The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star | 
Love the rawness & the honesty. However, maybe in updates he could footnote the parts that are casually racist & actively misogynistic to show areas for growth. We 💯 knew swastikas sucked back then. They still suck. Fuck nazis wherever they exist, and fuck their propaganda. Glad he has his shit together.
pickWoah, what a roller coaster!
Eye opening, frightening, heartbreaking, bizarre, and at times, funny.
I couldn't put this down. It was so addictive.
I think this is my new favourite rockstar memoir.
For those who aren't familiar - Nikki Sixx is the bassist and songwriter for Mötley Crüe. He was a major drug addict and alcoholic. This is his diary entries from the Girls, Girls, Girls tour... the year he died and came back to life. Literally.
I've always had a soft spot for these two. I love how open they are about their demons. I love that Steven Tyler was looking out for Nikki when he needed help and was at an all time low.
Also, the bottom photograph is brilliant. 🖤
Made it to Milwaukee to see The Stadium Tour with Poison, Def Leppard and Motley Crue! Y‘all it was worth the drive and the price of the ticket! It‘s my Birthday month and this was one of the BEST presents ever! I love getting back to going to concerts!
Two sides of addiction. It‘s really impressive that Nikki Sixx is such an advocate for sobriety now. I haven‘t read Empire of Pain yet. I know it‘s going to make me mad.
#PersonVsAddiction #ConflictedWorlds
pickNikki!!
Hooked on this book while it rips my heart out.
He is so strong and also "LEAVE MICK ALONE!"
you can see him changing for the better and seeing his family and how happy he is.
CANNOT. STOP. READING
Poor Nikki.
So strong.
That line when he put "will I ever have a family"
Yes Nikki you will and they are all beautiful
pickI can‘t say enough about this book. Not always an easy read. Bit one that needs to be picked up if you have questions about how an addict thinks. Helped me a great deal with processing my sisters death due to addiction.
I‘m sick of rain lol, but I get a lot of reading in. Currently rereading The Heroin Diaries, but the ten year anniversary edition this time! After getting my steps and my yoga it‘s nice to lay down and read.
I hope everyone else is doing well on their #BookFitnessChallenge #Bfc ✌🏼😊
I was a huge fan back in the day - I remember the rumors of him overdosing and coming back to life - but had no idea of the personal hell he was living in. Reading his book of a years worth of journal entries and reflections on those entries by Nikki and friends gives insight into the dark world of addiction - and that there is hope.
This is a go-to book for me since it first came out. I grew up listening to Motley Crew with my dad, so it's always amazing to see how far Nikki has come from those dark days.
pickI finished listening to this audiobook last night and I loved the entire book. It is definitely eye opening, shocking, and disturbing at points. There were even a few times I found myself laughing. I love Nikki Sixx and I have even more respect for this man than I did before reading/listening to this book.
#musicofthenight #musicalnewyear
I read this one when @HotdogZanzabaar and I first met because it‘s one of his favorite books. I like the diary format and I like reading about the salacious and unbelievable life Nikki Sixx led. But overall this isn‘t really my scene. So while I surprised HZB with new 10th anniversary edition, I won‘t be going in for a reread.
pickI read this for the first time about 10 years ago and I was blown away. Reading it now just reminds me to be grateful for what I have and to cherish those close to me. It is a sobering look at addiction and the mind of a man who is trapped in a hell of his own creation, and proof that you can make it out.
Even though I have the physical book, I opted to listen to Nikki Sixx read it because 1) I love him & 2) listening to him tell his story of addiction is not only powerful, but emotional. The fact that he can be so openly raw to the entire world is just so inspiring and gives me hope to keep fighting my fight against Depression. I know it's not the same thing as drug addiction, but there are some similarities. #pop19 #abookwrittenbyamusician.
I may have been slightly naughty at work today, but I couldn't help myself.
I LOVE Nikki Sixx, and Mötley Crüe, so I had to get his book while also ordering the 10th anniversary edition of "The Dirt" because the movie will be on Netflix come May ???
I found the cozy mystery by chance and it'll be perfect for one of the #pop19 prompts. Plus I laughed a little too hard at the title because it's super corny like me ?
