- ISBN13: 9780743486286
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Product Description
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, there wasn’t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn’t do. He spent days – sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers – in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki’s journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions. Here, Nikki shares those diary entries – some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre – and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom – and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.
#1 by Billy Sugarfix on November 9, 2009 - 3:33 pm
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The idioticly melodramatic title to this book says it all. Mr. Sixx is just as shallow as the songs he writes. He should have the sense to know that calling your memoir “The Heroin Diaries” is a glorification of the drug that will inevitably lead others to try it. The old get addicted and become a hero when you’ve cleaned up routine is tired and outdated. This book sucks, just like his drumming and his band.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by D. Meyer on November 9, 2009 - 5:38 pm
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The language was so horrible I had my husband burn the book. I wish I had never purchased it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Breaking Sunrise on November 9, 2009 - 6:39 pm
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Seems that person was proud to have been already in recovery himself.
The book and or that lifestyle is nothing to as I felt that reviewer did
at least if not brag about similar problems and as if he was thrilled to
copy deadly habits! I was in a band and would never of wanted to relate
such abuse or be proud or brag as he, the reviewer, sounded to “follow the leader” so to speak! Sad book and admitted the damage but nothing to be proud of. And certainly, I would hope NiKKi Sixx would agree that he would not want his fans to live such self debasing and life threating habits. Be responsible for your decisions and concious of your choices to avoid becoming powerless over your self control. Again, I say I do not believe that was the books intention at all to hear a new musician was proud of or relating to it as maybe cool already to have been in recovery and reviewer… ( Hope you do not read again)
Rock and Roll careers certainly does not a drug addict make! That is a personal decision and a problem wide spread. Good Luck. Your review made me want to give o stars!
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Mark Surfas on November 9, 2009 - 7:33 pm
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Read this if you want to spend a few hundred pages reading about heroin and cocaine abuse. While I expected a fair amount of drug reference due to the book title I was not prepared for the entire book to chronicle every injection, snort and smoke of a rockstar junkie. The book is most entertaining when discussing the music industry, life on the road and anecdotes about other bands and people in the business. Unfortunately this should have been more of this book. I’d pass this one up unless you are looking for information on just how excessive and wasteful drug users can be. One positive I can drum up is that mr. sixx is brutally honest regarding himself and those around him – which makes his observations on situations and people believable and interesting – again should have been more of this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by V. Rixford on November 9, 2009 - 8:56 pm
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this is the worst book i’ve ever read. it’s nikki whining about his drug abuse, which he did by choice, page after page. i used to think motley crue was a bad a** bunch of hardcore guys, now i realize the “craziest” guy in the group was a complaining whimp. i would hate to read the other members “memoirs”.
Rating: 1 / 5
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