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The H e ro i n Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock S
tar - Nikki Sixx
By: Chip Date: July 21, 2011, 9:17 pm
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[CENTER]The H e r o i n Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A
Shattered Rock Star (2007)
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Before I get into the review for The H*eroin Diaries, I have to
address this books construction. I originally intended to read
this along with Tommyland, but due to the horrible binding of
this book, it literally fell apart in my hands when I opened it.
I had to take it back to the library and ask if I could get
another copy. She said that it wouldn't be a problem as they had
multiple copies floating around at other branches. When she did
further research on the book, she saw that all the copies had
suffered the same fate and all had to be repaired as well. The
current copy I just read had a few pages that started to come
apart, but I manage to actually get through and finish the book
without any further damage.
This is hands down the worst and most ill conceived book put
together of all time. Just looking at the binding "new", you can
tell it would and will eventually fall apart. Just horrible.
Since I'm talking about the construction of the book I should at
least mention the actual design itself. It's different from your
typical paper stock as this is all glossy paper. And on top of
that the pages are designed to represent the chaos of what Nikki
Sixx was going through with his doping. I think it's actually a
pretty cool look and feel to it, although there are some pages
that were extremely hard to read when it was red text on black
pages.
So for the construction of the book, this gets....
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For the design elements within the pages, this gets...
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Now onto the book review. H*eroin Diaries is kind of what Hit
Hard by Joey Kramer wanted to be and it makes perfect sense that
Nikki Sixx did the forward for Joey's book. It's another "self
help" book as it deals primarily with Nikki's year long battle
with H*eroin, coke, and every other drug you can think of during
1987, or the Girls, Girls, Girls Tour. How is this like Hit
Hard? Well, H*eroin Diaries is dealing mainly with the root
problem of his childhood and his relationship with his Mother.
To say that Nikki had a pretty messed up childhood is an
understatement. His broken family led to his depression which
eventually led to his constant need to self medicate to mask
this problem.
Now why does this get a better review then Hit Hard then if it's
basically the same topic? A lot has to do with how it's written
and constructed. This book literally plays like an episode of
VH1 Behind The Music. Just think of the diary entries as the
reenactments and the Guest Author's describing each entry as the
"on-camera" testimonials to bring it into context of what was
going on at the time.
This is a pretty engaging read and I couldn't put the book down
at all. It's these testimonials that actually save the book and
it's cool to get input from a lot of different people that were
involved at one time or another through his year long downward
spiral. Those that lend a hand with their insight are: Tommy
Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Doc McGhee, Vanity (this one is the
trippiest by far), Rick Nielsen and Slash just to name a few.
One thing I have to mention here is that when I was reading this
book, Nikki mentions a lot of the time that he could never be in
a room full of people he didn't know if he was sober. He
couldn't relate to other people and would literally run out of
the room because it was almost claustrophobic in a way when
trying to be social. So obviously when this kept coming up in
the book, I was left remembering the time I met and talked to
Nikki once before and at no time did he hint at being
uncomfortable. So either I am such an awesome and cool cat to
talk with, or he was strung out and did an amazing job of hiding
it, which I never would have guessed because he was very
articulate, engaging and cool when talking with me. I'm just
gonna say that this was one of those rare sober moments that he
could talk in a social environment.
Now, Tommy Lee on the other hand had to have been high, because
no matter how awesome and cool I am, even he couldn't be THAT
happy to see and talk with me. Haha. :lol: Both were really cool
and down to earth, so I have no idea if they were high or not.
I can definitely recommend this book if you can look past the
redundancy of his drug use. It does get repetitive in hearing
about him scoring, hallucinating and then vowing to quit. But
because of the other's input in telling the story, it keeps you
engaged throughout.
I need to take a break from reading Rock Biographies for awhile.
The whole drug thing is making me ill just reading about it.
Blah. Gonna hit some Baseball Biographies and Comedy books for
the foreseeable future.
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Re: The H*eroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock
Star - Nikki Sixx
By: ChipRawks Date: August 10, 2011, 1:24 am
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Oh brother!!! This censor police is getting ridiculous!!! It
actually censors the word H*eroin. So, I had to add an * within'
the title to get around it. >:(
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Re: The H*eroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock
Star - Nikki Sixx
By: Mac Date: August 10, 2011, 8:13 am
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You ARE that awesome.
Seriously though, nice review.
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Re: The H*eroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock
Star - Nikki Sixx
By: ChipRawks Date: August 10, 2011, 8:17 am
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Thanks dude.
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