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kristinmarta 's review for:
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by Charles R. Cross
First off, when I came to this book, I was going through an intense and almost pathological need to know more. And I was just stuck, mired in questions about the nature of his suffering, feeling terrible that he felt that bad, that anyone would feel that bad. It also brought up a lot of memories of that time period for me. I was only 9 when Nevermind came out. But I remember the videos, I remember the MTV appearances, I remember the Sassy magazine cover, I remember the vigil. I grew up in an atmospheric slosh of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. Anyway....
With that in mind, I still think this book holds up and would be appropriate for people with a casual interest and also appropriate for completists. It goes into excruciating detail about his life, based on interviews from what seems like every person who ever had contact with him. Adding more vivid details about his life and death makes it all the more heartbreaking. It gives context for what were really only a couple short years between meteoric success of Nevermind (1991) and his suicide (1994). Kurt was a notoriously unreliable narrator of his own story, so while reading/listening to his own interviews is fascinating; this book provides a different type of insight.
With that in mind, I still think this book holds up and would be appropriate for people with a casual interest and also appropriate for completists. It goes into excruciating detail about his life, based on interviews from what seems like every person who ever had contact with him. Adding more vivid details about his life and death makes it all the more heartbreaking. It gives context for what were really only a couple short years between meteoric success of Nevermind (1991) and his suicide (1994). Kurt was a notoriously unreliable narrator of his own story, so while reading/listening to his own interviews is fascinating; this book provides a different type of insight.