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Title: I wanted to like it...
Review: I really did want to. I was a huge Doors fan back in the 60's and have recently started reading the many books on them, including this author's memoir, "Light My Fire", which I liked very much. This novel, however, was so ridiculous that after the fist 30 pages, I should have known what was coming. By about 50 pages in, he had found and solved the mystery. Come on! At that point, I had my own (better) ending picked out, skipped a bunch of the middle, and was laughing sadly at the actual conclusion. The "disguised" names he gave people and places were so silly, and the way he referred to the other 2 band members as simply "the guitar player" and "the drummer" was actually a favor, although I'm sure he didn't mean it to be. I would love to believe that somehow Jim Morrison faked his death and is alive and well out there somewhere, but I know it's not true and this just seems to be a way of making money from a long-past tragedy.
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