Title: The Arrow Flies: This is the Essential Morrison
Product review: Co-written by someone who knew Jim, the Sugarman-Hopkins bio does not escape idol worship of Morrison. Despite its flaws, it makes for a great primer on Jim Morrison and the Doors, capturing his trajectory from his awkward childhood, to poet, intellectual, drug user/experimentor, to rock star, to angry drunk and abuser. Morrison is a complex character, perhaps more interesting, introspective, well read and intelligent than any popular muscian has been since.Recognizing Morrison's Nietzschian influence, Sugarman-Hopkins capture Morrison as the personification of Nietzshe's Dionysus. Their thesis is compelling and obviously an influence of Oliver Stone's filmography.For those interested in the Doors or American Pop Music Culture, I throughly recommend this book.
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