Burn Down the Night eBook Craig Kee Strete
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An autobiographical novel about the author's drug/sex/oh-wow-heavy '60s friendship with Jim Morrison of The Doors.
"You and me, they are really going to dig us when we're dead. You can't hope to arrive without exile."
—JIM MORRISON
"Burn Down the Night, and light up an era with the neon, mind-splitting sound of rock, the fast and furious sex, the drugs, pills and needles, joints and sugar cubes—life blood and lifeline of a generation that was."
—FANTASTIC FICTION
Burn Down the Night eBook Craig Kee Strete
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be part of the Rock and Roll party scene in the 60’s and 70’s? This is when Rock and Roll was just emerging and the parties were excessively wild. Filled with revels of late night parties at Venice Beach, excessive drug use . Author , Craig Kee Street , takes us into the heart of the bitch Goddess Los Angeles in what I think is his fictitious romp with Jim Morrison, perhaps before he became the lead singer for the doors.Stete captures the essence of Jim Morrison perfectly in this work. Written in first person, Craig bumps into Jim while trying to hit on some chick at a party in Venice Beach California. Jim just sort of appears speaking in rhymes an stealing Strete’s girl. The two later on wander off to the beach,drive Craig’s car to the Valley. Picking up two girls, on e fat and one pretty, they romp and head off of another party . Craig passes out in the bushes only to be awakened by a poodle . The rest of the story. Continues with summer romps and parties. In the end after a tragedy he makes a realization to change his life's
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Burn Down the Night eBook Craig Kee Strete Reviews
My mother passed away a couple of years ago. I found this book at my grandmother's house, it had been my mom's when she was a teenager. From the cover I figured it would be an uninteresting and out of date book about Jim Morrison. Boy, was I wrong. I'm glad I didn't judge this book by it's cover, and went ahead and read it. After the first two pages I was hooked. This book is about drugs, evading the law, rape, and more drugs. I wasn't able to put this book down, I finished it in under a day. Although it might not be true, it's still a fascinating look at what might have happened in the drug life in the seventies.
Although the copy I read in high school has Jim
Morrison's face on the front and the back-cover
blurb suggests that he and the protagonist are
together at every moment, this book simply features him as an interesting, annoying, odd and infrequent supporting character.
I think I great deal of Strete's poetry was lost
on me the first few times I read this, but I have
little desire to read it again. I found it compelling as a teenager, but knew at the time that I was missing something. Now that I could
appreciate it, I don't think the story is complex
enough to warrant another try.
I mainly get the impression that I never want to
be a roadie, and that I should very carefully
select the people whom I may run away from home with for a week.
If you like poetic prose and have even a slight interest in the sort of environment Morrison may have been in, you may want to pick up this book. You'll probably get more out of it than I did. However, if neither interests you, give it a miss.
It's ... okay.
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).
Craig is the main character in the book, but he mainly acts as the lens through whom we see Jim Morrison and the insane world of LA parties in the late 1960's. This book belongs on the shelf of every Doors fan.
Thank you Craig Kee Street. Love it.
Eloquently narrated and furiously imaginative ; this book is a school on the darkest side of rock and roll.
I'm not a scholar or anything, but I really liked this book. I admit that I got sucked into it, probably because the main character (the narrator) reminded me of a friend of mine. And although the events that transpire in the book are certainly Hollywood-rockstar-esque, they just seemed believable. It had a pretty predictable ending but I liked it all the same. If I wrote it, I would've ended it the same way.
As a child who loved the Doors and Morrison, I read almost everything about them. While this isn't a true story it was still one of my favorite books as a youth. The writer sets the scenes and people up in a way that makes you feel like you are right there with Craig and Jim. Lost my copy, and happy that I was able to buy one years later. I re-read the book as an adult, and it still held up some weight for me. It was a 5 for 5 book as a teenager, and a 3 for 5 book as an adult so I gave it 4 stars.
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be part of the Rock and Roll party scene in the 60’s and 70’s? This is when Rock and Roll was just emerging and the parties were excessively wild. Filled with revels of late night parties at Venice Beach, excessive drug use . Author , Craig Kee Street , takes us into the heart of the bitch Goddess Los Angeles in what I think is his fictitious romp with Jim Morrison, perhaps before he became the lead singer for the doors.
Stete captures the essence of Jim Morrison perfectly in this work. Written in first person, Craig bumps into Jim while trying to hit on some chick at a party in Venice Beach California. Jim just sort of appears speaking in rhymes an stealing Strete’s girl. The two later on wander off to the beach,drive Craig’s car to the Valley. Picking up two girls, on e fat and one pretty, they romp and head off of another party . Craig passes out in the bushes only to be awakened by a poodle . The rest of the story. Continues with summer romps and parties. In the end after a tragedy he makes a realization to change his life's
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