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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
There is some awful stuff contained within this book. Readable depsite being total dross at points.
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
This book was well written and full of detailed accounts. So much detail in fact that at times I just wanted to skip sections. The last 20 pages are riveting. I did not enjoy the author's guess as to what Kurt did in his last few moments. Nobody was there to know for sure. It was a good guess and made the story complete, if anything.
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Less bombshells and more sad realizations in this book.
I've been devouring a lot of information about Kurt lately, and no matter how badly I wish that he was still around, making music...the less it seems that could have ever happened, no matter what.
If it weren't for this event he would not have been a star, if it weren't for that event he wouldn't have been a heroin addict, if it weren't for ALL these events, he would not have been so profoundly, emotionally ill-equipped for the level of fame that hit him...at the same time he became a father.
But it took all those things to make him the person who made the music he did.
A happier childhood would have led to a different musical path - so he might still be alive, but would he still have turned out a song like 'Something in the Way'? I personally don't think so.
While I disagree with his choice (as a person who has loved a friend who felt that a bullet to the head was the only way out - I cannot and will not embrace it, obviously), I think about what would have happened if he had not died the way he did.
This is not to be inflammatory - although I know how it sounds - but he said what he felt, he said what he meant, he knew what he wanted, and he followed through on it. Because of that, he is not some disingenuous douchey rock star, who says he doesn't want fame but no one believes him. I cannot even imagine a middle-aged Kurt Cobain, and it's not for lack of trying.
I read this book and wanted to find some place, some crossroads where he could still have been the same, but happier. Different. It doesn't exist. We are not, as he assumed, better off with him gone, but you can't help feel that HE is.
I know this is less review and more life-commentary, but the truth is that if you are going to read this book, you know how it ends and you might be wanting to get a better sense of WHY and/or looking for answers for yourself, like I was.
I was not entirely pleased with them, but ultimately satisfied.
I don't expect you to understand that.
This is a very thorough, seemingly unbiased picture of Kurt - from birth all the way to the end.
If you loved him & his music and feel a sense of loss whenever you listen to it, this deserves your attention.
He should be remembered as a whole, not just for his last, selfish act on this planet.
I've been devouring a lot of information about Kurt lately, and no matter how badly I wish that he was still around, making music...the less it seems that could have ever happened, no matter what.
If it weren't for this event he would not have been a star, if it weren't for that event he wouldn't have been a heroin addict, if it weren't for ALL these events, he would not have been so profoundly, emotionally ill-equipped for the level of fame that hit him...at the same time he became a father.
But it took all those things to make him the person who made the music he did.
A happier childhood would have led to a different musical path - so he might still be alive, but would he still have turned out a song like 'Something in the Way'? I personally don't think so.
While I disagree with his choice (as a person who has loved a friend who felt that a bullet to the head was the only way out - I cannot and will not embrace it, obviously), I think about what would have happened if he had not died the way he did.
This is not to be inflammatory - although I know how it sounds - but he said what he felt, he said what he meant, he knew what he wanted, and he followed through on it. Because of that, he is not some disingenuous douchey rock star, who says he doesn't want fame but no one believes him. I cannot even imagine a middle-aged Kurt Cobain, and it's not for lack of trying.
I read this book and wanted to find some place, some crossroads where he could still have been the same, but happier. Different. It doesn't exist. We are not, as he assumed, better off with him gone, but you can't help feel that HE is.
I know this is less review and more life-commentary, but the truth is that if you are going to read this book, you know how it ends and you might be wanting to get a better sense of WHY and/or looking for answers for yourself, like I was.
I was not entirely pleased with them, but ultimately satisfied.
I don't expect you to understand that.
This is a very thorough, seemingly unbiased picture of Kurt - from birth all the way to the end.
If you loved him & his music and feel a sense of loss whenever you listen to it, this deserves your attention.
He should be remembered as a whole, not just for his last, selfish act on this planet.
He had such a truly interesting and devastating life - wonderfully written!
Normalmente una biografía no se contiene cuando se trata de "hablar bien" de su protagonista. Por eso se agradece que este libro logre mostrarnos las facetas más trágicas de la vida de Kurt Cobain, así como los grandes momentos de éxito de su carrera, nunca vistos por él mismo como algo que le trajera felicidad. Resalto la objetividad del autor para mostrarnos que Kurt fue un gran douchebag en muchos momentos de su vida, que cometió errores muy importantes y que., aunque sí tuvo muchos problemas familiares, de amor propio y de drogadicción, mucho de lo que sufrió fue consecuencia directa de sus acciones.