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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by Nikki Sixx, Ian Gittins
As vaguely horrified as I am to admit it, I actually preferred Tommy Lee's book. I mean, Nikki just can't compete with a book partially narrated by Tommy Lee's penis...
This WAS an interesting book though - totally different approach from Tommy's. And after having seen Nikki perform at CrueFest, it's particularly impressive to have read about what he went through.
This book is a year in the life of Nikki as he descends into the bowels of his heroin addiction, but he's hardly limited to heroin. It's painful to read, and the layout is quite visceral at times with its startling red, black, and white swatches and anatomical drawings. The art is extremely interesting, and I'm curious if it is Nikki's. What is truely horrifying is that this is just ONE YEAR of this fight - in the afterword, Nikki explains that he continued to fall off the wagon several more times.
Some interesting stuff that I learned about Nikki - particularly the bits about his ex-girlfriend Vanity. And I really respect Nikki for being willing to let anyone who knew him at the time respond to these journal entries. Some of the responses are harsh, some are sympathetic, some are crazy. But the view from outside of Nikki's insular drug-world adds a whole other dimension to the craziness going on in Nikki's head.
However, this book really only covers this year of drug addled ramblings in Nikki's journals. It's not so much a book about the band, or even, really the man - it's a book about addiction. Not entirely what I expected.
This WAS an interesting book though - totally different approach from Tommy's. And after having seen Nikki perform at CrueFest, it's particularly impressive to have read about what he went through.
This book is a year in the life of Nikki as he descends into the bowels of his heroin addiction, but he's hardly limited to heroin. It's painful to read, and the layout is quite visceral at times with its startling red, black, and white swatches and anatomical drawings. The art is extremely interesting, and I'm curious if it is Nikki's. What is truely horrifying is that this is just ONE YEAR of this fight - in the afterword, Nikki explains that he continued to fall off the wagon several more times.
Some interesting stuff that I learned about Nikki - particularly the bits about his ex-girlfriend Vanity. And I really respect Nikki for being willing to let anyone who knew him at the time respond to these journal entries. Some of the responses are harsh, some are sympathetic, some are crazy. But the view from outside of Nikki's insular drug-world adds a whole other dimension to the craziness going on in Nikki's head.
However, this book really only covers this year of drug addled ramblings in Nikki's journals. It's not so much a book about the band, or even, really the man - it's a book about addiction. Not entirely what I expected.