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Summary: The Best Cobain book ever
Review: I have read about 7 or 8 books on Kurt Cobain, and this is the best one yet. It gives amazing detail and analysis. It is a must have for anyone wanting to learn about Kurt Cobain.
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Summary: Amazing!!
Review: Ok... Im going to make this short. I cant say enough about this book and the way it was written. 9 years went into it and it shows up. There is so much info in here that even the biggest Nirvana fan wouldnt know. He traces Kurts last steps very very detailed.Overall an AMAZING book!!!
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Summary: Heartbreaking
Review: This book broke my heart. I am a fan of Nirvana, but never knew too much about Kurt Cobain. It's heart wrenching to read about how sad and lost he was. How many people are that talented, and able to realize that talent and use it to become a huge success? Not many. Why that success, and the love he had coming at him from many different people, especially his daughter, wasn't enough for him to want to live, who knows? After reading this book, what struck me the most was how sweet he was, underneath all that anguish, anger and sadness, he was basically a good, sweet person. I think Cross did an excellent job of getting across all facets of Kurt: the sensitive Kurt, the 'junkie' Kurt, the business-man Kurt, the amazingly-talented-artist Kurt, as well as the pathetic Kurt. Really very well researched and written. It left me wanting to know more, like the years since his suicide, follow-ups with his family. I can't help but wonder what would have become of him had he not committed suicide in 1994?
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Summary: hmm.
Review: the in-depth look into kurt cobain's mind is interesting, but! i had to add a caveat that courtney love's involvement with this project probably contributes to the incredibly negative picture the author paints of kathleen hanna and tobi vail. (i'm saying this as a fan of their band, bikini kill, and of kathleen hanna in general.) when cross says that vail and hanna "prattled on" about feminism, he's completely denigrating the fact that both of them were seriously involved with and interested in feminism in underground music. this isn't to say that tobi vail necessarily treated kurt the way he wanted to be treated--even michael azerrad's "come as you are" makes it clear that their relationship priorities were different. but cross extends this to be an indictment of tobi vail and kathleen hanna in general, and i find this indictment suspect because of courtney love's involvement. courtney love has a history of punching and/or wanting to "[expleative] kill" (her words, spin magazine) associates of kurt cobain from the olympia scene (she punched kathleen hanna, apparently punched k records' calvin johnson, and kurt's ex-girlfriend [?] mary lou lord was the one she wanted to "kill"). so courtney love probably isn't the most reliable, objective source of information on this period of kurt's life, especially since she wasn't there.
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Summary: Secrets, lies and the whole truth.
Review: this book is brilliant, and even though courtney love had a lot to do with it, it still seems quite raw with the information. I think that this book is definetly one for any cobain fans bookshelf. Courtney was a large part in the making of this book, she asked many people to give a lot of information to the author so that he could honestly portray kurt cobain. If you dont like courtney, there is always reasons to find some falsehoods into her motives, but i think that this book was genuinly written and is honest to the bone.
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Summary: Kurt Cobain was human
Review: this book...and I believe the majority of it to be true...was in fact human. He was loving, caring, intelligent person. He did have his share of problems. This book gives you(with great detail) how these problems turned into bigger problems. There are many cool little tid bits that you learn about Kurt and Nirvana along the way.
One of the coolest things in the book is the lyrics to the unrealeased song 'You know You're right'
"things have never been swell. I have never felt so well. PAIN."
