Bright Midnight edition by John Hayes Literature Fiction eBooks
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Enter the Psychedelic Sixties with Bright Midnight. Jim Harrison, the singer for the edgy L.A. rock band The Changelings, narrates his band’s phenomenal rise to success during the decade of free love, peace, and protest. Although he becomes famous, Jim is torn by his ambition to become a poet rather than a rock vocalist and sex star. As his girlfriend becomes addicted to hard drugs, he develops other intimacies and wrestles with his own tendencies towards self-destruction through drinking. The turmoil and angst of stardom, maintaining a love life, and ambitions to be a fine artist drive him to new heights of creativity, paranoia and frustration, pushing him ever closer to making a choice between life and death.
During the late Sixties, a kind of renaissance took place in the streets and clubs of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Jim is very much at the center of this underground revolution fueled by sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll, yet played out as a "feast of friends". Bright Midnight depicts a world where the imaginary is just as important as the real. It depicts characters who seek a free and hedonistic lifestyle only to pay the price of freedom nervous breakdowns and nirvana. This book should be interesting to anyone who listens to rock and roll music and considers what the lyrics are saying.
Enter the Sixties with Bright Midnight.
Bright Midnight edition by John Hayes Literature Fiction eBooks
I felt drawn to this book, as I am a long-time lover of the music of The Doors, but even more so of Jim Morrison. The protagonist in "Bright Midnight" is Jim "Harrison," a rock star and front man for the Los Angeles rock band "The Changelings." I got it right away that this was a novel about the life of Jim Morrison as gleaned through the psyche of the writer.I'm careful about to whom I reveal my sense of kinship with Jim Morrison, as I've learned over the years that many fans, both young and old, will reduce any conversation about him to his sex-ploits, heavy drinking and tragic, mysterious death at the age of 27. To me, the real story has always been that this Morrison was a poet and a mystic struggling to contend with his artistic and psychologically wounded nature while simultaneously drowning in the confusing maelstrom of a culture throwing off the shackles of sexual and emotional repression.
Author John Hays has certainly included the sexual exploits, romantic intrigues, heavy drinking and overall the biographical story line as it has been written in countless non-fiction books. Intriguingly, he gives the objectified rock star an inner voice and by doing so invites us to consider the difference between the man and the myth.
Hays' well-textured prose and a gift for natural dialogue makes for effortless reading. In fact, I finished the book in just a few days, not being able to put it down. If you are a kindred Morrisonian, I believe you, too will find yourself engaged from early on in the book. If you're not, then I encourage you to hang in there so you can get to Part III of the novel, for it is at this point that the novel accelerates and deepens into rather riveting developments worthy of a good mystery novel.
To be candid, as a former English major, I did have some peeves about the book, mostly of an editorial nature. I was a little kerfuffled by a number of typos and misspellings. And as a resident of the American Southwest, there were a few errors about our flora and fauna that could stand some revision in a future edition.
Ultimately, the book inspired a fair amount of nostalgia for both Jim Morrison, and for the hallucinatory, confusing, innocent and bizarre era that was the '60s. A day or so after I finished reading "Bright Midnight," I turned on my iPod to listen to some music on the shuffle setting. I had to laugh and shake my head in wonderment as roughly half of the songs were by The Doors, as if Jim Morrison (Jim Harrison) himself had noticed that I'd been psychically dialed into his cosmic channel for a few days. Quite strange and wonderful.
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Bright Midnight edition by John Hayes Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I felt drawn to this book, as I am a long-time lover of the music of The Doors, but even more so of Jim Morrison. The protagonist in "Bright Midnight" is Jim "Harrison," a rock star and front man for the Los Angeles rock band "The Changelings." I got it right away that this was a novel about the life of Jim Morrison as gleaned through the psyche of the writer.
I'm careful about to whom I reveal my sense of kinship with Jim Morrison, as I've learned over the years that many fans, both young and old, will reduce any conversation about him to his sex-ploits, heavy drinking and tragic, mysterious death at the age of 27. To me, the real story has always been that this Morrison was a poet and a mystic struggling to contend with his artistic and psychologically wounded nature while simultaneously drowning in the confusing maelstrom of a culture throwing off the shackles of sexual and emotional repression.
Author John Hays has certainly included the sexual exploits, romantic intrigues, heavy drinking and overall the biographical story line as it has been written in countless non-fiction books. Intriguingly, he gives the objectified rock star an inner voice and by doing so invites us to consider the difference between the man and the myth.
Hays' well-textured prose and a gift for natural dialogue makes for effortless reading. In fact, I finished the book in just a few days, not being able to put it down. If you are a kindred Morrisonian, I believe you, too will find yourself engaged from early on in the book. If you're not, then I encourage you to hang in there so you can get to Part III of the novel, for it is at this point that the novel accelerates and deepens into rather riveting developments worthy of a good mystery novel.
To be candid, as a former English major, I did have some peeves about the book, mostly of an editorial nature. I was a little kerfuffled by a number of typos and misspellings. And as a resident of the American Southwest, there were a few errors about our flora and fauna that could stand some revision in a future edition.
Ultimately, the book inspired a fair amount of nostalgia for both Jim Morrison, and for the hallucinatory, confusing, innocent and bizarre era that was the '60s. A day or so after I finished reading "Bright Midnight," I turned on my iPod to listen to some music on the shuffle setting. I had to laugh and shake my head in wonderment as roughly half of the songs were by The Doors, as if Jim Morrison (Jim Harrison) himself had noticed that I'd been psychically dialed into his cosmic channel for a few days. Quite strange and wonderful.
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