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Джим Моррисон после смерти
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.
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.
608 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
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About the author
Mick Farren
67 books81 followersFarren was the singer with the proto-punk English band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. In 1970 he released the solo album Mona – The Carnivorous Circus which also featured Steve Peregrin Took, John Gustafson and Paul Buckmaster, before leaving the music business to concentrate on his writing.
In the mid-1970s, he briefly returned to music releasing the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow NME journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.
He has sporadically returned to music, collaborating with Wayne Kramer on Who Shot You Dutch? and Death Tongue, Jack Lancaster on The Deathray Tapes and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums Eating Jello With a Heated Fork and Dr. Crow.
Aside from his own work, he has provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He has collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead. With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album Death in a Guitar Afternoon. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" in the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.
In the early 1970s he contributed to the UK Underground press such as the International Times, also establishing Nasty Tales which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He went on to write for the main stream New Musical Express, where he wrote the article The Titanic Sails At Dawn, an analysis of what he saw as the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music which described the conditions that subsequently gave rise to punk.
To date he has written 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence. His prophetic 1989 novel The Armageddon Crazy deals with a post-2000 United States which is dominated by fundamentalists who dismantle the Constitution.
Farren has written 11 works of non-fiction, a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as The Black Leather Jacket) and a plethora of poetry.
Since 2003, he has been a columnist for the weekly Los Angeles CityBeat.
Farren died at the age of 69 in 2013, after collapsing onstage while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London.
In the mid-1970s, he briefly returned to music releasing the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow NME journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.
He has sporadically returned to music, collaborating with Wayne Kramer on Who Shot You Dutch? and Death Tongue, Jack Lancaster on The Deathray Tapes and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums Eating Jello With a Heated Fork and Dr. Crow.
Aside from his own work, he has provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He has collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead. With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album Death in a Guitar Afternoon. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" in the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.
In the early 1970s he contributed to the UK Underground press such as the International Times, also establishing Nasty Tales which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He went on to write for the main stream New Musical Express, where he wrote the article The Titanic Sails At Dawn, an analysis of what he saw as the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music which described the conditions that subsequently gave rise to punk.
To date he has written 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence. His prophetic 1989 novel The Armageddon Crazy deals with a post-2000 United States which is dominated by fundamentalists who dismantle the Constitution.
Farren has written 11 works of non-fiction, a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as The Black Leather Jacket) and a plethora of poetry.
Since 2003, he has been a columnist for the weekly Los Angeles CityBeat.
Farren died at the age of 69 in 2013, after collapsing onstage while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London.
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December 10, 2021
Jim Morrison demanded to light his fire and Mick Farren goes no further than to make him wallow in the mire…
Mick Farren betrayed my expectations as well – Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife is rather a delirium tremens than a fantasy of sweet hereafter. Mick Farren is but a speculator using Jim Morrison’s fame, or should I say notoriety, to sell his dubious and corny commodities at profit.
This dump isn’t a place for those who couldn’t get out alive.
Animee McPherson stood on the terrace and stared balefully across the landscape of Heaven. For perhaps the two millionth time since her death, her rage at the manner in which God had betrayed her boiled to one of its cyclical peaks. How dare He, if indeed He existed at all, treat her with such unconscionable treachery? She had done so much on His behalf. She had avoided temptations, bypassed indulgences, forgone the pleasures of the flesh. She had sacrificed to the maximum in His name and, from her perspective, He had cynically betrayed her. Her entire life had hinged on a single belief in which she had placed absolute trust. He had promised a Heaven when she died. That He then so totally reneged on the deal transcended the criminal and took the burden of guilt to a new level of divine iniquity. Aimee McPherson had arrived in the Afterlife only to discover that, if she wanted a Heaven, she was expected to build it herself. God Himself had failed to put in even the most cursory manifestation, and she had begun to doubt that He actually existed at all.
Mick Farren betrayed my expectations as well – Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife is rather a delirium tremens than a fantasy of sweet hereafter. Mick Farren is but a speculator using Jim Morrison’s fame, or should I say notoriety, to sell his dubious and corny commodities at profit.
This dump isn’t a place for those who couldn’t get out alive.
January 16, 2008
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 ... yeah, if the idea of that makes you smile in just the least little bit, the sheer insanity of this book is perfect. Think if "Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy" was filled with famous people, raunchy sex and a copious amount of religious-driven insanity, and you have a glimpse of JMAITA.
September 25, 2013
A Surrealistic Huck Finn
I know I’m a bit behind on this one, but with the recent death of Mick Farren (July 2013) brought his book Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife back to my attention. I discovered a funny entertaining story that you can never tell which way it’s going to turn.
