Journals

Rating:
Summary: Heavy
Review: Kurt Cobain was what Eric Dolphy was to small animals. His trajectory was short and tragic but his lifeline still seeths like a child pretending a stick of asparagus is a long match and proceeding to light a crayon he pretends is a cigarette. No words can condemn someone for carving microscopic figurines of werewolves out of ivory, but Stevie Wonder and Paul Mcartney were on to something, something special. If Kurt Cobain was a nut-cracker brought back from England by your parents, not only would you be up a certain creek without a paddle, you'd be juggling a military industrial complex, a blind poodle, and a marble. Like Fess Parker, Kurt Cobain still watches Jason & the Argonauts and Glazunovs' Sixth Symphony is still his favorite Russian Symphony. If he only let go of Kirov earlier he may not of offended the Germans at Brest-Litvosk and Trotsky would have asked for hot tea. Nirvana is the final freeing of a soul from all that enslaves it... Journals are like The Pixies interupting D. Boon outside of a prison. Listen to "Still Feel Gone" instead.

Rating:
Summary: You be the Judge
Review: I've always been fascinated by Kurt Cobain. Although I'm only thirteen, I've sensed some sort of connection between me and his music. Like most people, I wanted to peek inside his mind; I wanted to know everything. Everything thought, every dream, every moment, every mood. Who doesn't? Maybe some would consider it violating, reading his own personal journals, but you just can't help but want to. And it was worth it. Do I feel guilty? Not at all.

Kurt's journals are one of the fewer *real* life account diaries in which is genius. If anyone who has read the Diary of Anne Frank, you can bet Journals by Kurt Cobain is just as remarkable on its own. You can follow Kurt on the same journey as you did with Anne; Through the happy times, the sad times, and times when you just don't know how to feel but try to anyway. The outcome is amazing. Filled with doodlings, letters, funny yet sarcastic-mocking comics, shopping lists, and random writings from Kurt.

You can also note from his writings that Kurt was not afraid to say what he wanted to say. He did not fear anyone, although sometimes he feared himself. He believed grunge and punk rock was more than multi-coloured hair, worn out Metallica t-shirts and wallet chains; He believed it was all about how you are and your attitude about everything. You couldn't just become it overnight.. It was something that was in your soul, like you already were it. He speaks of how he seemed to be lured into everything. And also how people judge without knowing, and how he could see through people, love people, and find good in everyone.

I'm not telling you to read it. I'm not telling you not to read it. Some might argue it's an invasion of privacy, his privacy. That some things are better left alone, untouched, unjudged. Maybe so. Others might tell you to read it. What would it hurt? Maybe so. But if you really wanted to know Kurt, on a much more deeper level, more personal, I would say read it. But I'm not telling you, remember?

'Don't read this when I'm gone. Okay, I'm going to work now. Look through my thoughts, and figure me out'-Kurt Cobain

Indeed, Kurt. Indeed.

Rating:
Summary: Funding for a possible murderer...
Review: This book should not have been published... PERIOD. The reason why it was, is because Courtney Love is running low on cash and needed to release it so she can bring herself back into riches and glamour (not to mention, have enough cash handy to pay off the media to publish any fabrications and lies about her life and her past). Realize that buy buying this book you are supporting her and her lies. Kurt Cobain would never have wanted this book to have been published, as illustrated by a quote made directly by him below (which is ironically contained in the book itself!):

"Within the months between October 1991 through December 92, I have had four notebooks filled with two years worth of poetry and personal writing stolen....The most most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catty gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts. Ripped out of pages from my stay at hospitals and airplane rides, hotel stays, etc. I feel compelled to say "F*** you F*** you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you'll ever know.""
- Kurt Cobain (1992)

If you want to really support Kurt, visit http://www.cobaincase.com and buy the book "Love & Death" by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin instead.

Rating:
Summary: the cobain tradgedy
Review: i like kurt and all but as a die hard Nirvana fan it really proves that kurt was a very small and scared little boy inside (not in a bad way though). The way he was so angry at people it makes it so easy for someone to make it seem as though he commited suicide! I personally think he did NOT commit suicide and that Mrs. Courtney Love (a.k.a. B****) DID kill him with heroin and a shotgun wound to his mouth. He couldn't have shot himself because it was a shotgun and he had on steel toe boots and he couldn't reach the trigger! It would be easy for Courtney Love to impersonate his handwriting and than create a website about it but only a handful of people are with me. They did find new evidence that he had heroin in his system BEFORE he was shot! Stand tall and think of the MURDER of Kurt Cobain.REVENGE ON KURT!

