Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors

John Densmore. Delta, $17 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-385-30447-4

Doors drummer Densmore, who had a love-hate relationship with lead singer Morrison, sympathetically chronicles the self-destructive Lizard King's rise and fall. ``Densmore's detailed account . . . is often narrated in a glib style'' but remains ``indispensable for fans of one of rock music's most flamboyant and controversial groups,'' said PW . Photos. (Oct.)

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