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Loading... The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Starby Nikki Sixx
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book will make you look at your life differently, and show you how even in the worst situations, you can turn yourself around. Recommended to anyone, really. Well written and edited. I loved it, and wished it didn't end so soon :) (  )1   RevrendJimmy | Aug 27, 2009 |  Reading this book is about as close as you can come to a drug addiction without actually having walked that path. The book itself is addicting and very, very dark. Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue are some of the most notorious rockers of all time and they paid the price dearly. At the height of their fame in the mid-late eighties, Nikki Sixx was suffering from a debilitating addiction to cocaine and heroin, complete with paranoia and hallucinations. It occurred to him at the time, to keep a diary of his battles with his addiction. This book offers a uniquely honest look into the mind of an addict to a degree that can never be accomplished in a retrospective memoir. What Nikki has been through is shocking and it is even more shocking that's he's come out the other side and is still rocking. ( ) go_devils006 | Jul 9, 2009 | i thought this book was great. i think that it was amazing because nikki wasn't afraid to tell his story. i think that this book does a great job at explaining the hell that he was going through and he can be an inspiration to others. this book has a strong message ans some of the images that it gives you may be disturbing but he hides nothing. its great hearing one of the people that you admire went through this and acually hearing thier story and knowing that they are clean now and that its possible. all of his personal stories were great some made me laugh. and not only is there the personal stories from him but there are other peoples opinions of him and what they thought of him. ( ) -AlyssaE- | May 24, 2009 | LOVED IT!!!! This book was ever amazing. I loved the everything from the format of the book to the actual text. You can have mommy and daddy tell you "dont do drugs, itll mess your life up" all you want but you can see in this book what really happens when you play with drugs, unfortunately for Jim Morrison he didnt live to tell his tale and fend off his addiction but nikki did, and then was coourageous enough to tell the world, "yes i fucked up, and this is what happened, but i fixed it, it CAN be done" this book i think would be an inspiration to junkies everywhere i think. It gives hope not just on drugs but on anything, because if you can make it through that you can make it through anything. ( )1 unknown_guitar_demon | Apr 28, 2009 | When I bought this book, I expected many things. The grunge of the world it's told from, and a more honest approach to drug usage and the negative effects of it were things I expected. I did not, however expect to find this world so depressing. The perpetual dejection of such a glamorous individual came as a shock. I didn't expect his world to be pretty, but I also did not expect it to be as dark as it was. The brutal honesty of all of it, many individuals straight up calling him a control freak, or an asshole, in his own book. But the part I loved the most was that it more or less had a happy ending. He relapsed, but is currently clean. He more or less came to forgive his mother. He seems to have becom a better person. ( ) FaerytaleMalice | Feb 17, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743486285, Hardcover)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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