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"A memoir of a tempestuous affair between a young art student and a tortured rock god. Huddleston (Creative Writing and Integrated Arts/California State Univ., Monterey Bay; This Is the End, My Only Friend: Living and Dying with Jim Morrison, 1991) returns to the subject of her first book: her intimate relationship with the Doors' singer and leader. The perspective of 40 years since Morrison's death has stripped the author of some of her delusions of youth. Still, apparently relying on diaries from the era, she captures the fresh confusion of emotions she felt each time her path crossed his during their four-year relationship… If there's an added value to the book for Doors fans, it may lie in the author's vivid portrait of the mercurial Morrison, whose persona could metamorphose from that of a vulnerable little boy to a sexual sadist in a matter of seconds…Best read as an antidote to the usual Morrison hagiographies by adoring critics." –– KIRKUS REVIEW
"A poignant true story about a unique love affair, intimately told and wonderfully written, involving the legendary Jim Morrison." —JOHN RECHY, author of City of Night
"Judy Huddleston's dreamy, provocative memoir is about the emptiness and desperation so many of us feel when we're young. It's about that universal desire for meaning, for the world to be more whole and colorful than it ever manages to be, and how Huddleston wrapped all that desire and hope into this one, equally troubled and desperate man: Jim Morrison." —KERRY COHEN, author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
"Jim Morrison's life is well documented, but Love Him Madly delves into the profound personal cost of standing too close to such an incandescent and unpredictable flame. . . . Huddleston's urgent and compelling prose plunge the reader inside the maelstrom of late-1960s L.A. and that beautiful, self-destructive genius." —SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN, author of Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
"Compelling reading. It was really difficult to put down this book as the story of fragile obsession unfolded." —PATTIE BOYD, author of Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me