It won’t do any good to give a synopsis of the plot because it might seem ridiculous upon description, and anyway, it would pale compared to the writing. However, if you’re looking for some guideposts to Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife it’s like a surreal Huck Finn or a psychedelic Dante’s Inferno (hell has gone to capitalism!). The cast of characters in the colorful afterlife of Jim Morrison include Doc Holliday, Aimee Semple McPherson, Moses, Godzilla and Jesus.
Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife offers no insights into Jim Morrison, it doesn’t even try (except for Farren’s belief Jim Morrison was a junkie). No insights into life or death, except possibly that death is what you make of it, you can be a god, gunslinger, monster, savior, or Jim Morrison just as long as you don’t piss off the real gods.
If Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife were a movie it would be a popcorn movie. It’s one that can be counted on to give you a couple pleasant afternoons of carefree reading.
I know I’m a bit behind on this one, but with the recent death of Mick Farren (July 2013) brought his book Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife back to my attention. I discovered a funny entertaining story that you can never tell which way it’s going to turn.
It won’t do any good to give a synopsis of the plot because it might seem ridiculous upon description, and anyway, it would pale compared to the writing. However, if you’re looking for some guideposts to Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife it’s like a surreal Huck Finn or a psychedelic Dante’s Inferno (hell has gone to capitalism!). The cast of characters in the colorful afterlife of Jim Morrison include Doc Holliday, Aimee Semple McPherson, Moses, Godzilla and Jesus.
Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife offers no insights into Jim Morrison, it doesn’t even try (except for Farren’s belief Jim Morrison was a junkie). No insights into life or death, except possibly that death is what you make of it, you can be a god, gunslinger, monster, savior, or Jim Morrison just as long as you don’t piss off the real gods.
If Jim Morrison’s Adventures in the Afterlife were a movie it would be a popcorn movie. It’s one that can be counted on to give you a couple pleasant afternoons of carefree reading.
February 6, 2023
This sat in my TBR pile for the longest, and it proves never judge a book by its cover. This was an adventure and accurately described as A Clockwork Orange meets Fantasia it was an adventure I didn’t want to end. It’s not for everyone and you definitely need to be able to laugh about religion definitely give this one a chance
August 20, 2017
A psychedelic Odyssean romp through an alternative afterlife. Essentially, people create their own afterlife, but most seem to live out their darkest fears and paradoxes, while a few create their own afterlife mini-universes. Into this steps Morrison and a few companions including Doc Holliday, who find themselves on a mission from the gods (mostly the voodoo pantheon). The gods are concerned about the growing number of humans and their influence in the afterlife. After helping (and meeting a rather cool God!) out Morrison is rewarded with a happy ever after.
A serious read, loads of fun. The late Farren could write.
A serious read, loads of fun. The late Farren could write.
May 17, 2011
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.
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.
July 21, 2014
I desperately wanted to like this book. Everything was there - a good story, crazy characters, and a ton of plot twists.
The one thing that was missing was good writing. The prose in this book is so bad I have used it in writing classes as a manual of what not to do.
The one thing that was missing was good writing. The prose in this book is so bad I have used it in writing classes as a manual of what not to do.
November 1, 2009
Ended up being a tougher slog than I thought it would be. The title was quite promising and it was interesting at first, but then it started to drag and I had to abandon it.
December 11, 2020
Reason for my 1-star review: while the book was well-written and pacy enough, the story didn't hang together well enough for my liking. I finished reading the book, but it was a struggle. Not the worst book I've ever read though (that is a two-way fight between 2666 and Moby Dick).
December 21, 2017
I love Mick Farren but this book was acid fuelled intelligentsia self indulgence.
Save this one until last and read the others which are so wonderful.
Save this one until last and read the others which are so wonderful.
February 7, 2019
Slightly messy plot, but the ending was tied up quite neatly and therefore I'm pleased. I'll have to give it another read at some point.
April 18, 2023
Ridiculous.
October 1, 2007
I loved this book, it was real out there. some folks I've recommended it to have found it to be a good sleeping pill.
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February 9, 2008trippy and fun.
June 8, 2008
I Love this book!
November 8, 2008
Very trippy.
August 24, 2011
One of the best descriptions of "Heaven" I've ever read.
September 8, 2011
Бесконечная книга. Интересно, почему автор ограничился только 600 страницами. Можно ж было ещё писать и писать с таким полётом фантазии. И вместе Моррисона ставить любого рок-н-ролльщика.
August 11, 2015
A fun metaphysical romp set in a plastic afterlife partially but not entirely shaped by its inhabitants. Fun with rock n roll and debauchery. Michael Moorcock is a touch point.
February 5, 2021
I’m reading this again and enjoying the writing immensely.
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