Overview:
A riotous fantasy in which rock-star novelist Farren imagines Jim Morrison wandering through the shades of hell looking for a way out. Don Juan had it comparatively easy in hell. To begin with, he knew where he was and why he was there, while poor Jim can—t even remember his name. —Sometime, someplace, someone had royally flamed his memory, though he couldn’t recall where or when
Part devil, part angel, the specter of Jim Morrison has haunted America's consciousness since his premature death in 1971. His spirit seemed dark, and the graphic despair of his Lizard King persona reigned supreme in his lifetime, but Jim Morrison died with a smile on his face. Was his journey through the afterlife as tumultuous as his journey through life? This is the question Mick Farren answers in his fascinatingly complex novel based on one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic figures.
Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife picks up the story of Morrison as he hurtles through a purgatory-like afterlife in search of some way to bring his soul to peace. Along the way he finds Doc Holliday--and together they find themselves chasing the restless fire-and-brimstone evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, whose soul has broken after death into two warring halves. McPherson's sexier half becomes the object of Jim's obsession, and as the two struggle to find each other in this disordered land, their wild, careening chase through a dozen dystopiae recalls imagined worlds as diverse as Burgess's A Clockwork Orange or Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
This is a daring, hilarious romp through the landfill of millennial society. Possessed of an imagination that rivals that of any of our edgiest fantasists, steeped in the detritus and ephemera of three decades of pop culture, Mick Farren has crafted in this new novel a bizarre and compelling fantasia.
“What Mick Farren was smoking while he wrote this, I'll never know, but what I do know is that the book is so pleasingly trippy with so many allusions and cameos (such as Dylan Thomas reincarnated as a talking goat), I enjoyed every moment of it.”
”Farren's concept of the afterlife is fascinating and I do remember hearing what it was based on once (a small sect of Latter-Day Saints?) but it was interesting to consider a different notion of heaven and hell and reflect on ones own beliefs.”
“There's a certain kind of audience that this book will appeal to: those who have an appreciation for the absurd. If you can deal with Jim Morrison and Doc Holliday trapsing about the afterlife ... and 1920's Prohibition champion Aimee Semple MacPherson becoming two entities ... and Godzilla running around, being controlled by Jesus Christ ... and the Egyptian God Anubis controlling a Las Vegas-like city and having a neutron bomb. If the idea of that makes you smile in just the least little bit, the sheer insanity of this book is perfect.”
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And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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