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NIKKI SIXX: 'The Heroin Diaries' Paperback Edition Due In October - Sep. 4, 2008

The paperback edition of MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx's memoir, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star", will be released on October 28, 2008. Fans can pre-order their copy at the official Nikki Sixx online store.

"The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star" (originally released September 18, 2007 via MTV Pocketbooks/Simon & Schuster) debuted at #7 on The New York Times Book Review non-fiction best-seller list.

Twenty-five percent of the book's profits are being donated to Running Wild In The Night — Sixx's fundraising initiative for Covenant House California, which helps keep runaway, abused and abandoned youth off the streets.

The 400-plus page book, written in part with journalist Ian Gittins, is a brutally honest look at Sixx's hellish year, one which saw him overdose and be declared clinically dead at one point while MÖTLEY CRÜE toured behind its "Girls, Girls, Girls" album. The book also features interviews Gittins did with bandmates, friends and family members, interviews Sixx says pull no punches.

"They would say things like, 'He was undependable, he was a bit of a dictator when it came to the music but I love Nikki,' " Sixx told Sun Media. "I'm like, 'That's a fucking waste of my time!' Let's get into the meat of it and get into it. Ian got in there and really pulled out what was going on and peeling away all the stuff that's going on now."

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	COMMENT \| posted by : punishmentdue 9/4/2008 9:40:30 PM

	So once they've made all their extra money from the HARD COVER then they'll lower the price... hmm makes sense I guess

	COMMENT \| ^^^ posted by : Dave Levine 9/4/2008 9:49:30 PM

	That's how it's always done dude. You actually didn't know that a hardcopy always comes out before a soft cover. I can't believe that people actually try to make every attempt to put this guy down for being a cash grabber with this book when the vast majority of the profits went to fucking charity. The $50.00 guitar pick is just stupid. That I will admit. The book, however, was good and it was honest. It is also for a good cause.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Ballzworth 9/4/2008 9:59:37 PM

	amazing book. just fucking great!!!

	COMMENT \| Great Book posted by : gocubs1815 9/4/2008 11:07:44 PM

	I read that thing cover to cover earlier this year and it was as hellish a read for me as it was a year for Nikki! I can't believe some of the shit he did.

	COMMENT \| I'll wait posted by : Sinned 9/4/2008 11:15:24 PM

	When will the audiobook come out? I'd torrent that shit. Or get the e-book for my Kindle.

	COMMENT \| the book was honest?? posted by : sparticle 9/5/2008 1:45:50 AM

	Sure dude.. This book is one over exaggerated mess, that's what it is.

	COMMENT \| I dunno posted by : glenecho 9/5/2008 2:13:37 AM

	I love the classic Crue records, but everything they do lately, including this book (which I know isn't exactly NEW but still) just reeks of pure nostalgic hype. Great...you guys did lots of drugs...you banged women...you cruised the strip...Nikki almost died. And you won't quit reminding us of it! It's all over their latest album...it's on their countless stupid documentaries on TV...Tommy Lee's stupid book. I agree with the poster above me...I think it's all overexaggerated. Nobody who goes through all of that likes to keep reminding everyone of it ad nauseum. Hype designed to sell the "baddest boys of rock n roll" image.

	COMMENT \| Cheers to Andy McCoy posted by : Jim Traficant 9/5/2008 2:36:35 AM

	...for teaching this dood how to shoot heroin and then stuffing him in a dumpster when he immediately OD'd. Best part of the book, and hats off to Sixxi I guess for including the story.

	COMMENT \| ??? posted by : EricDreamada 9/5/2008 9:13:36 AM

	Wait....hold the phone....you mean to tell me that Nikki Sixx did Heroin?! and DIED?! then when he came back to life, he made a band about it?!

	COMMENT \| posted by : RiotAct666 9/5/2008 11:27:38 AM

	Great book.

	COMMENT \| posted by : Lethal 9/5/2008 2:05:33 PM

	Wow, overexaggerated, obvioulsy a couple of you have never known a heroin addict. This book isn't overexxagerated, it's the ugly and honest truth. Didn't paint a pretty picture of Nikki, but then this addiction is in no way pretty. I'm married to someone who has battled this for 3 years now, trust me in no way is his book an overexaggeration of this addiction. It paints the most vivid picture it, like noone else has had the balls to do before.

	COMMENT \| Kuddos to Nikki posted by : Devil's Deja Vu 9/5/2008 3:54:47 PM

	For being honest

	COMMENT \| posted by : Dave Levine 9/5/2008 4:35:18 PM

	Exactly, you guy don't know any junkies. This is typical for many junkies to live like this. This book is honest but not any different than the same OD's that junkies go through, the same cocaine psychosis paranoia, the same self hatred, the same anticipation for the dealer, the same blood dripping all over, the same isolation and all of it. Once again, he isn't exaggerating or saying anything new at all. About as typical as it gets for an addict except he had more money.

	COMMENT \| posted by : LordofSalem 9/5/2008 9:07:42 PM

	Just in time for my birthday!

	COMMENT \| Pnktaco... posted by : Sixx28 9/15/2008 2:41:46 AM

	You're just a waste of space here...but not only here on this forum but on this earth...How you POSSIBLY managed to beat out all the other sperm and emerge victorious is beyond me. Go crawl back into your momma's ass

	COMMENT \| fuck nikki sixx posted by : Mark72 6/25/2009 8:49:56 AM

	andy did not dumb nikki in a dumbster.. u can read andy's interview how the things really went.. and how nikki can know that when he is passed out ???

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