HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN / CROSS, CHARLES [Paperback] Cross, Charles R. Paperback – 2 April 2019

Awesome book. Everything about the biggest sensation of rock and roll and pop.#kurt

I didn't expect to enjoy a book about a doomed musician so much. Kurt Cobain coped with his emotionally neglectful childhood using his talent and ingenuity, culminating in a brief, brilliant career. Eventually the deprivation and confusion won, but the author makes the journey fascinating, compassionate, and even amusing at times. An outstanding book.

Essa biografia é fantástica. A leitura é leve a despeito da densidade de informações contidas no livro. Recomendo.

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I enjoyed reading this book. I never felt like Cross meandered in random directions or went on tangents about unrelated material; there is a fluid progression chronicling Cobain's life from beginning to end. Cross writes well and the flow of the story is excellent. I would have liked more detail about what went into the making of each album - more about the process - but this is a biography of Kurt Cobain, not a detailed history of every facet of the band.To address some of the criticisms:- Some lines are cliché: there is some of that here and there, but these instances are few and far between and they aren't a distraction. I feel that Cross's focus on flow/progression outweighs these complaints by miles.- Courtney Love provided a lot of the info: What is fact versus revisionist history? Sure, Cross didn't know Kurt personally on such a high level, so he gets his information from around 400 interviews, plus Kurt's journals, taped interviews and album material. I am not in the conspiracy-theory camp. It's not any different than an author today writing about a dead president they weren't alive to meet. As with any biography, or even autobiography, you have to determine for yourself what is true or not true. I wasn't there, and Kurt's not around to ask.- The ending chapter(s): There is definitely some artistic license Cross used in describing those events. It's unfortunate and off-putting. Only Kurt knows exactly what he was doing and thinking. I really had to think about how much that impacted the rest of the book, but it's really only those chapters that seem to make such a leap. That's not to defend Cross for writing it that way, as it could've been written differently, but reading this now so long after Cobain's death, I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't change the actual outcome of his final decision.

I’ve been a Nirvana fan for a long time but was reluctant to read this biography of someone I admire. I have read a different unauthorised biography and Kurt came across as someone who whines lots and was in no way near as in-depth as this.This one is very detailed and sums up the life of Kurt from the beginning to his unfortunate end.The book has been well researched with those that knew Kurt, the narrative has been well written and progresses along well making it very easy to read. Chapters are well played out and are from periods of time.Overall the book is well written, researched and arranged.