Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

by Courtney Love

Book Overview

A multi-textual memoir chronicling the life of one of our most potent pop icons Groundbreaking rock musician. Award-winning actress. Perceptive songwriter and author. Mother. Wife of a rock god.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330445464
• ISBN13: 9780330445467
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It's awesome.

The book is absolutely great and I received it with no problem. Courtney Love is a rock goddess and with this book you can follow her life from a young age to the Hole era. You can really get inside Courtney's head and looks at life through her eyes. The poems and songs are beautiful.

Amazing Book for all fan's of Hole & Courtney Love!!!!!!

This is with a doubt, one of the coolest Coffee Table books out there. It's a pick-up Guilty Pleasure type of book. The notes/poems in her hand writing is very cool. To see her personal thoughts through her eyes is a Bonus! Allot of pics most fan's never seen. Just a all-around awesome book that isn't super long and drawn out. You walk away with a sense you've seen the Brilliance and the madness of this Under-Rated Talent! I Highly recommend this book to all Rock fans. 10/10

Best source for true fans

If you are a fan of Courtney, or just like her ability, this is the best source on her. It is by her, not what is said about her. I found it excellent and like her even more after reading her book. Courtney, you rock...

Very nice indeed

I was really pleasantly surprised when I opened this book! I expected it to be her biography in full, but instead it's her diary entries laid out in a very nice, girlie way. Lots of pink and flowers and clippings. It really gives an insight to her life and what she thinks. I found it very interesting that on one of the pages she writes that she doesn't have any friends and that she feels like she don't even has any friends in her own band. She must feel so alienated. God what a life. In many ways I think that her life (after reading the CL book by Poppy Z Brite) looks very much like Nancy Spungen's. She included her own suicide note, but not Kurt's suicide note to her. I also find it very fascinating to look at the pictures, esp the page with all black and white photos of her and Kurt posing. He must have been one unhappy guy. His smile seemed forced in every shot. After reading one of the books about Kurt Cobain I realise that he was probably depressed most of his life. But going back to Courtney: it's a very nice book and you can look at it for ages. It seems like she loves her daughter very much, there are sweet little notes about Frances in there, probably what keeps her going. This is a great book.

Awesome design, soul-baring piece of her heart

First of all, don't buy, read or review books about people you despise, hate etc. That is simply stupid! For fans, this is a goldmine, and if you read carefully, between the pictures, the collages, the icons, and the colors there is a wounded soul, probably beyond repair. And there is much, much more that she would not reveal, leaving it to the frankly boring and moralistic dissection of tabloids, gossip web sites, and haters everywhere. She must be past caring by now. This is a bold, tough, courageous woman, but also somebody who should have received the love, care and nurturing she craved at the right time. So she had the courage to look in all the wrong places, and she plunged deep in, while most of the public could only sit there and point fingers. The hypocrites, the prudes, the ones who accuse (still! Hello? Could you get OVER it, please?) her of getting away with murder. Yesterday I met Courtney Love in person at a book signing. She is definitely clean, still very beautiful, funny, witty. You would never tell that she had the life she had. It's not just whatever makeup and plastic surgery, she might have had: it's the vibe she gives out, her lack of pretension, her being real, no matter how much her appearance or style might have changed. Those are costumes. She is more than a survivor, she is unbreakable! And I listened to the new material...it is really lived, sad, and raw, much like the ballads of Marianne Faithfull, who, despite battling many of the same demons, was never obstracized and considered "uncool" like Courtney. To those who want "something new"...This is what she was ready to share, and we should accept her limits. If you look closely, it is a lot. I wish her the very best. We need more people who, like Courtney, have the courage of admitting their mistakes, their pain, their failures and despair, suffering years of public derision and humiliation, but who can pick up the pieces raise from their ashes, and hold their head high, rather than the respectable,honorable, fair and balanced filth that we see around us every day.