the narrators child like stereotypical accents. Why it was done this way I don't know just silly and it spoiled the book.. I almost gave up at the start due to the accents and I now feel I should have refunded this. Feel sorry for the author.. Avoid.com
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