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How long does it take to read The Heroin Diaries?

Nikki Sixx

The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx takes about 7 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 34 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2000. 413 pages, about 113,575 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 37 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 34 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 44 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

n one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. 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 those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly 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.

Subjects: Autobiography, Biography, Drug addiction, Rock music, Rock musicians, Drug addicts

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