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Courtney
Love: The Real Story (Simon
and Schuster 1997)
By
Poppy Z. Brite
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Reviewed
by Geneva World
It started
with a meeting of seafood gumbo, a chatty tourist, long with a couch-hidden
Poppy eyeshadow and ended with the first unbiased Courtney Love biography.
Going on three years, the real story is finally catching up to fans and
enemies as their new Love Bible, replacing Queen of Noise by Melissa
Rossi and Come as You Are by Michael Azerrad.
Whether you
hate her or love her, you'll find all the fodder you need to prove your
case. A warning though, you may find yourself a great deal more sympathetic
to this amazing woman. Through the book you will enter Love's life at
conception, read through multiple homes and disappointments, adventure in
foreign countries, movie parts, rock star rolls, widowhood and motherhood.
You will close the book looking to be a bit more productive in your life.
The media
has, in Brite's words, "[Had Courtney] dissected, analyzed and stitched
back up again." The real story leaves out a typical timeline structure
and opts to piece together a photo album of words (pictures included). With
multiple of rich interviews with family, friends, lovers and foes, Brite
help shows you the colorful human being Love is without being redundant. We
all know about Courtney Love's hippie upbringing, youth homes, drug abuse,
rock stardom and Kurt Cobain. We already know she liked to smear her
lipstick and scream while now choosing to put on Versace and present movie
awards. Most of us would still bet she'd run Mary Lou Lord down with her
shoe if given the chance again. But with our useless talk and gossip, we
forget she was just a girl who wrote poetry and wanted to be famous. She got
there like no other and this is her story.
