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The Heroin Diaries: 10 Year Anniversary Edition
- A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
- Narrated by: Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman, Ross Marquand
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
In honor of the 10-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx's definitive and best-selling memoir on drug addiction is now available on audio for the first time, read by Nikki Sixx! This shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious memoir explores Nikki's yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction. Now more than ever, with opioid addiction ravaging our country and rising by 20 percent in the past year alone, Nikki's story of both his descent into drug-addled decay and subsequent recovery and transition into a rehabilitation advocate is now more relevant than ever.
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.
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-04-18
loved this book
raw, honest and inspiring to see how somebody could survive and overcome so much. awesome!
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- Claire Turner
- 26-01-20
Brutally honest
a very honest account of a life in the midst of an adiction to heroin, drink and a self loathe, it's dark, brutal and strangely uplifting at the end.
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- Rebecca
- 03-01-23
Amazing book
Such an interesting and inspiring book. He reads it so well and I love the diary entry format.
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- JD
- 11-04-19
Incredible Story with a Very Positive Message
Nikki Sixx tells a very honest and open story with many of his peers telling us how much of a difficult and spiteful person he used to be. The 10year anniversary edition adds a lot to the story on how Nikki has turned his life around even after Motley Crue finished.
The story is read incredibly well by Nikki and you can feel the emotion in his voice as he relives the Heroin Diaries.
Loved every second of this story!
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- Anonymous User
- 27-10-20
fuckn brilliant
one of the best things I've ever heard fantastic, to listen too his ups an downs
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- mrs victoria j sadler
- 04-06-18
Amazing
Love this book. Honest, raw but moreover therapeutic. If you are dealing with any kind of addiction. Read this book. Work with gambling addicts. Recommend to all of them to read this book. So much more insightful than any other book I’ve read on gambling addiction. Addiction is addiction and this is the best insight you’ll ever get into that troubled world.
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- Katie
- 02-11-22
a lost man trying to find his way!
Some of the reviews of this book were quite dispassionate, but I was really keen to read it from a psychotherapist and huge rock fan point of view. Others have suggested Nikki is narcicistic and horrid, but listening to his diaries made me feel that he was just a lost little boy trying to navigate his way through life. I've read quite a few books about musicians addictions and the constant thing I keep thinking is: "Why didn't anyone see how much these people were struggling - why did nobody help!" The ending made me cry, Nikki speaks candiddly about his continuing journey - and I wish him and his family all the best for the future.
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- AnnieJuly
- 31-10-17
What can I say...
...but wonderful! I had already read the original but the audio brings those words to life when read by Nikki himself. Plenty of new material too. The epilogue was really moving on so many levels: his intelligence, his determination, his search to contribute and not least his rallying cry for the true rock star in an age of blah, blah, blah (and that’s the sober Nikki talking). I’d say this would appeal to those who maybe aren’t Sixx fans sufficiently to want to read the book too. The male voice actor who did the other male characters was great: his Tommy, Vince and Slash were uncannily good. His English accents, hmm, okay! The female was pretty awful: a strange, shrill, nasal delivery that barely changed person to person. The one thing that I didn’t like was her delivery.
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- Mike.
- 23-09-19
A read in the life of one hell of a rockstar
I have read this book 5-6 times and now listened to it it's beautiful would highly recommend to anyone interested in rock music, or anyone who has ever suffered from any type of addiction.
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- GetToIt
- 08-03-21
Respect to Mick Marrs - the only decent Crue member!
I’m a Crue fan and went to see them a few times in the 80’s, so was intrigued to hear Nikki’s account. Nothing really shocked me accept the level of his depression, and I feel sad that no one at the time gave him any support.
I’m interested in addiction and rehabilitation, so have been going through a lot of books on the topic and although I enjoyed this, I much prefer stories of normal families who get sucked into the awful world of addiction as they are far more relatable. You really learn something from Nic/David Sheff’s accounts as you realise with horror that this could easily happen to your family. A rock star’s debauchery is pretty much a standardised formula and is far removed from normal life. And they all predictably clean their act up once they hit middle age (if they make it that far).
I knew it went on, but now I’m in my 40’s I find the disposable treatment of women really appalling, but even more so, how there always seemed to be a bus load of girls ready and willing to be abused. I wondered how many people shared STD’s after all the germs flying around.
I have a new respect for Mick Marrs tho, he was the only one of the four who wasn’t a complete arsehole. I think we knew that at the time but he always came across as the oddball.
And finally, there must’ve been a LOT of very high sewer rats in LA in 1987!
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