Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek
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Book Reviews of Light My Fire
Book Review: Light my fire.... and did it ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading this book, I feel like all my questions about the doors have been answered. Ray Manzarek gives the correct view of the doors. Very down to earth and honest... this book is awesome and so are the Doors. Ray... Write more!Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book after watching Oliver Stone's movie. I love the fact that Manzarak clears up events and how they happened. I reccomend this book. It is a mixture of great poetry and great writting. Bye it today!Book Review: Back when music was good
Summary: 5 Stars
Many interesting new tidbits about the band. Find out about Mr. Manzarek's upbringing in Chicago, his days at UCLA film school, founding The Doors, playing at the London Fog, etc. An overall good book.Book Review: Light My Fire
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book for my 18-year-old grandson and just like The Doors Anthology he loves it and especially the music of that era.Book Review: some false cheer that is mighty suspicious, but still great
Summary: 4 Stars
you get the sense in "light my fire" that manzarek is trying to put a little bit of a false happy spin on the brief stay of the doors in rock's ivory tower, but there is also a lot here that seems genuinely sincere and interesting. this is obviously happier and less dark than densmore's truly depressing "riders on the storm", but methinks that perhaps manzarek wanted to do his deceased friend jim morrison a favor by not completely spilling the unpleasant beans as densmore did. from both books we get the sense of morrison as a truly unhappy and tortured soul who had serious trouble relating to people and had an almost pathological urge toward self destruction. the tragic thing is that no one, however much they wanted to help morrison or save him from himself, ever seemed to really connect with him or get to the root of his self hatred and utter despair. one can only imagine what happened in morrison's shadowy past before he burst into the spotlight that would cause him to behave the way he did. with most people who eagerly destroy themselves in this way it usually turns out that things such as sexual abuse, parental rejection, or perhaps a chemical imbalance fuel their decadence, shuts them off from others and put the nails in their proverbial self made coffins. some people simply write off morrison's drug/alcohol abuse and hostility toward any kind of limits as a product of his genius and individual temperament, but this is too easy and far too romantic. like so many of the enigmatic legends of pop culture, morrison's motivations and the driving force behind his bizarre lifestyle and character is and will probably always remain a mystery. at the end of "light my fire" we are as in the dark about things as we are before we started it, but it is entertaining and at times informative and vivid. i would certainly recommend this book over oliver stone's horrendous film and the truly hoky "no one here gets out alive", both of which are sensationlistic, money grubbing examples of dishonor to the memory of this fascinating figure. read it.