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I actually really liked this read. It gives you insight to a person that people gossip about constantly and you kinda get why she has the who cares attitude she does
I'm going to try to remember all the books I read and add them here, despite how I may now feel about having spent several hours of my life reading them. In high school I thought Courtney Love was kind of cool. She married Kurt Cobain after all and I was into him, so I figured I better be into her, too. I'm sure at the time I thought the book was interesting, but now its one of those ones you kind of regret owning. It was a birthday gift, so at least I can honestly say I didn't pay for it. But I...
I read this book when it first came out. Poppy was my favorite horror author and Courtney was one of my favorite musicians. I thought I was tough shit (a riot grrrl even)... and my younger self loved this book.
When you combine one my favourite authors with one of my favourite rock stars. The end result is a well written, thoughtful, sympathetic and very human portrayal of a polarising woman. Brite does not make excuses for Love nor demonises her. She is just human. Nothing more, nothing less.
I've always been fascinated by Courtney Love, and I'm a fan of Poppy Z. Brite, so when I saw this (a NUMBER of years ago, I think the book was published in 1997 or 1998, just at the time that Courtney had gone big-time in "The People vs. Larry Flynt") I picked it up, and just found it while looking for something light to read.An interesting portrait of a very ambitious woman, and if even HALF of her stories are true (and Brite seems to have done a fair bit of research) then Love and lived quite
stare at the cover photograph long enough and eventually youll see a black widow spider
It's hard to know whether Poppy Brite is a magnificent writer or Courtney Love- the myth, the legend and the disaster is such a compelling individual that it doesn't need much work. What I know for certain is I couldn't put this book down. I was fascinated by this woman. The way she wrote, the way she cataloged her life, the amazing things she did. This is the quintessential Courtney Love and grunge rock biography.
Yeah. I totally just gave this 4 stars. Here's a fun fact about me: I loved Hole all through high school. Four years of intense love. I read this in one night- Easter Eve- my sophomore year which was when I was at the peak of of my fangirlishness. I cannot be sure if it was just that I would have loved any fairly positive or sympathetic portrait of Courtney Love or if it was just a really enjoyable biography of a famous gal. I think the writing seemed trustworthy and casual which is really what
I'm a huge Hole and Courtney Love fan so of course I had to read this. I think Poppy Z. Brite did a great job describing Courtney's life from her troubled early beginnings to her famed career. I think many people give Courtney trouble because she is a woman and she happened to be Kurt Cobain's wife. Of course she is going to be vilified and demonized. I think Courtney is a strong fearless female and society as a whole is afraid of that because they want women to be mute and not complain. That's
It's been many years since I read this, but I recall the author described an incident where Courtney Love was in her hotel room, put on lingerie, and either wrote a note to Roz Rezabek, or read a note from him that was left for her (I forget which), and then attempted suicide. The note is quoted in the book: "You were right, I suppose, in keeping your distance. I was too intent on self-fulfillment, and rather crude about it, with all my harlequinade and conscious manipulation of your pity." Whet...
This is like a book version of those cheap unauthorised bio's you see on the biography channel. You know the ones that use the same 6 photo's over and over again, use bad background studio muzac that kind of sound a bit like the subjects music genre(but not at all really) and pads out about 10 mins of facts and interview snipets with their nextdoor neighbours best friends taxi driver (who knew the 'real' person behind the image beacuse they drove them to the casino once in 1985)by repeating them...
Why did I even read this?
I'm not a fan of Courtney Love. Not in the shady way of meaning I dislike her, just that I was too young to get into grunge. I've listened to both Hole and Nirvana, and thought they were ok, but just ok. But I am interested in her story, so when my friend was clearing out his books this was one of the ones I picked up. I've read Poppy Z. Brite once before, Drawing Blood, and really enjoyed that so I knew this story was in safe hands. This book is not written to tear Courtney Love down, but equal...
Die hard fan of Hole and indeed her husband's big deal of a band. Not a bad book for a fan of C.L. If you've watched Behind The Music and are an owner of The Diaries Of Courtney Love, there will be plenty of things you were already aware of, which was why it took me so long to get around to reading this bio.Worth buying for the anecdotes about Courtney's troubled and certainly colourful early life as well as an insight into the relationship between her and her parents and her famous husband. Fro...
I read this when I was 15. Can't remember why. I guess I thought Courtney might share some of my angst. Turns out she's just a wackadoo.
I read this in my teens when I was into Hole and my friends were into Poppy Z Brite.The goodreads blurb is spot-on!
I remember buying this used at a college book store not long after it came out. The older guy loved me. Respected my taste. I was 19 and reading strictly LITERATURE. Dostoevsky and Sarte and Kafka, and Hemingway, etc. Then one day I appeared eagerly at the guy’s desk at the front of the store with this book in my hands, haha. A light faded from his eyes. I wasn’t that much of a grunge kid. I loved experimental punk and and rock. i owned great glitter albums. I’d gotten into the Steve Albini stuf...
I picked this up on a whim while working at Half-Price Books. I wasn't the least bit sorry, despite having never read any Brite or really even caring much about Courtney Love.
I guess Courtney loves to be inscrutably ostentatious--and hunting down Poppy Z. Brite to write her "unauthorized" biography is yet another instance. I will always love her though, stand by her as an idol. I'm endlessly fascinated by both Courtney and Kurt. I think they were both hugely intelligent individuals--despite the drugs--and it is amazing how they were compelled, perhaps helplessly, to take on these larger-than-life roles. Kurt cast himself as Christ, the ever-suffering son and martyr,
One of the best Courtnet Love biographys ever!