The most boring Kurt Cobain book
343374
This book has no structure... Its so boring. Usually when I read a book about Kurt Cobain I cant put it down, but this one I could... EASILY. Ive tried on many occasions, to read this book and stick with it, but I couldnt. Its almost like a addict who cant quit whatever, they just fail. And I failed to enjoy this book. Its boring, and it only talks about stuff Ive already heard. And it documents when the fans and world heard about Cobain's death. Its a good thing I didn't buy it new, and got it for $2.99 at Half Price books, I couldn't have ever forgiven myself for wasting my money on this. Its even worse than Heavier than Heaven... Read Who killed Kurt Cobain? or Love and Death, by the same genius authors. The truth is in those novels.
4697511
I saw this one day and bought it out of sheer delight that someone had written a book about one of my favorite bands of all time! Wish I'd looked here first, then I wouldn't have wasted my time and money. Since this is supposed to be a "definitive  biography", according to the back cover, I would have expected something thoroughly researched about the band members, how they got together and how they came apart. Instead, this is just superficial, hastily thrown together stuff anybody could get from reading magazine articles. This writer doesn't have any real knowledge about anything. When he gets to a point in the story where an album is released, he pretty much trashes it. Does he even like this band? If he doesn't why write a book about them? He really gives a beating to Frank Black's solo material. I can agree with some of his analysis of the later stuff, but saying that "Teenager of the Year" shouldn't even be removed from the shrinkwrap? Now that's just downright cruel.

Then there are the slotted-in chapters regarding some incredibly stupid girl named Vicky, her family and tiny, pointless, worthless connections to the Pixies...I guess this is some kind of attempt at some arty fiction, but, um, really, no one cares. This is without a doubt the lamest book I have read in a long time. It's a super-easy read, it went fast, that's why I finished it.  Had it been any longer I wouldn't have bothered.

Here's a couple of good things I can say....there are some nice photos (only b&w, and the captions are an idiotic attempt at humor and an excuse to remark how fat the band members are). I like the cover  design too. In fact, I am going to trim the title off the cover photo and keep that and I may clip a few pictures from the inside. After that this piece of garbage is going into the landfill.
3797873
nirvana, what can i say about this band, well kobain`s voice is punishment to any human being ears just terrible, no power no melody no nothing, an insignificant drummer and a good for nothing bass player. And that`s just the beggining. Regarding to the lyrics only a sick person like kurt kobain can writte such a stupid, borring, sad, songs. Thanx God the world is better place without nirvana, unfortunately bans like pearl jam, creed, etc, etc are still around but they will die soon enough. I just can`t believe how grunge and alternative sh$t make it so big in the 90s but those times are changing, the interest for glam rock is growing bigger every day and the heavy metal genre in Europe and South America is begginig to kick ass again, if you don`t belive me just listen to bands like sonata artica, ed guy, the masters of symphonic metal Rhapsody and many more, bands that combine technique, talent, compositon, epic lyrics and if that is to elaborated for you stick to the basic yes glam rock, hard rock and 80s metal (SKID ROW) not to many composition but lots of fun and talent. Do you know why they call this ``alternative`` music, because this music is for those who never knew what to choose i mean between rock and pop, so they mix a lot of noises and slow driven music to create this pointless genre that always tried to copy the power, youth, and that in your face way of live that made entire generations stand up and fight for what they believe, but alternative and grunge bands never achieve this, only rock and roll did it, AND NO OTHER GENRE COULD EVER MATCH THIS........ NEVER

LONG LIVE EDWARD MAIDEN THE GREAT AND ETERNITY TO YOUR SONS, THE IRON MAIDEN AND THE BLOODBROTHERS.

