Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Book Excerpt for the Day


    Words were what excited Jim [Morrison], writing rather than singing them.  “I never did any singing,” he told Rolling Stone, looking back on his youth.  “I never even conceived it.  I thought I was going to be a writer or a sociologist, maybe write plays.  Anne expected her brother to become a poet “and be poor all his life”.  As an example of his intellectual interests, she notes that when he graduated from high school in 1961 he asked his parents for the complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche as a reward, which says something about the sort of boy he was and offers a key to understanding the performer he became.

    (from 27 – A History of the 27 Club… by Howard Sounes)

  9½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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