A model of multimedia publishing and an essential for fans of the band and students of rock history alike.
Blast their music at top volume and you will know “what it was like to hear men play rock ’n’ roll music.” So writes Hunter S. Thompson, making a cameo in this thoroughgoing biography of the iconic rock band.
The recent death of founder Ray Manzarek has brought renewed attention to the extent of The Doors’ influence over the last 45 years. Spearheaded by veteran producer and former Electra Records head Jac Holzman, this app bowed in just before Manzarek’s passing. Naturally, it is singer Jim Morrison, a walking train wreck, who commands the most attention, but Holzman and contributors such as David Fricke and Greil Marcus (with smaller pieces by Patti Smith, Barney Hoskyns and the band members themselves) give all due to the brilliant musicianship of Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. Each of the band’s albums is presented in detail, with sound samples that link to full files available from the iTunes store. There are lyrics too (even the blue ones of “The End”), as well as promo videos and technical notes on the details of recording (such as the fact that “Unknown Soldier,” from “Waiting for the Sun,” marks “the first use of 8-track Dolby ‘A’ on a pop record.” An additional gallery offers a trove of still photographs, videos, demos, concert posters and other material. All the material is easily navigable and intuitively laid out. Fair warning to fans and rock geeks: This poses every danger of being an enormous time sink, since each piece is part of the puzzle, from a recent gubernatorial pardon granted to Morrison for the infamous charge of lewd and indecent behavior to Francis Ford Coppola explaining how the opening sequence of Apocalypse Now came into being.
A model of multimedia publishing and an essential for fans of the band and students of rock history alike.Pub Date: May 6, 2013
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Warner Music Group
Review Posted Online: June 25, 2013
The emotions run high, the conversations run deep, and the relationships ebb and flow with grace.
When tragedy strikes, a mother and daughter forge a new life.
Morgan felt obligated to marry her high school sweetheart, Chris, when she got pregnant with their daughter, Clara. But she secretly got along much better with Chris’ thoughtful best friend, Jonah, who was dating her sister, Jenny. Now her life as a stay-at-home parent has left her feeling empty but not ungrateful for what she has. Jonah and Jenny eventually broke up, but years later they had a one-night stand and Jenny got pregnant with their son, Elijah. Now Jonah is back in town, engaged to Jenny, and working at the local high school as Clara’s teacher. Clara dreams of being an actress and has a crush on Miller, who plans to go to film school, but her father doesn't approve. It doesn’t help that Miller already has a jealous girlfriend who stalks him via text from college. But Clara and Morgan’s home life changes radically when Chris and Jenny are killed in an accident, revealing long-buried secrets and forcing Morgan to reevaluate the life she chose when early motherhood forced her hand. Feeling betrayed by the adults in her life, Clara marches forward, acting both responsible and rebellious as she navigates her teenage years without her father and her aunt, while Jonah and Morgan's relationship evolves in the wake of the accident. Front-loaded with drama, the story leaves plenty of room for the mother and daughter to unpack their feelings and decide what’s next.
The emotions run high, the conversations run deep, and the relationships ebb and flow with grace.Pub Date: Dec. 10, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5420-1642-1
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Review Posted Online: Oct. 13, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 2019
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A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.
Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006).
A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene.
A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.Pub Date: June 16, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine
Review Posted Online: Feb. 9, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020
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