excuse my english i am not from the US but i think many of you understand
3147506
I think this is disrespectful to Kurt for the fact that we are reading some thing that was never meant to be read. Anyone who is a fan of Nirvana already knows what he was going through because of his music. If you couldn't tell then you didn't listen. And yes all it is, is a gimicke for COurtney to get money which she obviously needs now more than ever, and I used to be the biggest Hole fan. But honestly she is disgustingly rediculous.
2348404
I got this as a gift by chance - otherwise I wouldn't deem to listen to this sort of music. But after all I did. For me, a rock fan, it was nearly unlistenable (I went thru it to the end just from the respect I had for the donor). Boring, boring, from the start to the end. I cannot understand the success that Enrique could achieve. Musically, nothing new, untouched with rock history and with current modern trends in music (the effort to rap in one of the tracks is just worth a smile). Commercial bubble gum music for female teens, only pretending emotion while being emotionless. Enrique's vocal is ordinaire, somewhat worn down and weepy. I see the only advantage of Enrique - the handsome face on the cover photo. If you are a principally a rock fan, don't waste your time with this stuff like I did.
2142809
They say that people who keep journals secretly long to have them read. From this book, it seems that Kurt Cobain explicitly wanted his journals to be read. What we get is a few hundred pages of often inane ramblings that amount to nothing more than a great artist showing off.
  While Cobain's lyrics were chilling and stirring within the context of his brutal, soulful music, they come off as pretensious (sp?) outside of the songs. How many times can he make the "I'd wear a tie-dyed shirt if it was dyed with the blood of Jerry Garcia and the urine of Phil Collins" joke? There are some nice moments, like the Mr. Moustache cartoon and the little notation for the Nordictrac number, indicative of Cobain's low body image.
 I love Nirvana. Songs like "Scentless Apprentice" still chill me 10 years later.  But the publication of Cobain's journals seems to me to be the literary equivalent of those Jimi Hendrix compilations that come out every so often: grave robbing of an artist whose original work needs no more explanation.
2826093
This flat and boring book is all about Sex, Drugs and very little rock and roll-----------a total waste of time
3016432
After reading Out I was very excited to read anther book from Natsuo Kirino. Out was so well written and well Real World didn't even seem like it came from the same author. The book was sooooo boring, that I had to force myself to get to the end (skipping quite a few pages here and there helped out with this). I'm so glad I bought a used copy online for about $2 or I would really be mad I paid full price to read this crap. I guess she is a one hit author because Out was definitely incredible while this fell flatter than a dead guy on a heart monitor.
4508667
The book is very boring, easily put down. The author has no clue what living during war is. Book starts with 10 y old girl going to foster home, no explanation why. She's on a train with her mother and brother who died during this journey, no explanation why. They arrive at destination, mother disappears. The girl doesn't seem to mind because she has "new parents" now. No mention of her mother anymore.
Author writes most of the book about this young girl and her common everyday events. BORING! She goes and cusses out the town mayor's wife. At this event, the girl is 11. It is no way, NO WAY, that European children were brought up this way. No way. She and her friend took his bikes for looting purposes: in those days, bicycles were very scares commodities and only few could afford them. He writes how they threw the bikes on ground. Who in those days owned a bike, they were used for transportation only (to work, for examples), and not to loot houses. The bikes were treated well and polished after each use. He, the author, shows an example of written notes. The notes are printed. Really??? Printing is a modern style of American children writing. To this day ALL children in Europe still use cursive, and still, during the war, a Schwabacher style was being used. Wake up Zusak!!!
The war, according to Zusak, was 1/2 way thru when first bomber attacked Munchen. When, in fact, on the average, there was attack once a month on Munich during the wartime. During the war, the children were playing in the streets, having fun, run racing, etc, according to Zusak.
Another odd thing he's writing about is this Jew the foster family was hiding in the basement. One day he got so ill he didn't get up for 8 days. He had to smell pretty badly! All worried that he'll die and how are they going to dispose of his body? But when he woke up, he was all cheerfull, carrying a great conversation with the 11 yr old girl as if he just woke up from a very refreshing nap.
Zusak forgets that 11 or 12 yr old's brain do not think as an adult brain. He writes of this girl's decisions and thinkings as an adult.
I have read the book to page 400, but I had to stop. Too boring and uninteresting book, full of fantasies and no facts. As the book cover says: "could be life changing". Life changing, indeed. I will never pick up any of Zusak's books again.
4977685
So have you ever read a book where there is all this hype and everyone seems to like/have on their reading list and you read it and are like "It was okay, I guess?" That was this book to me.  How the author made an interesting story and topic so boring is beyond me... The author was the persecutor for this case and I guess all the reading and writing of boring legal documents bled into his writing style for this book.  He was repetitive at times which made it confusing and hard to follow at times.  He also used this book to bad-mouth the LAPD and make him look good.  The LAPD certainly screwed up this investigation but just the way he phrased things made me dislike him or get annoyed with him.  If anyone has a suggestion for a book on the Manson Murders or The Family, please comment below because I would love to read an interesting, well-written book on the subject.  I tried reading this book multiple times before just switching over to the audiobook which still put me to sleep at times and took forever to get through.

