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The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

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The shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious bestselling memoir of Nikki Sixx’s yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction, featuring exclusive new content.

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 the diary entries—some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre—of those dark times. 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 surprisingly 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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMTV Books
Release dateSep 18, 2007
ISBN9781416525325
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Nikki Sixx

Born Frank Feranna, Nikki Sixx grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for Mötley Crüe, the legendary rock band he started with Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Tommy Lee. Today he is the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, and a coauthor of the Mötley Crüe book, The Dirt. Nikki Sixx is also a nationally syndicated radio host of Sixx Sense, writer, artist, photographer, and still loyal member of the Crüe.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Crazier than I ever imagined it would be. Painfully honest.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book and would love to read anything else Nikki Sixx writes. I would recommend this book to others!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I read Tommyland and The Dirt, but this one is my favorite book about Motley Crue.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the best books I have ever read !
    I've been a fan of Motley Crue since I was 14. Nikki Sixx is my favorite. Reading his books have been so eye opening and frankly inspirational. He is truly gifted and so creative. Heroin diaries and This is gonna hurt are now two of my favorite books.

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Enjoyed the Motley Crue history.. It is indeed miraculous that Nikki Sixx lived to tell the story..
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Definitely brutally honest about life in active addiction, thank you
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I am a struggling heroin addict myself. I had heard of this book a while back. I am recently re-active in recovery after a relapse that almost cost me my very life. I can relate to so much of Nikki in this book. Reading through the pages, I found myself in tears at times, because it jogged so many memories of my own feelings, pain, and struggles. This book is so very inspiring. I hope Nikki continues to do what hes doing. I hope Nikki sees this review some way some how & is satisfied knowing that he IS helping & this book DID give me some hope. Thanks Nikki!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Fantastic and illuminating. There is hope for all suffering in silence. Thank you.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great look into the mind of a drug addict. I couldn’t put it down!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Amazing. I have wanted to read this book for years but never got the chance too, as I had been in my own addiction. I am at the point in my life where enough is enough and this book had so much motivation in it. It was dark and scary. It was brutal and naked. It was everything I have ever wanted to read, and everything I expected to be. And then the light is at the end of the darkness. So many uplifting words. I’m ready to read it again! Thanks Nikki for sharing your most brutal history. Thank you for showing the world there is hope and there is a future for recovering addicts!!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    EXCELLENT reading ! I could not put it down until the end.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Incredible and so inspiring! THe honesty is mindblowing and the turn-around is just amazing. I couldn't put this book down.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    a quick read. Brave and honest, although hard to recommend
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I'm convinced that this is not from an actual diary. Can anyone find one page of the real diary? This book is fiction
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    awesome book!! I couldn't stop reading when I started
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    best memoir ever! very, VERY DARK, but as a life-long Nikki Sixx/Motley Crue Fan I truly enjoyed this read!!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    wonderful read! very eye-opening in regards to addiction and the different depths it tends to go to with different people based on their own addiction. this is a very sad yet bittersweet read because if you are a Motley Crue, Sixx AM, Sixx Sense or just a Nikki Sixx Fan, you know he's managed to come such a tremendously long way from then to the successful life he leads today & he is still 100% SOBER!!! A MUST READ!!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Being a lover of memoirs and Motley Crue I had to read this and I was not disappointed!

    There are diary entries written by Nikki Sixx during 1986-87 as well comments from people who knew him then. Motley Crue was big during that time so it's interesting to have a behind the scenes look at how he felt about being a rock star.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Awesome!!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Captivating. This book will stay with me and no I don't have and have never had a drug problem.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very wonderful book! It's both heart wrenching & heart breaking! A bittersweet story! MUST READ!!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I loved the band Sixx:A.M. and their album The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, so I wanted to read the book it was based around. The Heroin Diaries is an amazing story of Nikki Sixx (best known as the bassist of Mötley Crüe) and his struggle with his drug addiction. The Auto Biography show snippets of the rockers diary and the things he went through. I wish I could write a diary that way but I don’t have any addictions to write about.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    this is by far amazing! The fact that he kept diaries during the darkest & worst years of his life & then published them giving all proceeds to charity is even better!!!

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love Motley Crue and I LOVE Nikki Sixx . . .I found the book to be both hilarious at times (Vanity is a wack-a-doodle) and terribly sad. It takes guts to not only tell your story, but to do it in such a way that people can really feel what was happening to you at that time . . . If you can read the book while listening to the album, depending on the timing it gets eerie at times.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The book was constructed in such a way that made it an interesting read and not just an indulgent year in the life of a drug addict. Sixx's diary entries from 1987, a year of heavy drug and alcohol abuse, are punctuated with commentary from friends, family (and Sixx) twenty years later, adding dimension and perspective to the story. The portrait his diary paints is ugly but he is strong enough to recover, confront his demons and carry on to lead a creative and productive life. I don't think that the reader needs to be a Motley Crue fan (which I am not) nor a Nikki Sixx fan (which I am) in order to enjoy this book. I didn't know much about Nikki Sixx and had no idea that he was such an artist. The soundtrack that goes along with the book makes it an even more interesting work.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Awesome book. While I was never a huge Motely Crew fan, they were very big among my generation. The stories and headlines circulating about there music and behavior were legend. Now I know that what was said about them individually and as a group are true. WOW is all I can say...read it...you'll be stunned to.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I opened this book and was really amazed. The layout in the book is very special and interesting and the story itself...well I could barely put this book down.It's amazing how someone can be alive after all that. It is a true sex, drugs and rock n' roll book and it captivated my from the beginning to the very end.There are parts in the book when you don't know wether to laugh or cry.You wan't to laugh because the shit they did was hilarious and pretty stupid...but on the ...more I opened this book and was really amazed. The layout in the book is very special and interesting and the story itself...well I could barely put this book down.It's amazing how someone can be alive after all that. It is a true sex, drugs and rock n' roll book and it captivated my from the beginning to the very end.There are parts in the book when you don't know wether to laugh or cry.You wan't to laugh because the shit they did was hilarious and pretty stupid...but on the other hand you want to cry because of how stoned they were when they did it.Really worth reading
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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 :)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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.

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