Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

3.96 AVERAGE

fishreads's review against another edition

4.0
challenging informative medium-paced
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essdubs's review against another edition

3.75
fast-paced
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seasidefaye13's review against another edition

5.0
emotional informative fast-paced
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sbrewer71's review against another edition

4.0
A good read about the influential band of the 1990’s. The book was history of the up and eventual collapse of Nirvana due to the pain and eventual death of Kurt Cobain. The one thing that didn’t make the story great was that it felt impersonal as the writer was from Rolling Stone magazine and not a member of Nirvana.

lesser's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 44%
Jumps all over the place. Got up to the part when Dave Grohl joined the band. 

annieg4444's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

jlbartley's review against another edition

3.5
informative medium-paced

seaa's review against another edition

3.0
What a fascinating look into Nirvana and its band members.
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funeraldancer's review

4.5
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I wanted to read this version before I dig into the 2023 version cause I wanted to read a book that wasn't colored by Kurt's suicide. In that sense this book is very informative and doesn't fall prey to much of the mythologizing about the band that occured in the following years.
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danlyons76's review against another edition

4.25
challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced