Reviews - Kurt Cobain Journals

Great insight, feels like an intrusion of privacy so I don’t really agree with this book morally, but it is very interesting nonetheless and you can notice his mental decay throughout.

bookartmum's review against another edition

5.0

It was great to peer through the eyes of Kurt Cobain. Reading how his mindset was, was amazing.

wtrac's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

i have not read a more complicated personal account of life, if this can be called that. it can’t, really. this is a breach of contract, an invasion of privacy. reading these journals felt like trying to piece together multiple different puzzles that you knew wouldn’t fit together correctly. it felt good to try, even if it only gave part of an answer. kurt cobain claimed not to be well-read, but every page of his journals reveals him to be extremely thoughtful and much more philosophical than even he himself might’ve believed. it’s hard to imagine what the world would’ve looked like if he’d lived longer. truthfully, everything would probably be the same. despite all of this, i can still say: you can’t fabricate that raw emotion and unapologetic thought. you cannot call that insincere. kurt cobain would’ve hated you. he would’ve hated me, too.

affectionatelyrs's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

i absolutely love kurt’s writings and i think he was much smarter than he or anyone else gave him credit for, but i also feel as if much of this (or all of it) shouldn’t have been published. there’s an entry where he’s expressing frustration about people stealing his journals and invading his thoughts. is this book not just another instance of this? as much as it was wonderful to look into the mind of an amazing musician, i question the ethics of this and i feel very sorry for what he had to fight alone.

shad0wm0ses's review against another edition

3.0

while it was nice to sit and read things about the formation of nirvana and see kurt’s thought process when he was writing, so much of this feels like it shouldn’t have been published. yes, kurt says he wants the reader to ‘figure him out’ but a lot of these entries feel like a cry for help. it’s devastating. i feel like it was kind of insensitive to release it to the public when it was clear how much he was struggling. almost like it’s being glorifed? idk. just my thoughts.

spectracommunist's review against another edition

5.0

This is the most postmodern thing that I've read so far.
And this is one of the definitive literature of our times.

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