This book was one that I was very interested in reading and it kept my interest throughout the entire thing. I was mostly interested because I am a fan of Kurt Cobain's music and I didn't know the story of his life and his death. I, like most people was under the assumption that Kurt Cobain's death was an open and shut case of suicide as it was reported. But this book explores different options and tells the story from some different people's views. I found these views to be very eye opening. Not only was it interesting but it is also a highly controversial book. Many people did not want this book to be published because it reveals things about people that are less than glamorous.
             The book starts out by sharing the background of Kurt Cobain and his future wife Courtney Love. Kurt did not have a happy childhood. He didn't have a steady family life as he bounced around between different relatives and friends, and even slept under a local bridge some nights.
             "Cobain was for most his childhood a sickly bronchitic child. Matters were made worse when Cobain's parent's divorced when he was seven and by his own account Cobain said he never felt loved or secure again. He became increasingly difficult, anti-social, and withdrawn after his parent's divorce. Cobain later said that his parent's traumatic split fueled a lot of the anguish in Nirvana's music"(17). This quote from the book shows how Kurt's family difficulties effected his life in many ways, and would continue to haunt him his entire life. He never really found himself as an adolescent, he was the kid that was always picked on and called a queer. It wasn't until he moved out of his home town of Aberdeen, Washington to a small town near Seattle that he began to take off as a musician. He formed, and reformed a series of bands while in Seattle, before Nirvana came to be in 1986. Nirvana was an uneasy alliance between Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and eventual...