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Summary: Exquisite!!!
Review: I've read this book...maybe 4 times in the year I've had it. It's and easy read, only in the sense of no big huge un-understanable words. I've read every Courtney bio I could snatch up and read. All of which were great. No much repetivness. Always good to learn new things about an amazing woman.
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Summary: An Excellent Book!!
Review: If your a COURTNEY LOVEer, this is an excellent book to get familiar with her whole past. It tells of her early romances, drugs, her bouts with the press, and her child hood just to name a few. It tells you all this without making you feel too nosy, and it's definately a good read. I've read it at least 3 times and I'm still not tired of it. So I just want to say, read it because it's worth your money and a "HOLE" lot more.
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Summary: A Hole fan's take on this book
Review: Melissa Rossi's painfully honest, warts-and-all portrayal of the infamous rock goddess Courtney Love is surprisingly well written and researched. Ms. Rossi even goes into the details of the year and the day Courtney Love entered this world. Her writing and sentence structure is beautiful, descriptive and lyrical. Take for example this line (no spoilers here): "... the high priestess of rock and roll ... simultaneously one with headspinner Linda Blair and Glinda the Good ... the Dark Angel followed by tragedy, the Drama Queen who lived life like a movie, the Black Widow unable to find a new boyfriend, the Wicket Witch of the Northwest who ranted about the Seattle drug scene while admitting to her own occasional heroin use, the media victim forever calling attention to herself." However, one thing that does mar this book is although Ms. Rossi claims that she likes Courtney Love "every other day", it seems she's written the bulk of the pages on those off days. The beginning chapter is nearly enough to turn the most inveterate Courtney lover against the singer with its graphic, uncompromising and at times almost vicious account/dissection of Love's antics on tour. The times when she referred to Love in her pre-surgery days as a "dumpling" and a "sack of flour" get annoying after a while, as well as her overly sympathetic portrayals of Courtney's various enemies, especially Mary Lou Lord. Love is no saint, but I doubt it any of them are paragons of virtue either. Beyond that chapter, "Queen of Noise" takes you on an ultimately compelling journey that is alternately horrifying and fascinating through Love's world: from an unhappy child living with her hippie mom in a Eugene, Oregon commune to the rock star she is today. It charts her path through juvenile delinquency, sleazy strip clubs, drug addiction, failed affairs, a promising movie career starting with "Sid and Nancy" that crashed into an all time low for her, her tempestuous and ill-fated romance with Kurt Cobain and the birth of her child in a whirlwind of controversy. However, at the end, Rossi sums it up with her assessment of Love that I wholeheartedly agree with: glowing admiration at this amazing and talented woman's stunning resilience, inner strength and determination. As Rossi says in a foreword: "Courtney is a one word contradiction."
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Summary: A Hole fan's take on this book
Review: Melissa Rossi's painfully honest, warts-and-all portrayal of the infamous rock goddess Courtney Love is surprisingly well written and researched. Ms. Rossi even goes into the details of the year and the day Courtney Love entered this world. Her writing and sentence structure is beautiful, descriptive and lyrical. Take for example this line (no spoilers here): "... the high priestess of rock and roll ... simultaneously one with headspinner Linda Blair and Glinda the Good ... the Dark Angel followed by tragedy, the Drama Queen who lived life like a movie, the Black Widow unable to find a new boyfriend, the Wicket Witch of the Northwest who ranted about the Seattle drug scene while admitting to her own occasional heroin use, the media victim forever calling attention to herself." However, one thing that does mar this book is although Ms. Rossi claims that she likes Courtney Love "every other day", it seems she's written the bulk of the pages on those off days. The beginning chapter is nearly enough to turn the most inveterate Courtney lover against the singer with its graphic, uncompromising and at times almost vicious account/dissection of Love's antics on tour. The times when she referred to Love in her pre-surgery days as a "dumpling" and a "sack of flour" get annoying after a while, as well as her overly sympathetic portrayals of Courtney's various enemies, especially Mary Lou Lord. Love is no saint, but I doubt it any of them are paragons of virtue either. Beyond that chapter, "Queen of Noise" takes you on an ultimately compelling journey that is alternately horrifying and fascinating through Love's world: from an unhappy child living with her hippie mom in a Eugene, Oregon commune to the rock star she is today. It charts her path through juvenile delinquency, sleazy strip clubs, drug addiction, failed affairs, a promising movie career starting with "Sid and Nancy" that crashed into an all time low for her, her tempestuous and ill-fated romance with Kurt Cobain and the birth of her child in a whirlwind of controversy. However, at the end, Rossi sums it up with her assessment of Love that I wholeheartedly agree with: glowing admiration at this amazing and talented woman's stunning resilience, inner strength and determination. As Rossi says in a foreword: "Courtney is a one word contradiction."
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Summary: Profile of a tenacious woman.
Review: No matter how you feel about Courtney Love, you have to admire her for clawing her way to superstardom after enduring nightmarish things like reform schools, family problems, dysfunctional relationships, etc. This book gave me a new perspective of her; until I read it, all I knew about her was from the biased opinions of COME AS YOU ARE and HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN. Anyone who reads this book will know, and hopefully understand, her much better. However crass she is wont to be, the woman is a tenacious survivor who doesn't let anyone put her down. The book lost me toward the end. It just got too happy and convenient in the last chapters, which is why i didn't read them.
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Summary: Queen of Noise, Courtney ROX!
Review: OK, Hi. This book was pretty good,in general. I Luv Courtney, she is one of the coolest chicks ever, and since sometimes the stories from her past can get distorted and stuff, so really it was good. Some of the Nirvana info was wrong though...maybe it wasn't this book, but I think it said "Polly" was about rape which it isn't.
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Summary: What a horrible collection of gossip. . .
Review: The author claims to have respect for Courtney's achievements, but every page of this book drips with scorn. At one point she wastes an entire page reviewing Ms. Love's appearance in a derogatory manner, only to report on Ms. Love's plastic surgery later in the book with even more scorn. Lady, make up your mind. At the beginning of the book she reports on her one-time co-author's scheming to make money off of Courtney's private thoughts, and then later describes said co-author's relationship with Courtney purely from his point of view, despite the fact that he is willing to say or do anything for the sake of publicity. The good parts: Nothing, really. Read the book by Poppy Z. Brite, if you want good.
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Summary: i really enjoyed this book and i also feel in love w/ it!
Review: There were many intersting facts about courtney. I realized many facts about her and her band that i thought were untrue.I really understood were she was coming from, and what she has gone through.If only there were more people like her then it would make the world a better place. I admire Courtney from afar since i'm just a fan. I'd really love to meet her or see her from far away at a concert.
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Summary: Interesting, but not very accurate
Review: This book is an entertaining, fast read, but judging from the factual errors that litter the pages, it's questionable as a reliable source of Courtney-lore, and should probably be seen as "historical fiction" at best. The book is not "anti-Courtney", per se, but it does give an astonishing amount of space to Rozz Rezabek, the whining former boyfriend whose claim to fame is saying that Courtney destroyed his career in the hatchetjob "documentary" "Kurt and Courtney". At some points it seems that it should be titled "Rozz Rezabek: King of Crybabies" instead. There aren't any interviews with people who are currently close to Courtney. Compared to Poppy Z. Brite's very detailed and beautifully writen bio, this one is very low-end.
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Summary: fantastic book
Review: this book is fantastic. whenever i put it down, it was by force. melissa rossi did a great job writing it, telling itlike it is, showing the good and bad sides of everything, and its a great read. <3
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