This is a treatise on my favourite Nirvana album, which is also their last one. It shows Cobain as a considerate and very thoughtful person, who handled almost every aspect of Nirvana, from writing the songs to constructing the videos and dealing with marketing.

This is not a tell-tale tattler tome, but a sincere delving into the material. Steve Albini, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love and others are interviewed about aspects that concern the album. Gaar has a lot of insight into the band, having helped out with collating "With The Lights Out" - the big box with Nirvana material that popped up circa the time of the black compilation album - and among other things shows the evolution of songs from the lyrics to how they were recorded and re-recorded, and, for example, how Cobain rescued a track from a very weird and bad guitar solo, having taken in feedback. He doesn't seem to have been a diva, rather a great punk feminist.

All in all: a very worthwhile dive into the world of Nirvana during the early 1990s up till Cobain's suicide. If you're into music and details around this recording, this is a clear, small 4/5-grade book.