Description: "The year's most fascinating, heart-breaking rock book."- Rolling Stone "An engrossing collection of clues."- Entertainment Weekly "His words kick and scream."- Chicago Daily Herald "Compelling."- Seattle Times "No editing, no footnotes: The Nirvana singer's Journals is the year's most fascinating, heartbreaking rock book."- Rolling Stone Magazine "Especially riveting."- The Observer Magazine "Compelling reading...a look into the creative process of one of rock's true artists."- The Seattle Times "The daily diary of an American dream-and nightmare...Beneath all the layers of irony and sarcasm and humor and stoner realism, Cobain had a gift for sincerity, which is everywhere evident in his journals...The book is swarming with life, and it's irresistible to anyone who cares about the music."- New York Magazine "Illuminating...charming...we catch glimpses of Cobain's wry, mischievous humor."- Newsday "Our most elaborate first-hand evidence of the inner life of one of rock's most important figures."- New York Daily News "Laced with humor and horror...wrenchingly candid."- LA Times "Simple and plain, Kurt Cobain was a fuckin' genius... Journals may become his most enduring body of work. If Cobain's life was a movie, Journals is the director's cut, the musings and contemplations of a mad genius. More than that, these passages are some of the most interesting reading I've come across in years, and I boldly predict they will stand the immeasurable test of time... Journals , better than any biography could hope to be, will make essential reading for anyone looking to understand the 1990s' most important pop star."- Salon.com "It displays the formative stages of a man whose deeply felt empathy became something close to a curse...This remarkable document finally stands as one last message from the saddest teenager in the world, hiding his diary in a drawer near an easy-to-find key."- Entertainment Weekly "Fascinating and often charming."- New York Post "I heard Cobain's voice in my head as I read his journals."- Telegraph "How could the intimate diaries of one of rock's most memorable and credible icons be anything less than page-turningly compulsive'...The hype is deserved. You won't be disappointed."- The Zone "These hand-written fragments from a life say more than any biography would or could...Cobain was a man who struggled so hard for definition, it seems fitting that, even after death, he should be allowed to speak for himself."- Evening Standard "Facsimile pages-complete with sketches, margin scribbles, and handwriting in various states of dishevelment-argue for never again typesetting a diary."- MOJO

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