maude_mooney 's review for:

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross

3.0

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This might have put an end to my nirvana deep dive. I know the biographies I’ve read that are written by friends of Kurt’s will be very biased, but this author felt like way too much of a swing the other way. It felt like he was trying so hard to get the reader to dislike Kurt and focused so heavily on sexuality and made him seem like a malicious liar. And although he definitely did some very horrible things in his life, I would have appreciated more focus on his mental health and addiction issues rather than it feeling like the author just thought he was too lazy to give up drugs. Anyways, not a necessarily bad read, just seemed like a very negative lens.