I gave this book 2 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.
2733169
I really thought this was going to be an in-depth biography. Well, if it was, then Denise is the most boring woman to have walked the planet! While I like the books positive messages (i.e. be real, be yourself, grin and bear it, etc) I agree with other reviews on here that there is no gossip at all, and 99% of the book is boring. This is an example..."la la la I married Charlie...la la awesome. la la I ate a pickle and he knew I was pregnant. la la no more about Charlie or anything but some drivel about painting a nursery..la la here is what my dad thought...la la" and this is how the book goes--BUT it is worse than the above mentioned "la la" filler. Don't believe me? See for yourself. This book is so boring it will put you to sleep. Oh, Denise was picked on as a young girl. She loves her kids. She misses her mom, who passed on from cancer. She is positive and likes Guns and Roses. She's dated men, they cheat, she is sad, but that's all about men or Hollywood because, well, that's all personal. So, at the end of the day, the book is vapid, general, and really could have been written by anyone. I am so dissapointed. I thought she had more to say for herself. I am glad I checked this out of a library because if I bought it I would have been so pissed!
2795736
This book should be a 2 for 1 deal with a dictionary and a thesarus too. this person uses some trippy words and goes off topic in weird spots; this is not a bio-book or anything and it doesnt have any nirvana in it. I didn't buy it it was a gift so I'll keep it in the collection, but its for ^-^hardcore^-^ Kurt lovers and not people wanting info on the band or easy reading. it is cool for collecting.

Peace, J. D.
4445241
This album along with nirvana's nevermind (aka the most overrated grunge album ever) has got to be the most overrated and worst I've ever seen in my life, both robert van winkle and kurt nobrain were both lame ridiculous and fake artists who cared about nobody but themselves, Ice Ice Baby & Smells like teen spirit were the worst songs ever.

Thank God they both faded from obscurity, at least vanilla ice didn't kill himself like kurt did.

If you want a real rap and grunge album from the 90's, pick up Alice in chains dirt and 2pac's strickly for my n*****.
2823441
This book is so far the most boring book I have never read in my life. 95% of the contents are just plain common sense. The worse part is that we have to write an essay on what we learned from it every two weeks. We learned absolutely nothing from it!!! It puts me right into sleep every time I start to read it. I heard lots of same comments from my classmates on this book. If you have hard time to go sleep at night, you should definably spend $40 dollars and give this book a try.
2727387
Ever heard the progressive rock stylings of Buffalo Tom? Now THERE'S some music you can groove to. Nirvana wasn't even half as good. When I was first getting into music and becoming my own person, I saw My So-Called Life and heard about them. I bought their debut, and was so happy that I didn't waste it on Kurt Cobain's cries for pity backed to squealing guitars. Nirvana was a horrible live band, so I personally think they were horrible period. Their pricey studio trickery they used to cover up their imperfections on Nevermind proves how cold and calculating "Kurdt" was. "Artist" my ass. If he really wanted an honest album, he could've re-recorded the songs for the album in his basement, and then sent THAT to Geffen. After all, Kurt had total creative control over everything Geffen got, so he could've changed it if he honestly wanted to. But, of course he didn't. He was lazy, left Nevermind the glossy way it was, and then watched as Sam Goodys everywhere stocked it for way much more than it was worth. Sure, he loved cassettes and vinyl, but when he saw fans having to spend over 15 bucks per CD, he didn't give a sh*t about his fans. After all, at least it wasn't HIM having to scrounge up that money. He was a famous heroin rock star now. Want a real taste of what Nirvana was? Then go out to Sam Goody's and plunk down nearly 20 bucks for Muddy Banks, and then have a good cry. I guarantee you WILL shed tears after having wasted that much money on such a disaster of a set of live performances.

