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ginabaneena 's review for:
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by Charles R. Cross
I just finished reading HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN and I couldn’t have been more excited to talk about how much this book bugged me!! ⠀
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First off, what I loved:⠀
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KURT COBAIN. ⠀
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He’s a legend. He’s always been one of my favorites and when he died, it was my first taste of loss and heart break. I loved reading more behind the scenes of his life, journal entries and music facts. And Frances! How much he loved that baby girl. ⠀
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What I didn’t like (here we go!):⠀
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The autobiographer, Charles Cross, seemed to be trying to paint a picture of pinning Kurt in this suicide box. I’ve never believed it was suicide but he goes on and on and on for ever about why it was. I started to agree. Okay, I get it, yes, Kurt was suicidal. He talked about it all the time, but what made me furious, when you got to that date in the book, Cross actually tried to paint out what Kurt was thinking with his assumptions. And what he did. HE WASNT THERE. By the time I got to the end of the book I was wondering if this dude even liked Kurt at all? How much money did he get paid for this biased narrative?⠀
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The other thing was with Grohl you could tell there was friction. There was not one nice thing in this regarding a comment from Dave. Then Cross decided to go on and on about how Foo Fighters have won SO MANY Grammys and Nirvana never won one. Ok, fuck you dude. You’re writing an autobiography on Kurt and you’ve turned it into a pissing competition. ⠀
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I WAS SO MAD. ⠀
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I think my main thoughts after finishing was, we all failed Kurt. He didn’t have a chance. His parents going through a divorce and him never properly working those feelings out, trying to find where he fit in, drug use trying to self medicate for his stomach issues... all worked against him. ⠀
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Working in healthcare and reading all the times he begged for help, his doctors failed him. Literally. That’s the part that made me cry. I think he could have had a chance. If he got with the right therapist, someone who truly cared. If he would have found a doctor that actually wanted to dig and find out why he’s having this horrible burning stomach pain and can’t gain weight. ⠀
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But he didn’t. ⠀
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I’m really looking forward to reading Serving the Servant, I hear it’s written by someone who actually cared about him.
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First off, what I loved:⠀
⠀
KURT COBAIN. ⠀
⠀
He’s a legend. He’s always been one of my favorites and when he died, it was my first taste of loss and heart break. I loved reading more behind the scenes of his life, journal entries and music facts. And Frances! How much he loved that baby girl. ⠀
⠀
What I didn’t like (here we go!):⠀
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The autobiographer, Charles Cross, seemed to be trying to paint a picture of pinning Kurt in this suicide box. I’ve never believed it was suicide but he goes on and on and on for ever about why it was. I started to agree. Okay, I get it, yes, Kurt was suicidal. He talked about it all the time, but what made me furious, when you got to that date in the book, Cross actually tried to paint out what Kurt was thinking with his assumptions. And what he did. HE WASNT THERE. By the time I got to the end of the book I was wondering if this dude even liked Kurt at all? How much money did he get paid for this biased narrative?⠀
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The other thing was with Grohl you could tell there was friction. There was not one nice thing in this regarding a comment from Dave. Then Cross decided to go on and on about how Foo Fighters have won SO MANY Grammys and Nirvana never won one. Ok, fuck you dude. You’re writing an autobiography on Kurt and you’ve turned it into a pissing competition. ⠀
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I WAS SO MAD. ⠀
⠀
I think my main thoughts after finishing was, we all failed Kurt. He didn’t have a chance. His parents going through a divorce and him never properly working those feelings out, trying to find where he fit in, drug use trying to self medicate for his stomach issues... all worked against him. ⠀
⠀
Working in healthcare and reading all the times he begged for help, his doctors failed him. Literally. That’s the part that made me cry. I think he could have had a chance. If he got with the right therapist, someone who truly cared. If he would have found a doctor that actually wanted to dig and find out why he’s having this horrible burning stomach pain and can’t gain weight. ⠀
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But he didn’t. ⠀
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I’m really looking forward to reading Serving the Servant, I hear it’s written by someone who actually cared about him.