experienced. He even calls some to be saved from the grips of addiction,
people out in the book’s introduction but he was so absorbed that there was
for not returning calls for fear that little to no hope for his recovery.
these crazy stories would tarnish their
image. Sixx wrote, “It’s clearer to me The real gems are the stories of the
now more than ever why you are who era and the real life actors who all
you are in life—and that is simply played supporting roles in the real
spineless.” life Hollywood movie. Behind all of
the insanity is a candid look at the
In typical Nikki Sixx fashion, he emotional distress of Sixx’s family’s
throws his dirt out there with no past, his battle with depression, his
regrets or fears and dares the reader own self-loathing that led him down
to continue shoveling through the a destructive road fueled by the
muck. With every page I turned, I was financial success of Motley Crue. Of
continually astonished how Sixx was all of the stories, none is more shock-
coherent enough to write a diary at ing than when Sixx overdosed on
all. In Heroin Diaries’ there’s no added heroin, died, then was revived by
fluff to make the stories more inter- medics, just to escape the hospital
esting because Motley Crue was truly to go score and shoot up again. Now
a Jack Daniels chugging, coke snort- that’s rock n’ roll!
ing,, ass kicking, womanizing, money
making wrecking ball that destroyed The Heroin Diaries’ artwork compli-
anything and anyone in their path— ments the stories with decorated grim,
including their selves. bloody style, with candid pictures of
Sixx looking like a decaying heroin
Nikki Sixx’s sickness, arrogance and zombie. From the content, to the art
madness ran so deep that I found and the sheer shock that Sixx sur-
myself affected by it. Still, no matter vived at all, makes The Heroin Diaries
how surprised, offended or disgusted one of the best rock star gone wrong
I was by his antics, there was always stories ever written.
pity. I could feel him wanting so badly
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