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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
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this was so painful to read. it was terribly written; the author writes it like a novel, taking wild liberties with what kurt thinks all throughout the book, especially the day he died. half of this isn't even factual, so much of it is not substantiated--it's just a mess. i think it's worth reading for a kurt or nirvana fan to get tiny shreds of factual information and then piece things together from there but, other than that, this is just garbage.
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I know that this book came out ages ago, but it wasn't really on my radar until recently. I read a lot of memoirs and biographies, and I'm starting to read a few about musicians that I've had laying around or on hold. This one came up so I snagged it, really interested in reading about the life of Kurt Cobain. I was young when he died, but I can remember the impact that Nirvana and their music had on the masses in the late 80s and early 90s. Grunge was becoming a thing, we all wore flannel, and we all sang along to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots whenever we heard them come on. It was quite a time for music, and so I thought I would really love this. Especially since it has such outstanding ratings
I got into it, learning things I never really knew about Kurt and his childhood. Then, after awhile, things felt a bit draggy. I'm not saying that the details of his life weren't important, but some things could have been excluded for the sake of interesting reading and taking up space on the page.
Then, THEN, this book really lost me toward the end. When Charles R. Cross decided to take liberties with Kurt's finally hours, minutes, seconds on this earth I got pretty angry. There's no way this man, this writer, knows exactly what Kurt did or thought in his last hours on this earth. Nobody knows that. Kurt was alone, and there's just no way to know what was going on, the motions he went through, or anything he might have thought. There was likely no rationality, no making sense of anything, so just come on. You can't use artistic license with something that important in a damn biography of someones actual life which, up to that point, had all been backed up by personal eyewitness accounts or other documentation.
So yeah. Three stars because that just sort of ruined the whole damn thing.
I got into it, learning things I never really knew about Kurt and his childhood. Then, after awhile, things felt a bit draggy. I'm not saying that the details of his life weren't important, but some things could have been excluded for the sake of interesting reading and taking up space on the page.
Then, THEN, this book really lost me toward the end. When Charles R. Cross decided to take liberties with Kurt's finally hours, minutes, seconds on this earth I got pretty angry. There's no way this man, this writer, knows exactly what Kurt did or thought in his last hours on this earth. Nobody knows that. Kurt was alone, and there's just no way to know what was going on, the motions he went through, or anything he might have thought. There was likely no rationality, no making sense of anything, so just come on. You can't use artistic license with something that important in a damn biography of someones actual life which, up to that point, had all been backed up by personal eyewitness accounts or other documentation.
So yeah. Three stars because that just sort of ruined the whole damn thing.
I loved this book, honestly. However, I rated it 3 out of 5 stars because, like many others have said, I feel like Charles R. Cross took a creative hand when it came to describing Kurt's suicide. No one that we know of was there, so most likely didn't go down in the way described in the book. I do like how the author pointed out many fabrications that Kurt made up. It really shows that he did fabricate topics that came up in interviews. Over all, I love this book, but there are a few things that made it less notable.
I wanted to give this 4 stars but just couldn't. I have always been a fan of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain but this book shattered much of the mystique surrounding Cobain as a person and I find myself disappointed. Still it is such a tragedy to lose such an immense talent in the way he was lost.
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