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Title: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles Cross ISBN: 0-7868-6505-9 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (174 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Arrogant author
Comment: This book was well written, well under some circumstances. Charles R. Cross is an arrogant author as clearly noted in the title of this review. He thinks he knew everything about Kurt, when the fact is... he never met the man! Michael Azzerad who really met Kurt and acted as his official biographer should be the one acts this way, even his family doesnt act the way CRC does. Charles is like oh, I touched the heart shaped box, oh I touched his guitars. so what! we're not looking at your interviews and books to see what you have done man! On the chapter where Kurt dies, he says"kurt put the rifle into his mouth" or whatever I mean c'mon dude you must be stupid or think the fans are stupid to think that you know exactly how he died! No one does, if the man was murdered only a few people know I guess. Only god knows some of the details he added.. Overall good book, good detail thats my only problem with this book. fun to read
Rating: 1
Summary: Major issues
Comment: The mainstream press has praised it to high heaven as the Cobain book to buy. However, there are some major issues here. It was a collaboration between Courtney Love and Charles Cross, which is a red flag off the bat. Love is blatantly trying to change history in it, and paint herself and her late husband in a totally different light. Some of it is based on diaries Kurt left behind. Diaries that could have been easily manipulated at some point or another. It's no secret that Kurt was prepared to divorce Courtney before he died. She admits it herself in taped conversations with Tom Grant in 1994 and 1995. People around them have also spoken out about the turmoil between the two at the time. Yet this book wants us to believe that they had a great marriage. Remaining Nirvana members are also accusing Courtney Love of changing history and pasting herself into things so they benefit her. Clearly a slap in the face to them, as well as Kurt's memory. Cross also likes to take speculation and present them the same way as he does facts. He writes of Kurt's last morning like he was actually there. Heavier Than Heaven has some major flaws, so read this book with caution.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Kurt Cobain biography I've read so far
Comment: I am obsessed with Kurt Cobain, so most of the books I read have to do with him. This is the best biography I've read of him so far. The book is written very objectively, so it has positive and negative aspects, which was nice. I would definitely recommend it.
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Title: Journals by Kurt Cobain ISBN: 1573222321 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon by Ian Halperin, Max Wallace, May Wallace ISBN: 0806520744 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad ISBN: 0385471998 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Never Fade Away : The Kurt Cobain Story by Dave Thompson ISBN: 0312954638 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Cobain by Editors of Rolling Stone ISBN: 0316880159 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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