My HUGE Book Outlet order has arrived! 😍😍
The books in front and vertical are for the kids (except Heroin Diaries. 😂 I bought that one for @HotdogZanzabaar )
For my own shelves, I focused on buying some really beautiful books. I‘m so excited. 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you so much Daria @dariazeoli I've been wanting to read this so much. Also yesterday I had my two bottom wisdom teeth out, so I will be spending today in bed reading. Great timing, and Merry Everything to you too 💚
#JB
My husband wasn‘t a huge reader when we met (and that hasn‘t changed 😂😂) and he told me this was his favorite book. Since we were newly dating, I read it. I can‘t say I‘m a fan but there are certain parts that have stuck with me. Mainly, the fact that they would wear the same pair of leather pants for weeks on end. Can you imagine the SMELL?!? 🤮 And yet the women were just throwing themselves at these guys.
#thankyouforthemusic #abbainaugust
I‘m sure this has popped up on Litsy somewhere but I‘m so excited for this! I love Nikki and how involved he has been in the process of it all. I‘m anxious to see the artwork of this graphic novel too. My grubby little hands can‘t wait to get ahold of this! 🤘🏼
It‘s not Monday anymore but I‘m chiming in anyway. 1. I don‘t really have favorites because I read so many but Nikki‘s is a good one. 2. Big names? Pop Evil, Buddy Guy was a good show; my usual shows at the dive? ALY, Elisium, Saving Abel always puts on a good show 4. I don‘t think I could narrow it down-I‘ve always got a soundtrack in my head—A@erican Dreams by Papa Roach has been on a lot lately #manicmonday
1. Don‘t know of any but hope to read the tagged book. 2. Nothing More, Melissa Etheridge, Shinedown, This Wild Life, Panic! At the Disco, Beartooth and so many more!
3. Band: Nothing More. Artist: Melissa Etheridge. 4. Square Hammer by Ghost, Jenny by Nothing More, Love Like Winter by AFI, Dragula by Rob Zombie, Last of the Wilds by Nightwish, LA Devotee by P!ATD, Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N‘ Roses, Thick as Thieves by Shinedown and more!
1. The Heroin Diaries, by Nikki Sixx
2. RUSH, followed by the Church, followed by Porcupine Tree... Stop making me pick just one! Lol.
3. RUSH - Clockwork Angels tour. They had an 8 piece orchestra with them. Last year's Minus the Bear concert is a close second.
4. I can't do repetition. I own too much music for that to ever happen. I like a lot of variety.
#ManicMonday
@JoScho
I‘m not big into the funko thing but I‘m a huge Nikki Sixx fan (and Motley in general). Pretty sure I‘m going to need these.
pickI started listening to this on a long drive yesterday. Holy crap! I felt equally shocked, anxious, disgusted, and dirty. It's amazing that he survived. Addiction is no joke.
Cautionary Tale... great read!
pickA fascinating look into what addiction really feels like.
Went to the bookstore again tonight. It seemed slightly ridiculous to buy a book I already own but it‘s the 10th Anniversary Edition. Also it‘s Nikki Sixx. I ❤️ Nikki—he was always my favorite Crue guy.
pickWho doesn't enjoy a little crazy with a syringe on the side? On someone else's plate.
P.S. Hey what has 48 legs and 12 teeth?
The front row in Alabama…
The dying could be easy…it was the living that I didn‘t know if I could do…
A friend tells you the truth, that your breath stinks and you need a bath. An enemy tells you that you look great and you shouldn‘t change a thing.
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun.
when you‘re sitting on a plane 40,000 feet up in the air, looking out the window, dreaming of your future...life feels good...safe, your seat belt is on and your feet are up. then the oxygen masks fall, the plane jumps, people start to scream...to the overhead announcement that we‘re gonna crash. right then, as your life flashes before your eyes, you hear yourself say, “god, if you get me outta this one, i‘ll stop [insert lie here] forever.”
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.
It's 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 is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files
A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary
Addiction-When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.
Cocaine-Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context.
Depression-When everything you laugh at is miserable and you can't seem to stop.
Heroin-A drug that helps you to escape reality, while making it much harder to cope when you are recaptured.
Selling my soul would be a lot if I could just find it.
After I read The Heroin Diaries, I had to know more about the Crue, GNR, Vanity... I read The Dirt and picked up Timmy Land. I should have just stopped. #readthisnotthat #maybookflowers
so-so2/5⭐️This book was equally scary and fascinating! Read in February 2017
