If You Read You Will Judge is a research paper that was composed on Kurt Cobain's musical talent and acheivements rather than his suicide.

If You Read You Will Judge:

"Don't read my diary when I'm gone. Ok, I'm going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read my diary. Look through my things and figure me out", said Kurt Cobain on the front page of his journal. Cobain's journals kept over a period of years in spiral notebooks have been published. This collection gives readers an insight into to the mind of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana. On April 8, 1994 Cobain was found dead in the greenhouse of his Seattle home. One of Kurt Cobain's fans said that he believes that the publication of Cobain's journals is wrong, but he will probably read it just like all of the other fascinated fans. "It is expected to expand beliefs that Kurt Cobain was a broken, insecure genius, that he took a fatal way out because that peculiar genius blinded him to any other solution, and that his legacy can't be any better protected than Lennon's or Hendrix's" (Wener, K4273) Many of Cobain's fans and critics rush bookstores to buy his journals in hopes to read between the lines and know what Cobain was really thinking.

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Kurt Cobain: About a Son

Even before his death fans spent countless hours trying to read between the lines of his lyrics. It was like trying to put one puzzle together that was in a stack of a thousand other puzzles. You just couldn't find pieces that both matched colors and fit together. Cobain's drug obsessed world and chronic health problems gave him a talent and insight that even he could have never imagined. The media as only interested in Cobain's "early 90's Rock Style life." Cobain was constantly trying to avoid the media questions and remarks about his drug addiction and sexuality. Questions were raised...