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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
dark
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dark
emotional
reflective
sad
It’s personal journals so what do you say? He said in an interview once that it’s all in the music. Everything you need to know. At the beginning of this book of his journals are two opposing views, I’m guessing not originally written at the same time. “Don’t read my journal when I am gone”, and “when you wake up in the morning, please read my diary. Look through my things, and figure me out”.
I only just now read this because I always feel a little weird about reading anyone’s journals after they die. But at the same time I’m immensely curious. The immensely curious won out 21 years after this was published. If you read this and you know his music you will have a better understanding of him as a person but no one can really know. Just don’t buy into the conspiracy theories about his death.
I only just now read this because I always feel a little weird about reading anyone’s journals after they die. But at the same time I’m immensely curious. The immensely curious won out 21 years after this was published. If you read this and you know his music you will have a better understanding of him as a person but no one can really know. Just don’t buy into the conspiracy theories about his death.
A bit misleading, especially if you're looking for organization or extreme insight into Cobain's personality/life (you're not going to find it). The work itself seems to be an ahistorical compilation of journal entries, notes, letters, a few comics (who knew?), poetry, short stories (?), and often littered with rants about right-wing politics, the music industry, record labels, journalists, etc. The lack of chronology/more material makes sense though, especially when one considers the fact that several of Cobain's journals/writings were stolen while on the road or at other points in his travels.
Interesting, and sickening in some ways, but not something I'd read over and over again.
Interesting, and sickening in some ways, but not something I'd read over and over again.
back when i read this (or looked at it, since its just scans from his notebooks and its as cryptic as two girls fighting through MSN messenger taglines), i was a ninth-grader who wrote on my converse hi-tops and bought a cream fender strat and joined a rock band and exclusively wore black.
now i'm older and kurt cobain's legacy scares me. his life was unsettling and ironic and extremely sad. it's not iconic or really that interesting and this book is just more evidence of a sick man who nobody helped because being sick was his art.
now i'm older and kurt cobain's legacy scares me. his life was unsettling and ironic and extremely sad. it's not iconic or really that interesting and this book is just more evidence of a sick man who nobody helped because being sick was his art.
This is the mans private journal, something that should never ever have been published. I avoided reading it for years because I think it's disgusting that anyone is able too frankly but eventually my fan side gave in. I was surprised , a lot of the journal is about record deals and boring business stuff like that, so there isn't too much for a subscriber to the "cult of personality" to indulge in.
For the rest of us though, I will say this, it is heart wrenching and wildly interesting at times especially in terms of finding out more detail and truth about his struggle with drug addiction. But overall, this is someones journal, what could you really say about it. It wasn't written to be read or tell a story.
For the rest of us though, I will say this, it is heart wrenching and wildly interesting at times especially in terms of finding out more detail and truth about his struggle with drug addiction. But overall, this is someones journal, what could you really say about it. It wasn't written to be read or tell a story.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
This book is one of the most popular to be checked out in my library because it is one of the most visual collections of a celebrity that I have ever seen. Letters, lyrics, pictures and doodles are scattered throughout this book, leaving readers with the truest idea of self expression
I can't lie... I felt a smidge of guilt reading this. It isn't an autobiography... It's pictures of his actual journals. Even though once you open it it says something along the lines of don't read me but read me... You're kind of like "Okay, Kurt". Apparently he would write drafts of letters...song lyrics... There's even a recipe. Like at all times he had some type of notebook with him and he wrote every thought in it. Hence the guilty part...because it's not like I'd go to someones house and open their journal even if it was in plain sight. But it's a chance to see inside KURT COBAINS mind. So for the same reason I watch endless amounts of murder/serial killer/ whodunnit type shows ( I am fascinated by the human psyche. Just don't tell anyone) I read this and it was beautiful and sad and now it'll grace my shelves for all eternity.
I want to give this five stars because I love Nirvana so much but I can't, solely because it even exists. I had to have it, because I have nearly everything ever written about Kurt, but I can't actually bring myself to read it.