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September 18th 2005
by VH1
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Hardcover, 208 pages
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0743486285
(isbn13: 9780743486286)
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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 o...more
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Read in November, 2007
I only give this 2 stars for having funny little details about Vanity and GnR. This is not only a study in decadence but also a study in misogyny and white privilege. Isn't Nikki a n- - - - -? Why can't he say that word? Women = Trouble didn't you know?
I feel like ranting....apparently you get to be a self-indulgent prick if your father abandoned you and your mother left you with a grandmother/grandfather that adored you. Your life is so freaking hard....Really I don't know how you r...more
I feel like ranting....apparently you get to be a self-indulgent prick if your father abandoned you and your mother left you with a grandmother/grandfather that adored you. Your life is so freaking hard....Really I don't know how you r...more
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Read in November, 2007
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I don't know what it is about Motley Crue, but they're absolutely fascinating to read about. Bassist/founder/main songwriter Nikki Sixx dug up these old diaries that cover almost every day of his life in 1987. When the band wasn't touring, Sixx was near death in his bedroom closet taking heroin, cocaine and other drugs nonstop. After most entries are current anecdotes by many people in Sixx's life at the time: band members and managers, girlfriends, family etc. It's amazing Sixx is still alive a...more
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Read in March, 2008
I have to start out saying I was never a Motley Crue fan when they were huge. To the best of my memory, they only had two songs I can truly say I liked: 'Shout at the Devil' and 'Dr. Feelgood.'
Having established that fact, I was blown away when I heard 'Life is Beautiful' on my favorite internet radio station (www.therock.fm). I immediately had to find out who this Sixx AM band was. AMG provided a wealth of information. Sixx AM is a project put together by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue f...more
Having established that fact, I was blown away when I heard 'Life is Beautiful' on my favorite internet radio station (www.therock.fm). I immediately had to find out who this Sixx AM band was. AMG provided a wealth of information. Sixx AM is a project put together by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue f...more
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This book is a compilation of Nikki Sixx's diary entries from 1986/1987 along with comments by those who knew him then. Let me say, I give Nikki Sixx a lot of credit for doing this as well as those who commented in the book. This took a very strong person to look back and read these entries; acknowledge the person he was; and actively ask those who were close to him (often participants in madcap antics) during this dark time to comment on him. Very in your face (what else would a diary of a r...more
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Read in October, 2007
This was really good. I was so glad when it arrived in the mail, I opened the package and I had this beautiful glossy-paged thing in my hands. This book just looks good. Then you actually get down and read it. This book shows Nikki's diary excepts from Christmas Day 1986 to the same day a year later. I'm sure the name makes it obvious that a lot of this book focuses on drugs. In fact, pretty much all of it does. It's easy to see just how meaningful this book could be to other addicts. I'm not an...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone with interest in recovery or a Motley Crue/Nikki Sixx fan
This was an absolutely fascinating book. Obviously, I am a big fan, particularly of Nikki's songwriting from the beginning to present so I've anxiously waited for the release of this book for several years. I am also a recovering addict and this was truly compelling, touching, at times rather raw but honest, and I simply could not stop reading. I knew the basic story but didn't know the brutal details. Wow. I found myself feeling lost and alone as I read the pages of this journal, knowing j...more
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Read in January, 2008
A better title would have been a "Year in the Life of a self-absorbed, drug-addled, whining rockstar." The book isn't awful. Nikki Sixx has some decent writing chops, but so much of the book is taken up with the same defeatist, whining, self-hatred that by the fifth or sixth month of it, you find yourself skipping over the boring entries. One of the book's saving graces is its format - the addition of "after the fact" notes from a variety of people makes the stories so muc...more
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Read in November, 2007
This is a riveting read, I burned through this book within two days. I appreciate Nikki's fulfilling his vision of complete honesty when he decided to publish this... nothing is sugar coated in this sad, vicious diary of a rock star on drugs and out of control with plenty of money to fuel his habit. The debauchery recounted in the book is tempered with some pretty witty insight from Nikki (as of 2006) and by others who were willing to go on the record in the book to comment on the events as th...more
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Read in June, 2008
What a ride. Although I loved Motley Crue back in the day, I was young and had no idea the life they led as rock stars. Sex, drugs, Rock and roll was the theme back then but I never knew the depths of the darkness it led Nikki too.
One of the last paragraphs that I loved
You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which ...more
One of the last paragraphs that I loved
You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which ...more
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Read in January, 2008
it's interesting and sad that in their heyday this was nikki's life. BUT...for some reason it doesn't sit with me. i don't know...i love motley and have a special place for nikki but i don't know if this book rings true. if he was the THAT messed up - how in the hell did he write in his journal pretty much daily?? how did he even know the day!? the time? i don't mean to slag - if it's his account i guess you have to take it for what it is but... it just seems a bit contrived to me. at le...more
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Read in December, 2007
I found this book somewhat less than riviting, but generally interesting. In a few places it was even moderately entertaining. In many places I found an echo of the life I watched a friend live.
