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This Is the End My Only Friend: Living and Dying With Jim Morrison

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I was looking for a book about Jim Morrison but what i got, in this book, far exceeded my expectations, and, in fact was much better than i had hoped. It is an account of a girl's first love and how it changed her, and how her obsession affected her life. it is a book about her rite of passage, which included not only her relationship with jim morrison, but also her use of drugs, her thoughts and concerns, her obsessions and uncertainties. In our modern world, which is so obsessed with image and celebrities, she might not have gotten the book published if she had had a relationship with an ordinary person. She had a relationship with a famous and charismatic rock star, but he really is not the center of the book - she is. And because of that, the book is more interesting. She speaks in a way that i can relate to and identify with. She described different states of mind very clearly and believably. And this book is undoubtedly a true story. Apparently, Miss Huddleston was the consultant for Oliver Stone's movie about Jim Morrison. The part of the book, near the end, about her breakdown and hospitalization,years after jim morrison's death, was not overly dramatic, but appropriately so, and fascinating and realistic. Because of the skill of her writing, she brings you into the mindset. I highly recommend this book to anyone, whether a "child of that time" or someone younger wanting to read something about jim morrison and his impact on one young woman.

I love reading Jim Morrison books but in my personal opinion, I haven't come across any written by his 'old girlfriends' that seem true or realistic; until this one. Judy writes an open an honest account on her times with Morrison and how she was a star-strucked young girl and had the dream of being his 'one and only'. She makes it clear through the entire book that he was very charming and smart, etc. but he was a human being who had his faults. She also made it clear on how she realizes she shouldn't have tolerated the way he treated her and how she could obviously never get him to love her (although she wished she could). In my eyes, I can definitely relate to a young teenage girl being 'starstruck' and wanting so badly to turn a once-in-a-while fling (which Jim viewed it as) to a lifelong romance. Truthful, honest, and open; this book is probably the ONLY believable book written by a former lover of Jim's.

This wonderful book, about a relationhsip with one of the most mysterious and charismatic rock stars, is blatant in its honesty. Often, through her perfectly timed and wickedly dry sense of humor, Ms. Huddleston simultantouesly shows us her naivete in direct conflict with her alter ego which knows better than to think for a moment that Jim Morrison will actually rise to her girlhood-like expectations. Revealing in every way, funny and touching, I read this one straight through!!

Having grown up in the same time period myself,this was a book that brought back so many memories of just how young and foolish we were. This book was reminiscent of that crazy time period when just out of high school,the heady freedom of expermination and vulerabilty takes hold, and so many of us were impressionable and intriqued by the underground movement that swept through the late 60's ....love-ins,rock concerts, sex and drugs.....it's more like a coming of age book of a girl going down a wild road, out of control but mesmerized by the rock star. She knows it's not healthy but she can't stop. I thought the writing was great and told an interesting story of that era about young girls, the spell they fall under and what eventually happens to them. What makes the book more fascinating is that the rock and roll star is Jim Morrison! It's the most authentic book I've read about the Doors and hope we will see a sequel.

Oliver Stone is quoted on the cover for "an extremely important book that put Jim Morrison into perspective for the film". Really? Why? Of all he books I have om Jimbo and the Doors this one must be rated as the worst of them all. After putting it down, you don't know more about Morrison than before, so I wonder why Val Kilmer on the back of the book is quoted for " the book was my bible for the film". It's amazing that the author is able to recollect all the conversations she had with Morrison considering the hazed state she was in must of the time. Also, why isn't there any pictures of her and Morrison together. Where they really together more than a couple of times?

Well, one good thing about my copy, I found it on sale for a few bucks, so that alone makes it worth the lone star.

This is an "OK" book. It was short and was not as intimate of a look into Jim's life as what I had expected. I am an avid collector and reader of all things Jim Morrison and I have read many other books about him that I would read again, but, this book is not one of them. Val Kilmer said he used this book as his "bible" while filming the Oliver Stone movie "The Doors". I guess (to true fans and friends and people who were close to Jim) that is why this movie was not an accurate picture of The Doors and Jim Morrison. I would recommend this book only to a serious collector of all things Morrison, just to have it in their collection, but, not to someone who is looking to find out more about Jim's life, as a whole.

This, after you have read all of the other books on The Doors and on Jim...you MUST read. This is a book written by a highly intelligent groupie which Jim returned to over and over so that she would administer to him the love he was seeking.

All the other women he saw demanded a response from him which he surely could not or would not give. Judy Huddleston instinctively knew that and loved him in spite of his childish ways. In the end, she sees him in through sorrowful, lovesick eyes...as we all do.

I cannot get over how smart she is. We are right there with her every moment. She is an expert at this! Fantastic!

I read Judy Huddleston's "This Is The End....My Only Friend- Living and Dying with Jim Morrison". Even though the book is fairly interesting, after reading it I came to the conclusion that she had a lot of problems, because when she wasn't following Jim around, she was in a hospital. Also, I was disappointed that the book focused more on the demonic side of the "Lizard King" than on any intellectual side that quite a few of the other Doors/Jim Morrison books provide. I don't know if her story is true or not, but it certainly had its ups and downs. Ms. Huddleston has written a very unusual but interesting book, to say the least.