Monday, 3 December 2007
Kurt Cobain (Paperback) Book 2003
Kurt Cobain
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Book Description
First printing thus; oversized softcover, bound to resemble a spiral bound notebook. Cobain's journals reprinted in facsimile. FINE, apparently unused copy.
Book Details
# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (November 27, 2003)
# ISBN-10: 0141011467
# ISBN-13: 978-0141011462
# Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
# Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
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2 Comments:
Tarnished superhero
Picking up this book is an eerie feeling. Kurt had been gone for 10 years by the time it was published and this was part of a never ending legal battle settlement between Krist, Dave and Courtney over who is entitled to what in his estate. I loved Nirvana, I still do. But things came out that I otherwise wouldn't have understood.
As it's published to look exactly like the scraps of notebook paper and stationary that they were written on, you feel as if you are literally reading something he left for you. The first page is what makes it, where he left a note to a lover saying "Read this and figure me out when I'm gone". It made me feel like I was reading some of my own journals, as you page through going "what was I thinking when I wrote this?!". It's a little embarassing, the thought of someone reading my journal after I died.
You would have to be very intimately aquainted with many aspects of his life story to understand the events he writes about. Because of that fact, a glossary is provided to name and date each event. You see the future: trapsing through Aberdeen, a new drummer named Dave is coming, the trip to Rome which would be the last show Nirvana would ever play.
The true horror was something in the middle, as Kurt is spiraling out of control with his addictions and reveals a secret that they tried to keep. He talks about being in rehab with Courtney and that they were not allowed to see or talk to each other and he was lonely there. Six weeks later, their daughter, Frances, was born. Courtney lied, she WAS on drugs the whole time! Time will tell of the long term effects on Frances, as there is only so long she can be kept under lock and key because she's just about to hit the teen years. But Kurt is just as much to blame as she for using drugs while pregnant. How could he? How could they both?
Kurt was a great influence on me, that was a terrible fact to read. Our heros are human, they're not all good. They make mistakes, but I can't just shrug that one off with an "Oh well". Still, he's a martyr. He was the martyr for a brief, exciting time which just happened to be my teenage years.
better than a bio.
i was dissapointed to see only one review so i decided id write one because this book deserves a lot more.kurt was more of an artist than just a musicain as u can see in this book.his drawings seem very talented as far as i know,i dont draw.also even just his day to day writings about any random thing he felt like writing about give u a look into his life and who he was that any biography or behind the music on VH1 ever could. some of it is funny, some i imagine almost anyone can relate to and some of it a foreshadowing of his future.
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