The Heroin Diaries is a glimpse behind the curtain of an industry that lovingly cultivates herds of the "self-indulgent pricks" that reviewer Laura so disdains. It chronicles a year in the life of an addict swaddled in a culture that condones (if not downright encourages) addictio...more
The Heroin Diaries is a glimpse behind the curtain of an industry that lovingly cultivates herds of the "self-indulgent pricks" that reviewer Laura so disdains. It chronicles a year in the life of an addict swaddled in a culture that condones (if not downright encourages) addictio...more
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people with addiction struggles
I read a snippet of this book by Nikki Sixx (of Motley Crue fame, former bass player) since it's a bonus on the CD when you slip the disc into your computer. All IO can say is, wow. This man is incredibly brave and I hope his terrifying experience heal people! And, the diaries are not only fascinating, but funny, smart, painful. Intuitive, amazingly. Nikki Sixx kept a journal of his experience on beaucoup drugs and the people surrounding him, Motley, and his drug life throughout the 80s. Now, he...more
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Read in November, 2007
I read this before I gave it as a gift to my Motley loving brother. Very interesting. I can't believe how f*d up these guys are and all they went through, but I can't help but wonder how much of it actually happened. If he was that messed up on junk, how did he actually keep a legible and comprehesible diary? I'm intrigued though at how junkies become junkies. If it's addictive, why do you even do it once? I'm naive, I know. This book did however give me hope for the human race. Nikki Sixx has t...more
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Read in December, 2007
Am I the only one who is skepitcal of the fact that Nikki Sixx kept a diary during the height of his heavy drug using days? And that he began his entries with "Dear Diary?" Even I didn't do that in 1987, the year that The Herion Diaries spans, and I was a 14 year old girl then.
Whether or not these stories were actually chronicled by Nikki in '87, the ones about the band and their '87 tour are interesting. The ones about Nikki shooting up in his closet at home and hallucina...more
Whether or not these stories were actually chronicled by Nikki in '87, the ones about the band and their '87 tour are interesting. The ones about Nikki shooting up in his closet at home and hallucina...more
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Read in May, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone who works with musicians/artists
"How is Nikki Sixx still alive?" is the question I was asking myself after finishing this book. Coming from the industry side of things, it's a real treat to get inside the mind of a psychotic artist (because they're all nuts in my opinion.) Even if he was high out of his mind on heroin, coke, pills, alcohol and any other kind of poison you can imagine, his diary still tells a compelling and intricate story about the life if a musician left to deal with his sordid past while still try...more
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More on Motley...Nikki Sixx is a creative genius in my opinion. He knows how to utilize the media machine, but not without maintaining artistic integrity. This book is chocked full of art. The drawings are Ralph Steadman like and demonstrative of angst and intensity...mostly grey, red and black and white. Once again,the pictures are phenominal, showing the best and the worst of Nikki. Impressive to me that such a rockstar was/is connected to the powerful tool of journal writing. This book ...more
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Read in February, 2008
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my husbandrecommends it for: Motely Crue fans, GNR fans, any 80s hair metal band fans,
WOW. Just wow.
This is literally excerpts from Nikki Sixx's (bassist, lyricist, leader of Motley Crue) diary from 12/23/1986 through 12/25/1987 - during this time, the Crue was on the rise, they were touring for Girls Girls Girls, and Nikki was an alcholic, a coke-head & a heroin junkie. He literally died, AND CAME BACK, TWICE in this year.
Disturbing, insane & riveting... this is a gruesome & honest look at what is probably a year in the life of most junkies.
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This is literally excerpts from Nikki Sixx's (bassist, lyricist, leader of Motley Crue) diary from 12/23/1986 through 12/25/1987 - during this time, the Crue was on the rise, they were touring for Girls Girls Girls, and Nikki was an alcholic, a coke-head & a heroin junkie. He literally died, AND CAME BACK, TWICE in this year.
Disturbing, insane & riveting... this is a gruesome & honest look at what is probably a year in the life of most junkies.
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Read in December, 2007
Okay, so it's not the world's best written book ever. Imagine that, the bassist and songwriter for Motley Crue isn't the greatest writer ever. That being said, this is one of the most compulsively readable books I've read in awhile. As in, given everything going on in my life and all the things that have a tendency to derail me from reading anything at all, I still could not put it down. I read it in two days and neglected to do much of anything else.
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Read in February, 2009
Eh. I've read a bunch of addiction memoirs and this was the least interesting so far. In the introduction, Sixx says that if he can help one person kick their addiction, then creating the book was worth it. In my opinion, the only thing Sixx helped with was making his bank account grow. The book presents the actual diary of Sixx from the mid 80's when Motley Crue was touring. It's basically just a mishmash of whining, drug use, sex, and Sixx acting like a complete jerk most of the time. Sixx rec...more
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Read in November, 2008
Written by Motley Crue bassist, Nykki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries is exactly as it sounds, a copy of the diary he kept for one year while deep in the grip of a heroin/cocaine addiction. Superbly written, and brutally honest, you don't need to be a fan of Motley Crue in order to enjoy this book. The diary starts in December, 1986. At this point, Motley Crue is about to reach the apex of their meteorical career. It's Christmas Day, and Sixx is contemplating the fact that he's alone, crouched naked un...more
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