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Summary: wow
Review: An amazing and intriging insight into the life of Kurt Cobain, a spokesperson and icon for our generation, which poses many questions and merely shows us the different evidence without forceing verdicts or opinions.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: It was a way good book! It had so many questions and evidence! I watched a show with the two journalists on it and it was really intresting. Me and many other fans still love kurt and his legacy will live on forever!!!
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: While I personally would not have given Hank Harrison as much space and authority as Halperin and Wallace have, it is the most thorough, objective and important work published to date on this extensive tragedy. I found it to be well-written and well-researched, except for minor inaccuracies, and it argues very reasonably and persuasively for the re-opening of the case. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in an objective introduction to the Cobain case, as it is free from the unreasonable apologias the media continues to make for Courtney Love.
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Summary: EXCELLENT summary of facts regarding the death of Cobain
Review: When I first heard a story that Kurt Cobain did not commit suicide but instead was murdered I found it implausible and ridiculous, not to mention sick. It must be some wacko's rantings. Everyone knows that Kurt killed himself, right? The disturbed personality, the suicide attempt in Rome, the note...After reading this book I am left feeling very disturbed that a terrible injustice has gone overlooked by today's media and society. This book first gives the story of Kurt's life, his phenomenal success and his marriage to Courtney Love. Then in a verifiable and coherent manner lays down an excellent case that Kurt's death was not the obvious suicide as it was portrayed in the media. It points out many unreported or misreported facts that dispute the cut-and-dried suicide theory. It also provides more than enough proof to seriously question the character and motives of Courtney Love. If you are at all interested in the facts about how Kurt died, and especially if you were affected personally by his words and music, I HIGHLY recommend it. The truth must come out.
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Summary: Excellent, but Who Killed Kurt?
Review: A good reference for grunge fans. Vivid details about what really happened to a hero, but it falls short of finding out whether or not it was suicide or murder. If Kurt was alive he'd be proud!
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Summary: Thought-provoking examination of the death of Kurt Cobain
Review: When the rock icon of a generation dies, media attention isinevitable. In April 1994, the death of Kurt Cobain created a tidalwave of attention. Thousands of fans mourned Cobain, the lead singer of the band Nirvana, a group often credited with pioneering the Seattle grunge scene. More than 65 young people eventually followed their hero into death, committing "copycat" suicides. Cobain's death was a sensational and strange tale that inspired passionate debates about suicide, the emptiness of the 90s generation, and the responsibilities of pop culture heroes. Cobain, who died at the age of 27, was a brilliant and creative man who led an emotionally troubled life. He was a heroin user who reportedly committed suicide, leaving a young daughter and wife behind. Days before he died he had disappeared from an L.A. drug treatment center. The book "Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon" does not answer the question posed by its title. But it does provide compelling reasons why the investigation into his death should be reopened. The book relates biographical information about Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love; the events leading up to his death; information and insights gleaned from friends, relatives and people who had been in contact with the couple; and professional opinions from experts in various fields, including pathology and graphology. Many people who knew Cobain do not believe that he killed himself. Either does Tom Grant, a private investigator hired by Courtney Love to find Cobain after he left the drug treatment center. Grant does not accept the verdict of suicide and has done everything in his power to convince the authorities to reopen the investigation into Cobain's death. Grant's involvement in the case and his crusade are explained in great detail. The address for Grant's Internet website, which receives up to one million hits a year, is listed. Compelling arguments are presented to disprove the suicide verdict, which was arrived at very quickly after Cobain's death. The medical examiner at the scene, coincidentally, was a friend of Courtney Love's. According to the expert cited in the book, Cobain could not have shot himself with a shotgun given the amount of heroin found in his body: he would have passed out immediately after receiving that amount of the drug. A musician who passed a lie detector test stating that Courtney Love had offered him several thousand dollars to kill Cobain was found dead under strange circumstances only weeks later. There were no fingerprints found on the shotgun that inflicted a wound on Cobain, and what about the so-called suicide note? For starters it does not sound like a suicide note, but rather a note declaring his intention to quit the music business. And then there are the two apparently distinct sets of handwriting on this note, which is reproduced in a photograph. The book focuses a great deal of suspicion on Courtney Love and her sometimes bizarre behavior before and after Cobain's death. In fact, Love's father is on record stating that he believes his daughter murdered her husband. Shockingly, Grant implicates Love in both the death of her husband as well as her bandmate in the group Hole, Kristen Pfaff. "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" was written by two Canadian investigative journalists, Ian Halperin and Max Wallace. Halperin and Wallaces were cowinners of the "Rolling Stone" magazine Award for Investigative Journalism. No concrete proof of the murder theory is contained within the book, although the information is well presented. "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" will definitely be of interest to Nirvana fans, and to those who like to ponder real-life mysteries. Because the death of Kurt Cobain was as tragic as it was mysterious.
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Summary: true true true!
