Journals by Kurt Cobain Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Journals
Book Review: AWESOME!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is simply great. I'm very impressed with its quality and have learned a lot about this iconic figure by reading Kurt's entries. I hope everyone picks up a copy! = )Book Review: FEELS LIKE BEING NOSEY.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book. Reading it feels like you've happened upon the diary of someone you know while they are not at home and you have decided to be nosey and read it while they are gone. I love the way everything is just scanned picturs of pages from the journals.Book Review: Just a nice collection
Summary: 5 Stars
It's fun to flip these pages. You'll see a lot of writing, less of art. There is no story telling or even coherence in this published work. Really cool to own, sometimes you'll get a glimpse of what was going on in his mind.Book Review: Not a revelation
Summary: 2 Stars
I was expecting to get some sort of mystical revelation from this book, to get really deep into the psyche of Kurt Cobain, to see the tortured artist at his most artistically tortured. Unfortunately, I was let down.
This book is just a smattering of photoscans from Kurt Cobain's various journals he kept throughout the years. It is by no means complete or even coherent in it's selection of material. The book jumps around from here to there, giving random short stories, drawings, lyrics, ideas for recording, letters to various people, etc., etc. And I will admit, some of it is interesting to read, especially during the years where Nirvana was at it's peak of popularity. But it's not satisfying; in fact, I found it frustrating. Everything is so jumpy and choppy that you can't really appreciate the context of the journal entry, and much of the time it's so random that even if you did know the context, it wouldn't help much. I'll give the book one thing, though: it is roughly in chronological order. Even so, it's hard to follow at times.
I would have liked to have seen a book more in the vein of other artist's journals, where you get a more complete selection of journal entries. I don't feel as though I learned anything about Kurt Cobain, or got any insight into his art, or sensed any of his deepening depression as he neared his death. If I'm going to read an artist's journals, it's to come away with a revelation about them as artists and as people. "Journals" offers little, I think. It is so heavily selective with what it includes that it only gives very small glimpses into Kurt's mind. If you want to read it, I would suggest getting it from the library first, just to see what you think.
I hope a more comprehensive (and hopefully typed) collection of Kurt Cobain's journals come out one day, so that we can get a really clear view of Kurt's creative genius and emotional turmoil at work.
Book Review: The Betrayal of a Legend...
Summary: 1 Stars
I was browsing around Half Price books today, and i was orginally tryin to find a CD, but when i couldnt find one i wanted, i was on my way out the door when i glanced out of the corner of my eye and saw "Journals" sitting on top of a table on display for 9.99. At first i felt intrigued, so i picked it up and began thumbing through it, thats when the stomach ache began. I could not believe that something of this nature was published. These are photo copied pages of the late great Kurt Cobain's PERSONAL journal. Now, if you are a true fan of Nirvana, or Kurt...then YOU KNOW that it is wrong to read this material. Even though, we do not know what happends in the after-life, and we dont know if Kurt is truly at peace and has reached complete well...Nirvana.
If so, i dont think he would mind if you read this...but the Kur"D"t Cobain we all know, would have NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have let this material be published, and if he is the same man in spirt form as he was on Earth, to read this book is to go against everything he ever stood for,
I actually bought this book. and i have thumbed through it only a couple of times, and i apoligize for my own curiosity.
Another reason i bought this book, was simply to get it off the shelf and shelter it from every person who walked into the store, and picked it up for a quick look.
I have been a Nirvana fan since day 1, and i may thumb through this book from time to time, but i will never exploit this and show it to people like a new shirt, and i will not be reading this from front to back.
I myself am a musician, and i have notebooks along the same lines as this, i will have lyrics written on one page and a grocery list on another, and a list of bills i have to pay on another, and notes to my girlfriend to call me at work, while she reminds me to take out the trash.
I WOULD NOT WANT MY NOTEBOOKS PUBLISHED FOR PEOPLES AMUSEMENT,
and with the band im in, we ARE tryin to be famous, and in the spotlight, Kurt Did Not.
Once again, for this to be published is to go against everything Kurt Cobain stood for.
If you buy this book, take care of it, and keep in mind everything i just wrote. Dont buy it cause you think its "COOL"
Buy it for the right reasons.
I apoligize Kurt.
A TRUE FAN,
MIC.
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