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The Heroin Diaries: 10 Year Anniversary Edition

By: Nikki Sixx
Narrated by: Nikki Sixx,Sophie Kargman,Ross Marquand
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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.

©2007 Nikki Sixx (P)2017 S&S Audio

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Don’t waste your credit

Be Prepared to not like Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx is not a likeable person even when he gets sober he’s not a person I’d want to hang out with
I understand that addicts are selfish people who blame everyone else for their problems but
Nikki Sixx doesn’t understand that his problems start and end with himself and until he understands that I doubt he will stay sober
There is only so much time that you can listen to him whining about his childhood not making enough money and his Constant jealousy of other bands who have more talent than him
The female voice reading the female parts is incredible annoying her attempts to do different voices for different people are awful
I really wouldn’t waste your credit because all you are going to learn is addicts will do anything for that next fix and you already know that

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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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you don't have to be a hard rock fan to love this

I've never been a rock fan particularly but I like reading autobiographies about people and their lives. this book is both interesting, entertaining, and important in equal measure. I have read it twice now, a really good memoir. in fact I have loved it so much I've found myself now checking out Motley and GnR's back catalogues! maybe I'm more of a rock fan than I think.

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I loved it!

I wanted to understand more about the perspective of a drug addict. About the way they think and why are they living their life that way. This was very heplful for me since I didn't have much exposure to a world of drugs and rock n' roll. Thank you for writing the book!

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Prepare yourself for an uneasy ride...

This is an incredibly open, honest and ugly account of Nikki's years of drug abuse. Nothing is hidden from the listener / reader, this is not a glamorous account of sex and drugs and rock n roll. Nikki leaves literally nothing to the imagination and, despite decades of listening to some of Motley Crues contemporaries, I hadn't quite imagined the behaviour going on behind the scenes. Full credit to Nikki for sharing everything and for coming back from the edge. Fully recommend this book to people who can handle a full warts and all account of the dark side of drug use.

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utter tripe

this was one of the worst, trashiest pieces of self indulgent drivel I have had the misfortune to encounter. boring , trite bullcrap. I was hoping he would just die. I regretted buying it after a few minutes

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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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how crazy real rock stars lived their lives!!

I really enjoyed this, I had a blast listening to it from start to finish

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His life and his continuous for creativity

I’ve played his book over and over again it’s cool he narrated it too. The most part I liked his passion and creativity on photography and donating to charities. Plus his voice sounds cool on his audio.

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A stunningly honest and brutal account

I'm no Motley Crüe fan but I'm now a Nikki Sixx fan.

The world is a better place for hearing his story and have big him around. He'd not heaved believed that in 1987.

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