Review: this book was great not only was it about all the possibilities of how courtney love couldhave murdered kurt but also had a biography of both which was better because you can understand where both came from and how they could have possibly been attrackted to each other. no stone is left unturned, no question left unanswered. these guys say the whole truth and can back up all their theories with real proof and evidence I recomend reading this book to almost any one who is interested in courtney love murder casses kurt cobain or dead rockstars
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Summary: Inconclusive, but you should be able to see the truth
Review: "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" was released in 1998, only four years after Cobain's death -- a relatively short amount of time. It is understandable that the evidence is not plentiful enough to make a solid conclusion. With the release of "Love and Death" (for which I am saving the fifth star) six years later comes much more evidence of the possible murder conspiracy. However, if you are just beginning to learn about the murder theory, don't just skip straight to "Love and Death" -- read this one too.
The difference between the two books is the amount of background information they provide. "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" gives a lot more information on Kurt and Courtney, the people, which could be necessary if you haven't read much on them. It also goes into some more detail on the supposed approaching of El Duce by Courtney Love, as well as the eery "coincidence" of the only police officer to investigate the case being the only SPD officer to die on or coming off of the job in eight years.
In short, the two books are very different -- "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" offers a more general look at the case, touching upon all of the evidence and even given a nice concise list at the end of one chapter. "Love and Death" focuses more upon the two most compelling pieces of evidence in support of the theory (the heroin level and the fact that the only person to talk about Kurt's suicidal tendencies was -- guess who? -- Courtney). I highly recommend both, and I also recommend looking up and looking over the essay "Dead Men Don't Pull Triggers" by Roger Lewis. It is a very scientific study of the physical impossibility of Kurt Cobain shooting himself. If you are not a medical student or a doctor, it will most likely go over your head (as it did mine) but it is worth looking at to show that no, everyone who pursues this theory is not simply a hack conspiracy theorist looking for notoriety.
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Summary: thought-provoking, balanced, well-researched, and SCARY
Review: OK, first and foremost, you're probably wondering if this book is worth reading at all, since the authors--Ian Halperin & Max Wallace--have written a sequel of sorts: "Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain."
My answer to that question is an unqualified "YES." This book is almost essential to truly appreciating "Love & Death," by seeing how far the authors have progressed in their research and reasoning. There are characters and threads that were not fully developed in this book, but offer intriguing clues and possibilities to whether a crime has in fact taken place. There's an unscrupulous police captain and an unco-operative coroner who are both mentioned in this book as hindering the case. Wallace & Halperin don't have all the evidence here in 1998 to indict these two, and they are treated fairly, if with some degree of suspicion. By 2004, however, and the publication of "Love & Death," the circumstances for these two men have changed CONSIDERABLY. Accusations are finally levied and suspicions are realized, and it's quite shocking how much their fortunes have changed (you'll have to read the new book to find out what happened). But you really need to READ THIS BOOK, to fully appreciate how finely tuned the authors' sensibilities must have been to pick up on this thread of corruption. In reading both this book and then its followup, one truly appreciates how cautious and careful the authors have been in laying out all the available evidence for BOTH SIDES of the argument: Kurt was murdered VS. Kurt committed suicide.
And despite what some reviewers claim (and despite the name of the book), this book does NOT claim that Kurt was murdered. Instead, it presents some possible suspects and motivations for murdering Kurt, and merely lays out the evidence for the reader to decide. It's judicious exploration of all aspects of the case in 1998 truly makes one better appreciate the fact that it took the authors another SIX years to become fully convinced that Kurt was murdered. Tom Grant in this book is treated with a high degree of skepticism, mostly because he refuses to reveal some of the evidence he has collected. Rest assured, some of that VERY shocking evidence is revealed in the followup, but one also comes to realize why Grant was so cautious in the first place making this book indispensible.
This book also provides a lot of more of the background story than the followup, probably because by the time of "Love & Death" the accumulation of evidence necessitated skipping a lot of the biography. If you want a good introduction to both Kurt and Courtney, this book is an excellent place to start, and certainly does a better job than the sequel in exploring the life stories of these two fascinating characters. A lot of this probably has to do with the fact that both of their troubled upbringings had to be fully explored in order to substantiate both sides of the argument, murder or suicide. By 2004, when the evidence firmly points to murder (and I mean DEFINITIVELY) there is less reason to explore some of the background stories, since the forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony has become so much more important.
Admittedly, if you only have the money, time, or inclination to read ONE book on the murder of Kurt Cobain, then you should certainly devote those resources to "Love & Death." But for those interested in the subject, then "Who Murdered Kurt Cobain?" is ideally preparatory for the chilling twists ahead.
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Summary: Want the TRUTH? read Kurts Journals!
Review: I thought that this book was quite interesting. Personally I feel that there are a lot of coincidences dealing with Kurt's death and although it could lead to foul play, these coincidences could simply be just that - coincidences. But speaking on the matter of the book itself, I thought that it was well written. Until late into the book, the novel read more of a biography of Kurt and Courtney's life rather than a book about Courtney killing Kurt. As a matter of fact - anyone who has read this book will know that it actually never does state that Courtney killed Kurt. It simply states discrepincies in evidence and personal accounts of time. I reccomend anyone interested in Kurt Cobain to read this book because it does hold a lot of interesting information whether you believe in the muder theories or not. I also reccoment the follow up to this book, "Love and Death." It was a great read as well.
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