Product Description
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe'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 Mötley Crüe 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.
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 Mature audience only
I bought this book for my students in high school. I had seen some of them reading it and they recommended it. I teach Resource English and I have some at-risk students would could benefit from his rough road through Heroin. The language is very mature though and I needed to be selective on who I thought would appreciate the book and not get lost in the language.
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 Awesome book ( bunny3452_ )
this is as close as it gets to a rock star junkies life... aMazing Book
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Excellent Book!!!!!!!
I bought this book for my husband who is a big Motley Crue fan and he could not put the book down. I decided to buy it for him because it was very hard to get it from the local library. He read the book in a week!
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AMAZING
I read this book in one afternoon. Probably one of the best books I have ever read. Buy it you wont be sorry especially if you are a Crue fan!!!! Hardcore, Honest and In your face...Cudos to Nikki and his willingess to share
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One of the most powerful books I've ever read......
I've been a huge Motley Crue fan for many, many years. The very first time I heard Nikki Sixx was releasing The Heroin Diairies, I thought it was just another tall tale of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll excess. I had heard many stories of Motley Crue's debauchery and excesses over the years, and knew Nikki had overdosed and was actually pronounced dead at one point.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Upon reading this book, I found a much more deeper and complicated series of events led to Nikki's descent into depression and drug fueled madness. His issues of abandonment caused by his father leaving him at a very young age, and being unwanted by his mother and sent to live with his grandparents are all told here with brutal honesty.
Told through his journal entries written in notebooks and scraps of paper, with commentary from bandmates, family members, an ex-lover, and those who were closest to Nikki during the 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls tour, including Sixx himself, this book will leave you laughing, crying, and with your jaw on the floor.
It took and incredible amount of courage for Nikki Sixx to bare his soul and expose his severe depression, self-loathing and drug addiction in this book.
You don't have to be a Motley Crue fan, or even a rock-n-roll fan to feel the impact of this book. It is a bare bones story of a man who had it all-money, success, girls, seemingly everything, only to have his life spiral completely out of control, all the way to rock bottom. He even talks of how the more famous he became, the more he hated himself.
Instead of becoming another Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, or Sid Vicious, Nikki eventually chose the recovery path and turned his life around.
I think this book is a huge inspiration to anyone going through difficult times, be it drug abuse, childhood issues, and/or depression. People can follow Sixx's lead and know that there is hope and a way out. Someone told Nikki that a book like this isn't very rock-n-roll, he bsically told that person where to go. Sixx has always done things his way, and he makes recovery and sobriety VERY rock-n-roll!
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