Rating:
Summary: Buy it, dont buy it but this is what I thought.
Review: Its pretty intresting to read this book because it does give you alittle insight of Kurts mind. Kurt was a caring, funny, artistic, wounderful person and this book does give you an insight on that. This book contains cartoons, letters, and songs he was working on at the time, and just some thoughts Kurt had on different issues. If your looking for proof of his thoughts of a depressed and suicidal person, you wont find them in this book at all. If you really wanna know the truth, Kurt only mentions suicide twice and hes referring to the past thoughts he had on it. The way he wrote in the journals is like he was writing to the person reading them, like he knew someone would be going through them. The beginning passage gives you that thought because he writes, "Iam going to work, dont read my journals when Iam gone.....Ok, im leaving now, read my jorunals and try to figure me out". Its hard to say what his feelings would be about someone reading his journals. I didnt think it was right at first to read them and swore I would never get the book but, I got the book for a gift for Christmas. So, I decided sence I already had it, I guess I would read it. Im glad I did, its a nice look into the mind of Kurt and you wont really end up judging him at all but, understanding him some. All in all, its a good read so decide for yourself if you want to buy it or not.

Rating:
Summary: Decisions
Review: I've chosen not to read this book, for a number of reasons. Firstly, even if Kurt did intend his journals to be read, we'll never know, so its not right to publish them. Is it right to publish work without someones permission? No.
Also, these are not ALL Kurt's entries or writings, they've been editied, so can you trust them?
As a Nirvana fan, and a Kurt fan, I don't think it's right to read this, especially as theyre published by Courteney Love, (indirectly) and I don't tust her, her involvement with Kurt's death, or her involvement with the infamous note at all.
So make your own choice. Would Kurt want you to read these writings or not? I'l never know, so I'm going to give him the respect and not read them. Read his lyrics. Thats what he shared with the world, not necesarily his diary.

Rating:
Summary: Kinda sick though
Review: i hate the fact that they put together stuff that was really personal to Kurt. they really have no right to. any1 wud hate it if it happened to them. but i wont deny that the journal of sum1 like Kurt Cobain is definitely a matter of great interest & i wud also probly wanna get a sneek peek into it even tho it is 1 of the worst things to ever do. & i agree wit matt from california on 1 thing, diaries r the best pieces of literature.

Rating:
Summary: Yea this is how He didnt want it to be
Review: Yea Kurt Cobain Didnt want any one to read his Journals Because it was his life in his words, but no Courty Love has a few Millon put in front of her and she sells them if your a true NIRVANA fan and Kurt Cobain Lover then You wont read it, because this was his prsonal life that he didnt want any one to see, he just wanted to be left alone and to left to rest in peace, but no people go out and read his stuff that he didnt want you to see, and this probly not in the book but he once said if any one was to read his Journals it would like rapeing him like no other and just well this is a note the people who think they want to read it but beleave if Kurt soll how people read his Journals he would kill them, but this is my reason why i gave it a one

Rating:
Summary: Invasion of Piracy
Review: I thought the release of Kurt Cobain's Journals was a sick shot at a quick buck. Everything you can read in these journals is already in his songs. That should be enough. Kurt must be rolling over in his grave right now. Someone as private as he, being exploited to the fullest. Punching a dead man below the belt. How very tacky. I'm glad to see the media is still not afraid to push aside any decency for human beings,dead or alive. The release of K.C's Journals summed up in one word, "Sickening." Thanks for making me nauseous.

Rating:
Summary: I Wish I Never Read This
Review: I am giving it three stars not because of it being boring or uninteresting, which it wasn't but rather because I no longer have a hero. I used to believe Kurt was this amazing, creative artist but instead, all he was a manic-depressive, selfish drug addict. There was nothing amazing in the end about him.

I will always love his music, always will treasure how it touched me but after reading this.. I will not see him in the same light. It hurts knowing someone that I had respected was not what I had thought him to be.

I recommend this to music fans and to music historians. I wouldn't recommend it to someone that revered Kurt, simply because it will change your perspective, sadly.