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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
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I don't know where to start with this book. Hearing about Kurt Cobain's troubled childhood, rise to fame, and struggles with depression and addiction is absolutely heartbreaking.
Heavier Than Heaven had me hooked all the way through, and it has impacted me on another level. I have always had a love for Nirvana, and now that I have a deeper understanding of each song, I love them even more.
I absolutely loved this book, up until the last couple of chapters. The way the author discusses Cobain's death actually made me feel pretty uncomfortable. Charles R. Ross talks as though he were there watching, with a detailed encounter of Cobain's last moments. Something no one will ever fully know or understand, and that doesn't sit right with me.
If his death had been written speculatively then maybe I would have given it a much higher rating. Hell, up until that point it was 5 stars. But it wasn't written speculatively. It was written with so much depth that I then started to question the rest of the book. His last days are written like a fiction novel, which I think is very unfair. For this reason I've had to rate this one much lower than I would have liked.
It's better to burn out than fade away
Heavier Than Heaven had me hooked all the way through, and it has impacted me on another level. I have always had a love for Nirvana, and now that I have a deeper understanding of each song, I love them even more.
I absolutely loved this book, up until the last couple of chapters. The way the author discusses Cobain's death actually made me feel pretty uncomfortable. Charles R. Ross talks as though he were there watching, with a detailed encounter of Cobain's last moments. Something no one will ever fully know or understand, and that doesn't sit right with me.
If his death had been written speculatively then maybe I would have given it a much higher rating. Hell, up until that point it was 5 stars. But it wasn't written speculatively. It was written with so much depth that I then started to question the rest of the book. His last days are written like a fiction novel, which I think is very unfair. For this reason I've had to rate this one much lower than I would have liked.
It's better to burn out than fade away
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Having grown up and considering myself a child of the 1990s, Nirvana was a staple my youth. With that came the legend and myth that was Kurt Cobain. We all knew he had taken his own life at young age, but not many of us truly knew much about the man. What was fact and what was fabrication. So that reason is why ‘Heavier Than Heaven’ had been on my radar for a while now.
This book was very well put together. So many biographies can feel as if the writer is taking liberties or injecting their own personal views on the subject into the text, but this didn’t feel that way for most of this book. The very notable exception to this being that the author presumed to know details of the final minutes of Cobain’s life; something no one but Cobain could possibly know. Other than that, this book was very well researched!
Kurt Cobain, despite his place in rock immortality, is just like every one of us. A human being. He lived a hard life and dealt with numerous demons. This book shows us the human side of Cobain, from his addiction to his struggle with fame. This doesn’t feel like a book about a person taking the music world by storm. This feels like a book about a human being with human struggles.
I can’t recommend this book enough to fans of 90s grunge. Or music in general. A must-read for sure!
This book was very well put together. So many biographies can feel as if the writer is taking liberties or injecting their own personal views on the subject into the text, but this didn’t feel that way for most of this book. The very notable exception to this being that the author presumed to know details of the final minutes of Cobain’s life; something no one but Cobain could possibly know. Other than that, this book was very well researched!
Kurt Cobain, despite his place in rock immortality, is just like every one of us. A human being. He lived a hard life and dealt with numerous demons. This book shows us the human side of Cobain, from his addiction to his struggle with fame. This doesn’t feel like a book about a person taking the music world by storm. This feels like a book about a human being with human struggles.
I can’t recommend this book enough to fans of 90s grunge. Or music in general. A must-read for sure!
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
informative
sad
slow-paced
challenging
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informative
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal cruelty, Racial slurs
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