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Summary: Part Two:Charles Cross let's my brother 'Rest In Pieces'
Review: (Continued from my first review) so they belched, spat a fragement of bone, and smacked their lips, and flet kind of embarrassed for what they had done. But they accepted what they had done because it was done out of LOVE. The same with what the media had done with Kurt. They didn't feel that they were hurting him because it was done with what they thought could possibly be LOVE. CHARLES CROSS has played God. He has. For the millions out there that believe the written word are having a ball believing this crazed story. Cross has taken a famous rock icon and did a backflip and wrote what PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE. He has let people, including himself , have a mind of their own when it comes to "that Cobain story", well part of this is MY story that I have tp go to school everyday and try to explain! "Oh look, It's Nirvana's sister" I'll here down the hall. I twist. I'm sick of this. I don't know who my friends are because of people like Charles Cross. Infact, I dont even know who my family members are! My aunt Mari (Kurt's aunt as well) is the sickest person who has shared a breath of the same air on this Earth with me at the same time. She has told Charles Cross a very personal story about her very own grandfather's death that directly involves her very own fragile mother. AND MY GRANDMOTHER. She has messed the whole story up also, it might as well start where it ends it's so untrue. Mari is in a religious CULT. She is sick mentally.She is red eyed, green eyed (twoards Kurt), beyond repair, hateful, hypocritcal,insecure, and desperate. She is a PUKE. And I am simply waisting my time acting like she excists AT ALL. She doesn't love Kurt. She wishes she would have 'ate him' when he was still alive and struggeling. So now she gets out her 'knife' and chases her very own family with it. I guess we are called "left overs". She is a total dry alcoholic. Instead of bustin that beer bottle after she drinks it, she's swallowing up leftover fame and SICK CULT RELIGION, and bustin her BUM. trying to do it all at once. She's not for Kurt; she's for the fame that she thinks she can still drink up. This book is a terror, ignore it for Kurt. Thankyou sooo much for listening. This is my first time I have spoken. Because I promised myself not to excist in this case, but Charles Cross has made me, going just a step too far he has gone, and I choose to let my brother rest in PEACE, not pieces... Love always, Brieann Oconnor, Kurt;s half sister.age fifteen.
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Summary: THE KURT COBAIN BIBLE
Review: THIS IS THE BEST DARN BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!IT WILL TELL YOU ALL
ABOUT KURT'S LIFE TO THE POINT TO WHERE YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT YOU
KNEW HIM.I FEEL LIKE I KNOWN KURT BY THIS BOOK.THIS BOOK TELLS YOU EVERY THING THAT YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT KURT'S LIFE
AND HIS FAMILY.A MUST HAVE FOR KURT COBAIN FAN'S!!! IN MY OPINION,THIS IS A KURT COBAIN BIBLE!!!
AND FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT KURT WAS KILLED NEED TO READ THIS
BOOK BECAUSE THIS WILL OPEN THEIR EYES TO TRUTH THAT MANY PEOPLE
DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE!!
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Summary: Thanks to this book, i have an even greater love for Nirvana
Review: After reading this book, which i have now started for the second time, i am very very impressed with what Mr.Cross has been able to accomplish in detailing the life of Kurt Cobain and the rise to success of NIRVANA. From the other books i've read about NIRVANA and Kurt Cobain, none have painted the picture better than "Heavier Than Heaven". For all the "nirvana lovers" out there, this is a book for the true fan. If the scale was higher, it would definitely get a 10 at the least in my book. Highly Recommended!!! Thanks Mr.Cross!
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Summary: Excellent and involving, but inevitably lacking Kurt's view.
Review: Kurt Cobain grew up in a pretty ordinary family and town. I grew up in Montana, and the section of Kurt's childhood sounds like anywhere to me. His family life was also rather normal. The divorce that apparently scarred Kurt for life was no more than millions of us have gone through. Despite the "averageness" of the early years, once the band forms, the book becomes engrossing, a real "inside view" of how Nirvana came to be. Cross spoke to pretty much everyone who was connected with the band in any way, and there are many juicy bits. Once Courtney appears, the interest level goes up even more. This book gave me new respect for Courtney. Whatever else anyone says,she was clearly loyal and true to her man, the love of her life. Unfortunately, nothing could make Kurt want to live. He recognized his own self-pity, but couldn't change it. Cross' account of Kurt's final days is so intense, I snapped at anyone who came near me while I was reading it. I have known other talented, charismatic yet self-destructive people, and the writing made me feel almost like I now knew Kurt. But Cobain's own writings are so impenetrable, I still find myself wanting to know why he was the way he was, and why he had to kill himself.
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