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Summary: Depressing
Review: "Journals" is sad and depressing. If Cobain's music brought joy to you, as it did to so many, this (especially) won't be for you. The purpose of books, as I see it, is to entertain. There's really nothing entertaining here, just sadness. If you want to be entertained, read "No One's Even Bleeding" or "Delano". At least you'll get a laugh.
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Summary: Corporate Profit
Review: The publication of these diary entries represents yet another attempt to profit from a resurrected rock icon image. There is nothing new here--nothing that we did not know before about Kurt--nothing we could not have read about in the several biographies on him. Reading these diary entries is incredibly eerie and depressing. We tread into a private domain where we do not belong--and i dare say, no one belongs. We need to allow the dead to rest in peace. PLE.
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Summary: Nope
Review: First off- Being a product of the 70s and 80s music scene I still do not see the supposed genius of Kurt Cobain. The early 90s hardly a high point in popular music- maybe that is why this band seemed to stand out. What I will never understand is why losing your life early in your career automatically gives legend status. Sid and Nancy already happened. So far as this book is concerned, maybe someone should have type-set this thing, while an editor pulled out whatever might have been seen as significant material worthy of publishing. To me, this looks like a pile of junk that some kid wrote while suffering from the mass-boredom of Study Hall... But then again, leaving some mystery is what keeps legends going. Now that any mystery has been removed, give us another 20 years and see if anybody still talks about Cobain the way they do Buddy Holly or Jimi Hendrix. With any respect due to Mr. Cobain- this pile of scribbles should have remained in the vault.
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Summary: Curious moral situations...but that doesn't change quality.
Review: As some have pointed out, this collection of Kurt Cobain's writings presents a moral paradox. Anybody who was a serious fan of Cobain's (and certainly anybody who reads these journals) knows that he would never, ever, ever want to see them presented in such a way and marketed to the masses to satisfy their morbid curiosity. To read this book is to go directly against his wishes. Having said that, however...I read it knowing that. The assumption seems to be that a dead man's wish should trump all other values, and I don't see that. Kurt Cobain didn't want you to ever read this. He also wanted to kill himself with a shotgun. Kurt Cobain made a lot of wrong decisions, and they sholdn't be automatically respect as a knee-jerk reaction. If you asked the pharoahs, I'm sure they wouldn't want their pyramids opened up and examined. That, however, is really irrelevant. Someone who becomes history is bigger than their own wishes and selves...that's the price. It's a good book. They're good readings. Read them.
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Summary: Greedy violation of a great man's privacy
Review: Kurt Cobain, may his soul rest in peace, was a great artist and a beautiful human being. His music changed the lives of millions and helped give an identity to countless disaffected youth. Buying this book is doing the greatest disservice to him that I can possibly think of: you are personally lining with gold the pockets of Courtney Love and the greedy publishing company executives who made this rape of Cobain's thoughts possible. If you are a true fan--no, a true human being, you will allow Kurt Cobain to rest. If you feel a need to peek into his thoughts, buy his albums.
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Summary: YOU HAVE TO LOVE THIS CHANCE
Review: having just become a Cobain fan....... I found this to be a great chance to read first hand just what was or was not going on in this young mans mind....... there were things that I found extremely funny...... things that I found to be very sweet and loving......... then there were the darker parts that though I hate to think that he would take his on life..... it matters not the end is still the end...... I have been on a mission to read each and everything thing that I can find about this talented young man I just had to have this book...... and I must say with all honesty I will take great pains to make sure that this book stays close for a long time to come....... wonderful insight to a troubled mind and life of someone that touched so many lives (whether or not he ever really wanted to) a must read and own for all KURT COBAIN fans.........
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Summary: If you read You'll Judge
Review: ..says the god of grunge inside this book.I lost an ounce of my attained nirvana as soon I sold myself out to this blantant play of marketing on the hardcore grunge fans by the corporate bigwigs and Kurt's "wife".
A better idea would have been like posting a request to Cobain's fans worldwide to send a dollar per head so that Courtney would have some money.
..the whole spirit of grunge - the iconoclastic stiff upper lip, the music for a lost generation ...all bites the dust with this final nail in Curt's coffin...plainly put Grunge is being SOLD OUT.
Of course an alleged dairy supposedly chronicling Kurt's deepest thoughts and views. I thought his music spoke for us. Any grunge fan's dairy would almost look like this.
Sorry Kurt, I stepped on your grave man (but you asked for it - "Rape Me") ...the man who sold the world got sold out. A disgusting display of desperate marketing and corporate prank on the true fans of grunge. If you know Kurt's music then you don't need this quickie fix.
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Summary: An Appeal to your Voyeuristic Tendencies
Review: My first reaction upon opening the book was disappointed because instead of 270 pages of printed text, what you are seeing are photographs of the journal pages, which means there is much less content than I expected. However, I soon came to like seeing the actual journal pages, because it gives a sort of voyeuristic thrill to seeing his actual scribblings, including his doodling and comic strips; it's as if you'd found his notebooks lying around and were reading through them just as they'd been written. Overall though, the content was, for me, somewhat disappointing. Frankly, they look very much like the notebooks of any angst-ridden, bohemian, immature adolescent. Much of what is supposed to pass as profundity is just the incoherent ramling of someone who was probably stoned when he scribbled down the words. His command of the English language is strikingly poor. Still, all this being said, if you are a Nirvana/Kurt Cobain fan, the book is a must read, as it does give you a better idea of what was in Kurt's head, and sheds some interesting light on the development of Nirvana.
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Summary: "... Me"
Review: I don't know if it really matters how you rate this book. A journal is a journal, and I bet Cobain didn't intend for a bunch of phonies to go and read his private journals. However, I did go and read it. The size of the book is a little deceiving. There aren't many words in the book (for it's size), and I read it within 2 days (it's that short). He pretty much talks about the same thing over and over in it, and there are pages where the words are exactly the same, but in a different format. For example: one page shows a handwritten rough draft, a second rough draft, and a final typed version. I felt guilty reading this... there was also a sense of phoniness... when I come to think of it, I don't really know if these could really be Kurt Cobains journal entries because the handwriting is different on each writing, and it seems that the writings always start off on the right hand side of an open journal. I say, go ahead and judge for yourself.
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Summary: kurt cobain's lost jurnals
Review: this book was really sad... includes all of his social problems including depression and drug abuse... I really liked it...
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