The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Book Review: Brutally Real
Summary: 5 Stars
When I ordered this book I expected a narrative story about a drugged up rock star...but I found a collection of very real and gruesome diary entries that blew my mind. Nikki Sixx has lived a life that most of us can't even imagine exists...it's almost unreal and at the same time too real and scary. I LOVED IT.Book Review: Brilliant and riveting
Summary: 5 Stars
As a public defender, I thought I understood addiction. I have seen what happens to good people who make bad decisions. It is truly a miracle that Mr. Sixx is alive and not dead or in prison. I too am a fan and bought the soundtrack which is amazing and brilliant. The reading and listening are beautiful, but painful. Listen to "girl with the golden eyes" and you will hear the most beautiful melody, Michael james' voice is amazing, and lyrically, some of the most devastating words ever written. While the substance is "behind the music" style, the texture is rough, these are his words and are real. Hit you between the eyes real. Makes you cry and your heart ache real. Leaves you reeling when its over real. How can a brilliant, talented, gifted, rich successful rock star end up naked and alone on Christmas "watching my holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon?" Nikki does not hold back or glamorize his drug use. It is a long harsh road to hell. "It takes a funeral to make you feel alive." Fortunately he found his way back to gift us all with the blessing of understanding."Cross your heart and hope that I don't die." Only through the understanding and treatment of addiction can we solve many social problems. Mr. Sixx, you are an activist, a Martin Luther King, and a Gandhi, and you probably don't even know it yet. Thank you for this gift. I finally get what addiction is.Book Review: Idolized and Empathized
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the book and finished it in 2 days. Throughout the 80's, I idolized this man and his music, band, image, etc. but I was clueless who this person actually was. This book reveals so much that longtime Motley Crue fans probably didn't understand. I think you have to be interested in what this man has to say to like his book. It's a roller coaster journey and it's often mentally draining. After you read this book, which mainly represents one year in his life, you may feel like you need to sleep for a week (and you'll surely stock up on toilet paper). I think Nikki Sixx is creatively brilliant and artistically gifted but above all, he's destined to be alive and share his story (aka one lucky s.o.b.). I was engrossed as I read and I rooted for him as though he really was a HERO drowning in heroin. I found myself empathizing with his struggle and thanking the powers that be for my own drug free life. This is not a story to enjoy like a summer romance, but it's a story to be awakened by. It opens your eyes, sickens your stomach then makes you laugh. And I surely will forever remain a fan.Book Review: Can't put the book down
Summary: 5 Stars
I read a few reviews and I was a little put off by what I've read and say that I don't agree with some of the posted reviewers. I bought the book on Tues and I'm halfway through it and can't seem to put it down. I look forward to reading this book any chance I can get. Although I have never had any substance abuse problems in my life so far, I can relate to the childhood pains that Nikki speaks of. I don't believe that Nikki is playing the victim or trying to come off as a victim to readers; he is only pointing out the importance of how childhood hurts can rear its ugly head at times when your are experiencing new hurt and if we don't deal with our past hurts in a professional manner (seeking help, guidance, counseling, etc.) it can come up as rage and/or self destructive behavior. Yes, we can push it out of our minds and forgot about things for months, years; yet when past painful memories surface in combination w/ current hurts you now have as he points out a "accumulative" effect which is anger, rage, hurt, pain, and self-destructive behaviors as he writes about in his "Heroin Diaries". So far Nikki I understand ya.
I think he should come out with a new book about how the record industry is as he and is "nemesis" put it "slavery." Remember when Prince would perform his concerts with the word "SLAVE" written on his cheek? Strange how Prince's name to me is now associated with Nikki.
Book Review: Life inside the teenage wasteland
Summary: 4 Stars
There's an authentic hallowness to this read that forced me to sit up and take full notice. Nikki Stixx pulls no punches here in this un-put-downable life in the dead-zone. With all the `addict' memoirs out there these days, this one is the real deal. (Reminds me of the classic Jon Carroll read of the same ilk). What compelled me here was the eerie way Sixx talks to his diary, almost strokes it, at times, and includes `apologies' for not keeping up with the commitment Sixx seemed to set for himself in, at least, being true to this task. I think this could be excellent required reading for young people, especially. (I was in college when I became a huge fan of the band).