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smessen 's review for:
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by Charles R. Cross
I enjoyed this book until I got to the last chapter. Like a couple of other reviews state, the author makes it feel like Kurt is a character in a fictional story. I am absolutely fascinated by his life. The book is packed with details that left me astounded. While reading, I kept a browser open on my computer because there was always something I wanted to look into or a video to search. The author did a brilliant job of describing specific scenes and pictures, I really wish more of the pictures he described would have been included in this book. The final chapter, however, surrounding the events around his death had me pretty upset. The author describes in great detail what Kurt did alone in his house and what he was thinking ... Why he did what he did. There is no way for the author to know this. It is unfair for the author to assume many of the things written, especially since Kurt is not here to defend himself. We will never know what was going through his head and I'm okay with that. I'm pissed that the author tried to fill that space with an assumed story. We can all make assumptions based on his journal entries and interviews, but that's all it is .... An assumption, a feeling .... Not fact.