Angels Dance And Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison
by Patricia Butler

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Book Reviews of Angels Dance And Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison

Book Review: Pamela Morriosn: Tragic Juliet?
Summary: 4 Stars

The book is very well researched and many Doors contemporaries, relatives and friends are interviewed; but I felt the book slanted the Jim and Pamela "love story" to a new mythology, likening them to "Romeo and Juliet;" which Jim and Pam are definately not. The only way Jim and Pam could ever be compared to that real-life tragic couple is to give Romeo and Juliet a couple million bucks and tell them to go out get drunk every night, get stoned and act like spoiled rotten children. Then die. No, that's not Romeo and Juliet, that's Jim and Pam.

As with other Doors' biographies, Butler's book does show the utter waste of two human lives. But, gives little, if any new information on the subject of Jim Morrison's life. What I really wanted to hear was more about Pam's life after Morrison's death in 1971; her supposed drug use, speculated prostituation life-style and eventual death of a drug overdose. This is not very well covered in Butler's book.

However, I do give the book a 7 out of 10 and recommend it to other Doors fans; but read it with a ounce of disbelief as I think the book is too slanted in favor of the Jim/Pam relationship to be an unbiased and impartial voice in retelling the Morrison legacy.
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