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8% of people buy This is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx and The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star ~ Paperback ~ Nikki Sixx.
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"Must read for Nikki Sixx fans"
Great photography, and really well written
"Change my view on life"
This book by Nikki Sixx the bassit from Motley Crue and Sixx A.M is amazing. He explains how he perceives the world in his unique way. It is also tied to Sixx A.M's album This is Gonna Hurt
"Sixx stars out of Five!"
Sixx is back, in the follow-up to the successful “Herion Diaries” Motley Crue's Bassist Nikki Sixx returns to give more accounts of his tormented and twisted life.
“This Is Gonna Hurt” takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through his life as he has witnessed it, candid thoughts and views are written within this memoir of a changed mans life.
“This Is Gonna Hurt” gives us an insight of the multi talented artist that Sixx has become – from chaotic times with Motley Crue, to the new found passion for life, photography and music…and he does this in a stunningly put together book. Actually I wouldnt call this a book…It is a work of art! This isnt just words on a page – it's superbly presented with an almost gothic approach to delivering Nikki's story.
Nikki's photo's emblazen pages throughout the book, along with song lyrics from both Motley Crue and his new side project Sixx A.M. Theres black pages, white pages, pages printed to look like old parchment – this really is an exceptionally produced book!
As was the case with the “Herion Diaries” I have found that also having the same titled soundtrack music cd can add even further to the reading experience – songs fall into line and “tell” the written story with raw emotion that maybe the reader just wont feel without listening to the story…
I highly recommend this book – especially to any rock fan!
"essential reading for nikki sixx fans"
if youre a nikki sixx fan you must have this book,this man is amazing,very interesting..thanks mighty ape for having this book at the cheapest price around......thanks nikki,for making me understand beauty is within.....susan
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Few of us have experienced life with the intensity, fury, and reckless abandon of Nikki Sixx, the wild rock star, driven entrepreneur, devoted father, former addict, bestselling author, and gifted photographer.
“This Is Gonna Hurt” is part photo, part journal – but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling snapshots and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness,and determination that shape his work.
Told with the raw authenticity that defined his “New York Times” bestseller “The Heroine Diaries”, “This Is Gonna Hurt” chronicles Sixx's experience, from his early years filled with toxic waste to his success with Motley Crue, his death from an OD and rebirth to his addictions to music, photography, and love. Love story, bad-ass rock tell-all, social commentary, family memoir, “This Is Gonna Hurt” offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending-a search that fuels Sixx's being.
‘I want to take you on the journey I am on, in real time’, Sixx writes. If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.
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“In this, his second book, MÖTLEY CRÜE and SIXX: A.M. bassist NIKKI SIXX aims "to show people life through different-colored lenses,” and that he certainly does by way of photographing “the oddities in life.” In fact, nearly 150 photographs of amputees, midgets, drug addicts, prostitutes, the obese, the disfigured, the homeless, and the generally decrepit – all shot by Sixx – are featured in this lavish 220 page book. Ultimately, this is Sixx's “struggle to make people see that different isn't always bad.” The accompanying text is comprised of personal life lessons, journal entries and musings on sobriety, creativity and music. Refusing to hold anything back, Nikki questions how Mötley “went from being best friends… to not really knowing one another.” In fact he states, “The only thing bigger than my love for this band is the heartbreak it can bring me.” Further revelatory details include Sixx's daily transcendental meditation, his belief that “your ego is not your amigo” and that “pain is a gift. It's an opportunity to make things better.” A therapeutic process, Nikki is adamant that “this book has uncorked me in places I didn't know were stuck.” Arguably the most profound statement contained within This Is Gonna Hurt reads as follows: “Don't waste your death on a half-assed life.” By Aaron Small
Author Biography
Born Frank Feranna, Nikki Sixx grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for Motley Crue, the legendary rock band he started with friend Tommy Lee. Today he is a family man with many projects on the side, including songwriting, film, a new band, a clothing line, as well as ongoing work with the Crue. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries.
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Like his First book, its AMAZING, hard to put down, makes you want to read right to the end of the book in one night, well thats how I felt. Nikki tells you about his views on life, and how everyone in the world, no matter what they look like, are all the same on the inside.
This book is a must buy if you liked his first one.