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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star | 
 enlarge | Author: Nikki Sixx
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  254 reviews
Sales Rank: 1787
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0743486285
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9780743486286
ASIN: 0743486285
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Moetley Cruee'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 Moetley Cruee 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.
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 Hard to Put Down August 19, 2008
This book is amazing. It is both tragic and funny. The stories are non stop and really show how messed up ones life can get when hooked on junk. I highly recommend it.
Another great Motley book August 18, 2008
This book continues Nikki's story. If you read the Dirt then you should read this. Big insight on how Vanity was, I think that is the biggest shock. Always heard about her drug use but never read about it and she is not revisiting her past so this is the closest we will ever get.
It also shows how Motley almost did not survive. Nikki is a great songwriter and has proven to be an excellent author. It is just amazing that he had the insight to keep a dairy.
The Dirt and this should be made into a movie.
 Hardcore Book About Hardcore Topic August 16, 2008
This book is frightingly real and brutally honest. Interesting read but probably not for everyone.
good until the end August 13, 2008
This book was very fun to read, although it got a little repetitive after reading 100 pages of his weird crazy-skitzo antics. I dont like that at the end of the book it doenst tell you anymore diaries of him after he got sober. It just kind abruptly ends with a few notes that said what he went on to do and so on....but overall a good read otherwise!
Addicted to this book?! August 5, 2008
On advice from a friend in rehab who read it i bought it brand new. Did not stop reading it except to sleep and eat...period. Thirty six hours later i felt as spent as he did, without the crakheads and dirty needles. I really felt for the character...because as real as he lived it it is still a ROCKSTAR's portrayal of addiction. Nobody i know has ever been that high but alot have been that low. Not so much a book of "you can kick dope too" book as a "I went this far and lived" book to me. My only complaint was the price and since some of that goes to a charity if you can afford to, buy it new.
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