Rating: 
Summary: Tiring Read
Review: Although this work does contain some insights into the life of Kurt Cobain, it's repetitive, often self-contradictory, and far too long for the amount of information presented. Many quotes appear without attribution, while others are used over and over again too re-emphasize tired points. Sandford makes frequent analogies between Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix which seem to serve more as a vehicle for the author's extensive knowledge of latter than to contribute to an analysis of the former's life. Other potentially interesting inquiries are ignored (e.g. surprisingly, to me at least, members of the band R.E.M. pop up several times as friends and likely musical collaborators of Cobain, yet there is no discussion of how the parties knew each other, what the context of the relationship was, etc.) On the whole it seems that the author was faced with limited cooperative sources and was forced to over use this material and augment it with filler and speculation to complete the book.
Rating:
Summary: Tiring Read
Review: Although this work does contain some insights into the life of Kurt Cobain, it's repetitive, often self-contradictory, and far too long for the amount of information presented. Many quotes appear without attribution, while others are used over and over again too re-emphasize tired points. Sandford makes frequent analogies between Cobain and Jimmy Hendrix which seem to serve more as a vehicle for the author's extensive knowledge of latter than to contribute to an analysis of the former's life. Other potentially interesting inquiries are ignored (e.g. surprisingly, to me at least, members of the band R.E.M. pop up several times as friends and likely musical collaborators of Cobain, yet there is no discussion of how the parties knew each other, what the context of the relationship was, etc.) On the whole it seems that the author was faced with limited cooperative sources and was forced to over use this material and augment it with filler and speculation to complete the book.
Rating: 
Summary: Not the Best Kurt Cobain Book
Review: I found this book to have a lot of great information about the life of Kurt Cobain, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you read Heavier than Heaven, you will notice that some of the information in this novel is false. I also found it to be very repetitive. It is also not a very easy read. I would recommend Heavier than Heaven if you're looking for a good biography on Kurt Cobain, but if you're looking for some more insight into his life, then check this book out.
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Summary: Awesome Piece Of Work
Review: I never knew all the details of Cobain till i read this book, just about everything you need to know about Kurt
Rating: 
Summary: Save your money
Review: I'll have to agree with the other reviews. This is one of the worst books about Cobain and doesn't exactly add any new credible information. The book is highly repetitive in diminishing Cobains talent and exaggerates his drug use as a child. It is proposterous to conclude that Cobain turned into a drug addict because he was put on ritalin as a kid. Many examples and stories are of extreme questionable validity that it would have been better not to include them. For example, the statement of a women claiming that Cobain would have raped her if he had the chance. Quite a statement to make and even worse to put it in a book in hopes to gain credibility? Another particularly questionable comment of an interviewee for the book was that of a women that claims she always felt an 'evil presence' when she walked by his house in Aberdeen. Haha. Hard for me to believe someone with at least an ounce of ambition of making this an accurate description of someones life would actually include statments like these in a book. All in all, Sandfords credibility was shot after the first couple of chapters. I finished reading the book nonetheless, mostly in hopes of finding any relevant and useful information, unfortunately there was none. There is nothing worthwhile in this book that wouldn't have been covered by any other Cobain biography.
Rating:
Summary: Save your money
Review: I'll have to agree with the other reviews. This is one of the worst books about Cobain and doesn't exactly add any new credible information. The book is highly repetitive in diminishing Cobains talent and exaggerates his drug use as a child. It is proposterous to conclude that Cobain turned into a drug addict because he was put on ritalin as a kid. Many examples and stories are of extreme questionable validity that it would have been better not to include them. For example, the statement of a women claiming that Cobain would have raped her if he had the chance. Quite a statement to make and even worse to put it in a book in hopes to gain credibility? Another particularly questionable comment of an interviewee for the book was that of a women that claims she always felt an 'evil presence' when she walked by his house in Aberdeen. Haha. Hard for me to believe someone with at least an ounce of ambition of making this an accurate description of someones life would actually include statments like these in a book. All in all, Sandfords credibility was shot after the first couple of chapters. I finished reading the book nonetheless, mostly in hopes of finding any relevant and useful information, unfortunately there was none. There is nothing worthwhile in this book that wouldn't have been covered by any other Cobain biography.
