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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use
Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content
dark
emotional
reflective
Pysäyttävä, tyhjentävä.
Jos jollakulla on epäselvää millaista on addiktin ajatusmaailma niin tästä se selviää.
Myös se että addikti pääsee addiktiostaan vasta kun itse on siihen valmis, jos on ikinä.
Koska tänäänkin Nikki on elossa, on hän onnistunut.
Toivottavasti joku tämän kirjan perusteella pelastuu
Helmet2020 lukuhaasteen kohtiin:
7, 9, 22, 30, 39
Jos jollakulla on epäselvää millaista on addiktin ajatusmaailma niin tästä se selviää.
Myös se että addikti pääsee addiktiostaan vasta kun itse on siihen valmis, jos on ikinä.
Koska tänäänkin Nikki on elossa, on hän onnistunut.
Toivottavasti joku tämän kirjan perusteella pelastuu
Helmet2020 lukuhaasteen kohtiin:
7, 9, 22, 30, 39
I discovered the Sixx:AM band and the CD of music inspired by the stories within this diary via a DLC track for the Rock Band video game several years ago. It took me a while to decide I wanted to read the book though, and after finishing reading "The Dirt", about all the members of Motley Crue, I moved straight onto Nikki Sixx's "Heroin Diaries".
A lot of the same ground is covered in both books, but with The Heroin Diaries focusing mainly on one particular year of decadence you get a more fleshed out look inside events. I particularly liked the mix of of-the-time diary entries follwed by up-to-date commentary from the people involved. Some have forgotten individual moments, others bring along additional nuggets and viewpoints. Lots of additional people added bits to this book which adds a lot I think.
It's quite a 'busy' book with the diary entries, added comments, song lyrics, photographs, and art work mixed onto pages that alternate background and text colours as well as fonts. Once you settle into the 'routine' of the book it reads well and I started racing through it more quickly as I got more into the drama and nearly life-ending pace of Sixx's life.
During an intermission he rightly suggests the reader is probably wondering how on earth this dude is still alive. And right up to the end I really liked spotting lines and lyrics that I knew well from having listened to the first Sixx:AM album regularly these past few years.
I think that overall I got a lot out of the book because I was already vaguelly familiar with the background of Motley Crue, already liked the band, was able to listen to the music while reading the book, and also find Nikki Sixx likeable despite his utterly terrible behaviour.
I initially wanted to rate this 3/5 but I think upon reflection, and the fact that I kept looking forward to reading more, I'm probably closer to a 4/5 overall.
A lot of the same ground is covered in both books, but with The Heroin Diaries focusing mainly on one particular year of decadence you get a more fleshed out look inside events. I particularly liked the mix of of-the-time diary entries follwed by up-to-date commentary from the people involved. Some have forgotten individual moments, others bring along additional nuggets and viewpoints. Lots of additional people added bits to this book which adds a lot I think.
It's quite a 'busy' book with the diary entries, added comments, song lyrics, photographs, and art work mixed onto pages that alternate background and text colours as well as fonts. Once you settle into the 'routine' of the book it reads well and I started racing through it more quickly as I got more into the drama and nearly life-ending pace of Sixx's life.
During an intermission he rightly suggests the reader is probably wondering how on earth this dude is still alive. And right up to the end I really liked spotting lines and lyrics that I knew well from having listened to the first Sixx:AM album regularly these past few years.
I think that overall I got a lot out of the book because I was already vaguelly familiar with the background of Motley Crue, already liked the band, was able to listen to the music while reading the book, and also find Nikki Sixx likeable despite his utterly terrible behaviour.
I initially wanted to rate this 3/5 but I think upon reflection, and the fact that I kept looking forward to reading more, I'm probably closer to a 4/5 overall.
A better title would have been a "Year in the Life of a self-absorbed, drug-addled, whining rockstar." The book isn't awful. Nikki Sixx has some decent writing chops, but so much of the book is taken up with the same defeatist, whining, self-hatred that by the fifth or sixth month of it, you find yourself skipping over the boring entries. One of the book's [b:saving grace|130916|The Saving Graces A Novel|Patricia Gaffney|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171995451s/130916.jpg|126092]s is its format - the addition of "after the fact" notes from a variety of people makes the stories so much more interesting. Hearing how Tommy Lee remembered the same thing that Nikki wrote about while being high, for example, gives you a really shocking look into the delusion of today's addicts. Borrow this one; don't buy it.
dark
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol
his description of his depression and the way it is written was interesting but I didn't think it was necessary for it to be a picture book that was a little annoying