Book Review: The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx

I would like to dispel a myth about writers: we don't write EVERYTHING down. Some of us don't keep journals or diaries, we don't constantly write down our thoughts on scraps of paper (though we should - some are brilliant) and we don't carry notebooks or personal tape recorders with us wherever we go. Like I said, we should. It's certainly better than trying to remember something when you're driving in the car, repeating something over and over again hoping by the time you make it home you can still recall it all to write it down. Admittedly, we're not always prepared. That being said, I had a diary when I was a kid. I wrote in it for a week and forgot about it. It was boring stuff anyway. The same thing over and over again. Wake up, school, home, chores, etc. blah, blah, blah. Not very interesting is it? The book I'm about to turn you on to is nothing like what I described above. I wasn't sure what to expect myself with Nikki Sixx's book, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star." Sure, an autobiography along the same lines as Motley Crue's book "The Dirt." I had no idea when I picked it up it was an actual one year diary of Nikki's starting December 25, 1986, one of the darkest if not the darkest of his heroin and cocaine addiction. Not to mention alcohol, pills, sex and whatever else Sixx could find. He is a rock star after all. Nothing like excess to the max and beyond. That was pretty much what Motley Crue was known and stood for back then and to some degree still does. Ah, God bless rock 'n' roll.

Although this book consists of diary entries it is by no means an easy read.

Credit: PR Brown

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