hmm...well, aside from the fact that I don't understand the first half of your post (I'm guessing it has to do w/me being a newbie here...) let me say the following:
I love courtney and I honestly don't think Kurt is a hero. He was just a person, like everybody else, and he had problems, just like courtney.
and the fact that he was doing bad and she couldn't help him was maybe one of the reasons she took drugs. One reason, she had other problems aswell. And these problems are/were as much her fault as Kurt's were his fault.
Courtney was never a junkie??? correct me if I am wrong but to me a junkie is an addict. How many times has courtney been in rehab or doing detox??? I'd say more than once. And if you need to go to detox/rehab then you gotta have an additction/drug problem in the first place, otherwise you wouldn't need it.
and finally, I wish Courtney all the best and true happiness for her future, honestly, I do.
But it was not always everybody mistreating her, she has hurt and has been hurt. she left Norton. ok, maybe she thought he wasn't the love of her life, but that is surely not his fault and has nothing to do w/him treating her wrong.
and even if she has problems, I think there are tons of people trying to help her, like she and others were trying to help kurt, and like him, she doesn't want the help, or at least that is the feeling I get.

sorry for the rant, but as much as it annoys me when courtney is portrait as the devil and kurt as the saint, I find it equally annoying when this happens the other way round.

yeah i keep calling asking in different voices

since im so desperate, someone should scan/take photos of pages of the book we (i) haven't seen

local borders said its in transit atm, and it should be here by tuesday. another store said december 1st as their delivery was delayed. another store said the book release has been pushed back in the states and they dont know when they will get it [ don't they know who they are dealing with?!]

haha, that's what my store said too when i asked and called them.
i was all, "NO, IT WAS RELEASED ON THE 31ST!!! ....eh....i think...?"

haha i enquired about it once but they kept insisting i'm looking for Dirty Blonde, the novel by Lisa something. i figure i might get it off amazon.com and it just might work out to be cheaper.

" and have the morals and mentality of a cartoon character."

yes , well morals are bad anyway, it's values that you own!! rock on.

" Since the show was looking for "youngsters who have exceptional singing, dancing, or musical ability, with a marked degree of performance experience," they told her she did not qualify, and as a consolation prize, gave her a picture of Mickey Mouse."

blerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg. typical . always miss the greats, always miss the greats!

"Pictures of Love as a youth paint her as wide-eyed and innocent at first and later as a withdrawn punkette."

i think thats theh same with most of us alternativ kids!! the world is cruel!

"Although she hates to admit it to herself, she writes, "Rome was a huge cover-up," meaning that Cobain's Rohypnol-and-champagne overdose on March 4, 2004, was actually a suicide attempt. "I see it now. I just didn't want to see it then. Last night, I re-read the note he left in Rome. It's so obviously a suicide note, so f---ing obvious."

exactly what my gut feeling said. i just wouldnt except that courtney was made out to be it just because she was lost at the time busy with everything, and so who can blame her . it was total innocence all those "oh did i say that?" and everythign to those stupid kurt cobain investigators trying to nail her in over somethign she didn't do. iiii rekon kurt did it cause he woke upto the fact of how horrible he had been to courtney (empathy, remember).

- hahaha March 4, 2004 lol

"Without explanation, the book also includes an apology note addressed to both her husband and daughter, on Sunset Marquis letterhead: "I love you. Please forgive me. ... You are both too beautiful for me. I love you forever." ("Sunset Marquis," incidentally, is the name of one of the songs intended for her new album.) The two writings, positioned near photos of her curled up next to Cobain and of him kissing a baby Frances, prompts a newer note, scrawled across both pages in red ink: "I can't grow a new heart."

awww that makes me so sad. *hugs to courtney*.

exactly. you cant keep on feeling bad about kurt trying to kill himself.

kurt's ghost still really interests me but thats none of our business


let's wish courtney better days


PUT QUEEN SPLINTER BACK ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(buy her new album for every single reletive ! heehee! )

jesis christ, im just going to mail you a damn book! I cant believe you have to wait this long. Its not like it some spiral bound cook book by some toothless hillbilly fag in arkansas.

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don't you dare. just take some pics of pages i haven't seen, every day until the 1st of december that'll shut me up

it sort of is

which would explain her red hands.

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And white shit all over her face. I'm guessing crème fraiche and NOT cocaine. She never did drugs!!!

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HAHAHA...that's exactly what I was screaming at my friend who works at the biggest bookstore in finland telling me it hasn't been released yet. I was all hoochie mama waving my hand around, "na-ah grandma, talk to the hand. it was released 31st, I know my shit".

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to whoever complained because there's already another book called dirty blonde- the full title is "dirty blonde: the diaries of courtney love". even if it were called just dirty blonde, there's no problem with that. lots of books have the same title

the library i work in has about thirty different books called "business ethics" and around 90 called "business ethics: [another boring bit here]".

you don't just use a title to find a book, after all.

i got my copy today. it's going to take a long time to read it all.

i think they've missed a trick with it though. if they just added some biographical background to it, or explanations to certain sections it would be accessible to new people, new fans, fans of celebrities in general.

as it stands it will only be of interest to hardcore fans. people who haven't read a biography of her will be confused, people who've only heard one or two records probably won't find it that interesting either.

what i keep trying to get across to them is "no, it's not that book. it's dirty blonde: the diaries of courtney love" but obviously they didn't have it in stock yet and got very insistent that i was looking for dirty blonde the novel.

and this is borders we're talking about

oh dear. they must have some poor booksellers then

it should show that it's coming out soon on their system though, surely? i wonder whether giving them the ISBN (US 0865479593) would help.

or try amazon. it is cheaper too, although i don't like amazon much as they're driving bookstores out of business. i used to work for the biggest bookstore chain in the UK (waterstones) and they're not making anywhere near as much money as before. In fact I was supposed to get a permanent contract with them but they couldn't afford to keep me on and I had to leave after only 4 months. Imagine how bad it is for the little guys!

speaking of waterstones, actually they've knocked some money off the RRP, it's 15.99 at the moment. I reckon by christmas it'll either be half price or in the 3 for 2 offer.

i just ordered from amazon. AUD$58.. pfft. i can only hope it comes before christmas and borders slashes the price so low it makes me feel stupid about spending so much on a courtney love memoir.

just out of curiosity, i googled waterstones and ironically, amazon.co.uk was the third entry that came up.

pre-order on amazon it was £10.

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yeah i only paided 10 pounds for mine................what a bargain!!

I love it! It's actually a lot better than I expected.

how much was the postage?

i'd still rather support my ex employers and stop people losing their jobs in bookshops, which are cool places to work