The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by Nikki Sixx
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Author: Nikki SixxEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Book Review: One of the most powerful books I've ever read......
Summary: 5 Stars
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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