Rest In Peace, Ray Charles
Rest In Hell, Kurt Cobain
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I had no idea that Mick already wrote an autobio in 1990, so this was all new to me. However, the book is pretty boring, since it slights music in favor of endless recollections of his various wives, starting with Jenny, the sister of ex-George Harrison wife, Patty Boyd. She recurrs throughout, and much of the book seems to be a therapy session for Mick to hash out how and why he went wrong in all of his relationhips, although booze and cocaine may have played a part.
I wanted much more about music, and especially about drumming. But there is almost nothing here about Mick Fleetwood, the drummer, except his observations that he plays somewhat unconventionally. The albums do sort of get rehashed, and they are why we remain at all interested in Fleetwood Mac. I relistened to "Tusk,' the difficult third Steve Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham album, and it still sort of stinks on every other track (all Lindsey Buckingham New Wave experiments). Mick calls it their best. Um, no.
I found the latter half of the book, after the band's biggest successes, the most interesting since I didn't know what Mick did in those years. It turns out he went into various weird business ventures which lost a lot of money. He must have squandered millions over the years, but he doesn't exactly say how much, just that he declared bankruptcy twice, proving that sports stars are not the only dumb and rich celebrities.
Read this if you didn't see his first bio. Otherwise, as some point out, it's pretty much  rehash.
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-Spoilers, please don't read if you don't want to know.-
(ignore any spelling errors, I need sleep.)

I seem to be one of the few who doesn't have praise for this book. I've never read anything of this author before, but the book alone was just very boring. The twists and turns were no ride to go on, because you already knew the track.

There are 33 chapters in this book. 338 pages. At chapter 12, page 104, I figured out both the killer and the affair AT THE SAME TIME. As soon as the affair began.

And the rest is just filler once you got it all figured out, 21 long, unneeded chapters more that I didn't even need to read through. That's a lot of reading to do for nothing but to see how it unfolds.

How did I know? Common sense. Wes's son left the house and then the sister is screwing some guy all the sudden. It's not a hard stone to throw. And her brother listens in, as though he knows who it is. That would stand to reason that the guy is sick in general, not only for listening in on his sister having sex, but for knowing she's having sex with a student. That doesn't automatically mean you're capable of murder, but this is a book and you go with the leads that are painfully obvious. The outstanding creep in the book is probably the killer. Of course Tierney isn't the killer, that would be even easier. Wes is not because that would be too easy to guess, his son wouldn't do it because he has no motive for more than one dead girl. It's simple math and elimation. Plain and simple.

The several police workers that were threw in the story and their conversations between each other were enough to put you to sleep. I mean that completely.

You knew the ex-husband was going to die, he was too much of a lunatic, being abusive and his life going no where. I can't even remember his name because the author switched back and forth between his last name and first name so often that I was distracted. You just saw it coming and you didn't feel sad when he did.

And of course, every book that's lacking incredibly in emotion and just plain interest is going to end happily with a baby on the way. It's one of the biggest cop-outs in writing when you have no more emotional way to tie things up -- because this book SEVERLY lacked much emotion in general. Sure, they were mad, or sad, or scared, but you couldn't FEEL it. They just WERE.

It dragged on and on as soon as I'd figured it all out, nothing surprised me at all. It wasn't very creative, I was rolling my eyes at the painting of the characters that this author did, because when the painting was finished, they were just as dull as they were before she tried to make them into whole people. It was sad to me that the student-teacher love affair was more exciting than the two stuck in the cabin. There was no radiance.

This book was hard to pick up time and time again just to finish it, not hard to put down. I wouldn't reccomend this book. If you're looking for a book that you'll remember when you read something else after it, this isn't for you. It won't change your life, it won't even provide more than an hour's entertainment. Maybe she's done better work, and if so, that's great because this one wasn't great.

But personally, I'm not going to jump at reading another one of her books after days and days of trying to focus on this one, and fight my way through the bland snowstorm that is this book.