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ezzasyuhada 's review for:
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by Charles R. Cross
As a whole I liked how the writing was simple and easy for me to understand and grasp. The author didn’t use any fancy smchancy words to fluff up the narration and left the narration to speak for itself.
The author wrote Kurt’s life starting from how his parents met up to his untimely suicide where there are gaps in the story-line but as a whole it encompasses important dates and people that shaped Kurt both as a person and the grunge persona we all know today.
There are a few problems I faced when reading this book of which I just cannot turn a blind eye to and the problems are:
The book is heavily biased in favor towards Courtney Love. It isn’t as apparent in the first half of the book (probably because Kurt hasn’t met with Courtney yet) but it is glaringly obvious in the second half. The way the author portrayed Courtney was as if everything from her drug problem to her anger issues was all Kurt’s fault. It was as if Courtney Love is the grunge version of Mother Theresa in this book which I find HIGHLY DOUBTFUL.
This is the MAIN PROBLEM I had with this book and that was when the author took creative license up to a whole new level and decided to put his own rendition of how Kurt’s suicide played out. He described what was in Kurt’s mind, how many cigarettes he smoked, how many sips of beer Kurt drank down to how and why Kurt left the suicide note. This is not cool on so many levels.
In conclusion, Heavier Than Heaven is a book I would recommend if you want to have a light introduction to Kurt Cobains life but be warned that you must read said book with a grain of salt and not entirely believe what was written. Honestly if it wasn’t because of the second problem stated above I was more than willing to just dismiss the bias that existed in this book.
The author wrote Kurt’s life starting from how his parents met up to his untimely suicide where there are gaps in the story-line but as a whole it encompasses important dates and people that shaped Kurt both as a person and the grunge persona we all know today.
There are a few problems I faced when reading this book of which I just cannot turn a blind eye to and the problems are:
The book is heavily biased in favor towards Courtney Love. It isn’t as apparent in the first half of the book (probably because Kurt hasn’t met with Courtney yet) but it is glaringly obvious in the second half. The way the author portrayed Courtney was as if everything from her drug problem to her anger issues was all Kurt’s fault. It was as if Courtney Love is the grunge version of Mother Theresa in this book which I find HIGHLY DOUBTFUL.
This is the MAIN PROBLEM I had with this book and that was when the author took creative license up to a whole new level and decided to put his own rendition of how Kurt’s suicide played out. He described what was in Kurt’s mind, how many cigarettes he smoked, how many sips of beer Kurt drank down to how and why Kurt left the suicide note. This is not cool on so many levels.
In conclusion, Heavier Than Heaven is a book I would recommend if you want to have a light introduction to Kurt Cobains life but be warned that you must read said book with a grain of salt and not entirely believe what was written. Honestly if it wasn’t because of the second problem stated above I was more than willing to just dismiss the bias that existed in this book.