Refinished Mo 2/28/22
I noticed this book on the shelf and read it when I was half way through 'WALDEN TWO'. Finished the bio, and back to BF Skinner.
I first finished the book on Sa 12/14/02 and according to the note on the flyleaf that "...will rent 'THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT'.
And after this reading, I will get that film from Netflix. Apparently this was Love's best performance of her life.
The only problem with the book is that it was written in 1997 and a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then.
Biggest New Fact: Courtney's mother was part of the Bausch optical fortune and Courtney had an inheritance.
From the book's page at Amazon:
"Poppy Z. Brite, better known for her punk-gothic horror and dreadful taste in clothing (the jacket photo shows her looking like a reject from a 1985 audition for a Cure video) here gets her hands on something much scarier than club-hopping vampires: the life of Courtney Love. Born Love Michelle Harrison, Courtney's childhood combines the worst of doped-up hippie parenting with her innate autism to produce a life that could only lead to rock-and-roll stardom. Starting with her first acid trip at age 4, administered by her father, a paragon of parental responsibility, Courtney went on to four name changes, two years in juvenile detention, a trip to Japan courtesy of a white slave ring, living with gloom rockers in Liverpool, and a melange of drugs and sexual experiments all prior to leaving her teens. This makes for quite the page-turner--in a guilty sort of way and in spite of Poppy Z.'s occasionally cutesy-teen prose: "Courtney Love has always been surrounded by chaos, triumph, pain, and glamour." Still, in spite of the taboo of reading celebrity bios, this one stands out because of the truly odd and, perhaps, innovative life of its subject. Not simply a rock-and-roll musical bedrooms romp, Love's life is far enough out of the mainstream, or even the alternate streams, to offer challenges to many of the values we take for granted in living our lives. Things such as safety, stability, and even hygiene are thrown out the window in a life that reads like the outsider fiction of Hesse or Kerouac, only with more electric guitars."
On Tuesday morning, March 1st, 2022, the next morning I learned about who the author was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Z._Brite
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