COURTNEY LOVE: THE REAL STORY

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Summary: Insightful Look Into the Life of A Modern Day Heroine.
Review: Courtney Love is an amazing woman who, has and always will, triumph above strife and misunderstanding. She is courageous, innovative, and truly worthy of idolization. I am glad to see a biography such as this, that does justice to the goddess, Ms. Love

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Summary: the best coutrny love bio by far
Review: i luv this book. i have so much of a higher opion of clove now to she how far shes come form the life shes had. i could not put his book down its just such a discriptive story of her life and what shes gone thorgh and it has great pictures of her as a kid and her with frances and kurt. i recomend it highly to any hole ar clove fan

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Summary: Needed more passion.
Review: The book was OK. I think it was well written but needed more details. It reflected no sense of what real fans would want to know. I think people want details of CL's thoughts, her relationship with Curt, her feelings about different situations, what Curt was like, and their feelings of the swirl of attention around them. The book needed more information and needed to be written with a passion. No offense to Brite whom I heard is a great fiction author.

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Summary: Thanks for the insomniac aid.
Review: Love Poppy, but this book just isn't up to par. How she can make Courtney Love dull, I don't know -- but she seems to suffer from writer's block in this boring biography. A huge disappointment!

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Summary: I LOVE COURTNEY BUT POPPY BRITE?
Review: The biographer wasn't up to there subject. Where is Crispin Glover when you need him? May Courtney rock on!

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Summary: Fuzzy collage
Review: Having never read any of Poppy Z. Brite's fiction, I can only hope it is better than the saccharine prose she dishes out in this biography. I though Virginia Andrews had the copyright on the phrase "their eyes met and locked" (used to describe Courtney and Kurt's bonding moment). I can't help enjoying this book for the insights it gives on Love's larger-than-life personality, but the writing is so sloppy it frequently distracts from the content. Brite often repeats the same point, and in Chapter Twelve there is no clue as to where events are happening. LA, Seattle? She fails to substantiate most of her anecdotes, rarely quotes friends and relies a lot on clippings from magazines and newspapers. The whole thing comes off as a fuzzy collage. Maybe Poppy should lay off the pot next time she attempts factual writing...

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Summary: Very good, even for a different side of Poppy.
Review: I got the book as a Poppy fan, and a little bit of a Hole fan. I loved the bio, and usually I have a hard time choking those down! It was interesting and well-written, but what else do you expect from Poppy Z Brite? And when I was done I became so much more of a Hole and Love fan.

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Summary: I have more respect now
Review: Before I started this book I loved Courtney and her band Hole......but now I have a new found respect for her. She has been through everything and has lived through it. The only thing that was not too good was it was short.

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Summary: Too Lite, Boring Subject, Not Worthy of the Author
Review: I bought this book as a fan of the author, Poppy Z. Brite; and was really left to wonder how she let herself get into such a meaningless, superficial project. Fans of Courtney Love may have a different opinion of this book; but as a Z. Brite fan, I found it to be lacking in any depth of information. Or maybe there just ain't that much interesting stuff to write about Courtney Love?Z. Brite describes her first meeting with Love; after Love stalks her out, (probably with the intent of finding an author with punky credibility to eventually scribe her bio?). She describes their first meeting, when they go out to dinner. I get the impression that Z. Brite is confounded about why she is spending any time with Love, having never met her before. Is it just because Love is a celebrity, and thus worthy of hanging out with? I wonder if Z. Brite would react to an anonymous fan, who managed to get her home phone number, in the same way? To be fair, I wonder if any of us anonymous readers would reject a meeting from a famous celebrity, even if we had zero interest in them?Poppy should stick to horror novels, not horrible celebrity bios. I hope this is the last time out, for Z. Brite, in the biography scene; or at least she should write about someone that she is passionately interested in, to detail and dissect their public and private motivations, dreams and nightmares; not just take a freaking memo from Courtney to tell all the masses about her royal HIGHness.-Bryan LeedDayton, Ohio, USA

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Summary: The best book about Courtney Love!
Review: For a Hole fan, this book is great! It really gives you an in-depth feel of Courtney's whole life, including all the in-between parts that people have always been too scared to talk about. Read the book!