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Burn Down the Night
by Craig Kee Strete
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Warner Books (1982-05)
ISBN: 0446370711
EAN: 9780446370714
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 283 pages
SKU: BX005-080521003
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Clean but worn cover, has a hole punch top right corner. Gently read, light creasing to spine. Pgs crisp, flat, tight, unmarked.
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Customer Reviews
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Facinating Autobiographical Read...
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-02-09
Burn Down the Night was an interesting yet at times funny and disturbing book. Although I read this book when I was in high school for pleasure I can still remember Jim Morrison's so-called escapades and the intense partying that takes place in this fictional work. Strete's writing style is exceptional and keeps you truning the page. Quick and easy reading even for a high school student who dislikes reading!!!
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Actually an excellent book...
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-04-02
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Just don't be fooled by the association with Jim Morrison; although it ostensibly conveys the "spirit" of Jim Morrison, the book is fictional."Burn Down The Night" is a fictionalized account of a homeless teenager in the heady days of the mid to late 1960s, and his life doing drugs and traveling as a roadie with a rock group (after accidentally committing a murder in the course of a robbery, the group takes him in). The main character bumps into Jim Morrison at a party, and they start hanging together and acting crazy. Sounds silly, but it's all in the writing style; Strete is wonderfully poetic and humorous, and the story moves with the easy flow of a 1960's friday night keg party. Very depressing in parts, very funny in others, it's a fast and easy read with a high re-readability factor. It's kind of sad to see books like this out of print these days -- I suppose people think it glamorizes the drugging/partying lifestyle, and in a way it does. Yet Strete's talent as a writer and poet cannot be denied. The trouble is that there's no clear target audience for a book of this nature. If you bump into a copy of this book somewhere and appreciate quirky titles lacking in modern market appeal, give it a shot. I've got a copy of it myself, and it's one of those personally valued books I'd never sell or give away (along with "Auschwitz," "This Perfect Day" and other OOP but fascinating reads).
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fast and intense
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-08-21
A non-traditional book in a hight tempo. It showes an other side of the Jim Morrison most people know. The story takes place in the time before Jim was into the musicbusiness, and more into poetry (and his theatrical thoughts). It gives you an idea of the dramatical way of living he loved. (After all, we only have an image of who he was, but who was he for real?)
Easy reading, once you pick it up, you can't stop
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oh puhleeeeze
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-02-07
1 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I'm sure that by using Jim Morrison as one of the main characters helped to boost the sales of this piece of tacky pulp fiction more than just a little.
I feel sorry for the reviewer who actually thought that it was a true story.
There are so many good factual books out there about Jim, or the 60's.
Spend your hard earned dosh on one of those instead.
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Read this one
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-08-18
3 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Without doubt this is the most insightful Jim Morrison biography in print. The authors portray Morrison unlike any of the other writers who have attempted to tackle the subject. The narrative is intertwined with fragments of Morrison's own poetry, which illustrates how life affected him, and helps unlock the mysteries hidden in the verse. The authors don't get caught up in their own egos like Densmore, Manzarek, and Sugerman did -- they show a real person, a poet, suffocating in his own fame and the persona he created. If you ever want to know how this artist suffered, this is the book for you.
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