Jim Morrison's Chronicle
Harold Cobert "JIM" - Plon, France, 2014. ISBN 978-2-259-22242-6

I believed that I had read everything about Jim Morrison, that's why I waited to
buy this book. I was pleasantly surprised because the author had the good idea
to let Jim speak in the first person like he was telling his life story himself, his
drinking, the debaucheries, his loves, his successes and his disillusions. And in
the end we believe it! We are carried along by the intimate confessions of the
Lizard King. Even though we don’t learn anything new about the man, the singer,
the poet, we have the advantage of Jim being brought closer to us and more
human. Harold Cobert understood Jim's character very well, a charming man,
who finds himself in Paris disillusioned at the end of his life, angry against
society and his �entourage� and finally against himself. He let himself falling
into the star system trap, and finished by wasting all the beautiful promises that
were offered to him in the beginning ... and the author does this beautifully in
Jim's own voice. That's why I recommend you read it even though you think
you know everything about Jim Morrison.
At the moment the book is only available in French.

� Patricia Devaux for The Doors Quarterly Magazine Online - 2015

 
  La Chronique de Jim Morrison
Harold Cobert "JIM" - Plon, France, 2014. ISBN 978-2-259-22242-6
Je croyais avoir tout lu sur Jim Morrison c'est pourquoi j'ai attendu avant de me
d�cider � acheter ce livre. J'ai �t� agr�ablement surprise car l'auteur a eu la bonne
id�e de faire parler Jim � la premi�re personne comme si il nous racontait lui m�me
sa vie, ses boires et d�boires, ses amours, ses succ�s et ses d�sillusions. Et au final
on y croit! On se laisse prendre par ces confessions intimes du Roi L�zard qui, si
elles ne nous apprennent rien de nouveau sur l'homme, le chanteur, le po�te qu'il
�tait ont l'avantage de le rendre plus proche, plus humain. Harold Cobert a bien
cern� le personnage de Jim, un homme attachant, qui se retrouve � Paris � la fin
de sa vie, d�sabus�, en col�re contre la soci�t�, ses proches et par dessus tout
contre lui m�me qui a fini par g�cher toutes les belles promesses qui s'offraient
� lui... Un livre � lire donc m�me si l'on croit tout savoir sur Jim Morrison.
Pour le moment cet ouvrage est uniquement disponible en fran�ais.

� Patricia Devaux pour The Doors Quarterly Magazine Online - 2015