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Summary: Dont get your hopes up for this book!
Review: If you're a fan of Kurt Cobain, I would highly suggest reading something else. I found this book by Christopher Sanford to be just flat out boring and disappointing. The author jumps around way too much with events and puts in his "negative" opinions and comments as if he didn't like Kurt Cobain. The beginning starts off interesting as the story is set in Cobain's hometown Seattle, Washington. I learned and red about his family and childhood. How he took medication at such a young age and never really fit in at school. And how he went through his parents getting divorced and the effects it would later have on him in life. After the first few chapters that's when it started to get boring. But then slowly picking up the pace as the author wrote more about how the legendary band, Nirvana, and how they formed. Their hit album, Nevermind went platinum 10 times and sold over 7 million copies. As the fame hit these small town boys from Seattle, it seems that's when trouble came for Cobain. As he delt with major drug addictions from marijuana, bottles of cough syrup, and alcohol, it was the heroin that got to him. One thing I learned that I found to be interesting was that Cobain had chronic stomach pains growing up that was inherited from his mother. It was pain that didn't stop which was why he partly did drugs, to be at ease from it. Throughout the book the events skip around a lot going from Cobain's music to Nirvana's world wide tour, to his sexual partners, his drug abuse, Courtney Love, his suicide and pretty much everything else just seemed slapped together. I'd have to say that reading articles in newspapers or magazines are more desirable. Overall the author came across as being harsh, as his judgments toward Cobain I though were rude. I was expecting this book to be an interesting biography of the guy who played in a remarkable band that has made history as they helped grunge music emerge from the early 90's.
Rating:
Summary: Dont get your hopes up for this book!
Review: If you're a fan of Kurt Cobain, I would highly suggest reading something else. I found this book by Christopher Sanford to be just flat out boring and disappointing. The author jumps around way too much with events and puts in his "negative" opinions and comments as if he didn't like Kurt Cobain. The beginning starts off interesting as the story is set in Cobain's hometown Seattle, Washington. I learned and red about his family and childhood. How he took medication at such a young age and never really fit in at school. And how he went through his parents getting divorced and the effects it would later have on him in life. After the first few chapters that's when it started to get boring. But then slowly picking up the pace as the author wrote more about how the legendary band, Nirvana, and how they formed. Their hit album, Nevermind went platinum 10 times and sold over 7 million copies. As the fame hit these small town boys from Seattle, it seems that's when trouble came for Cobain. As he delt with major drug addictions from marijuana, bottles of cough syrup, and alcohol, it was the heroin that got to him. One thing I learned that I found to be interesting was that Cobain had chronic stomach pains growing up that was inherited from his mother. It was pain that didn't stop which was why he partly did drugs, to be at ease from it. Throughout the book the events skip around a lot going from Cobain's music to Nirvana's world wide tour, to his sexual partners, his drug abuse, Courtney Love, his suicide and pretty much everything else just seemed slapped together. I'd have to say that reading articles in newspapers or magazines are more desirable. Overall the author came across as being harsh, as his judgments toward Cobain I though were rude. I was expecting this book to be an interesting biography of the guy who played in a remarkable band that has made history as they helped grunge music emerge from the early 90's.
Rating:
Summary: Those who can't, criticize
Review: Not much more to add to what's already been posted. This is an extremely negative, spiteful "biography" with dubious claims and quotations. Sources are scarce and often anonymous...lots of bitter commentary on Seattle, Kurt, and Nirvana fans. I've read a lot about Cobain, not all of it pleasant, but this is just vile and mean-spirited. Not to mention unsupported. I feel ripped off.
Rating:
Summary: Those who can't, criticize
Review: Not much more to add to what's already been posted. This is an extremely negative, spiteful "biography" with dubious claims and quotations. Sources are scarce and often anonymous...lots of bitter commentary on Seattle, Kurt, and Nirvana fans. I've read a lot about Cobain, not all of it pleasant, but this is just vile and mean-spirited. Not to mention unsupported. I feel ripped off.
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