This is Gonna Hurt

I finished the book This is Gonna Hurt By Nikki Sixx. What a amazing book. I really enjoyed this and the pictures are amazing. He is really talented. If you pick this book up with out know much and looking at the pictures and you judge it by that alone and think he is one crazy guy . You are missing out. He is a crazy guy but he has a point. And he makes it by explaining himself and the pictures. By the end of the book I was looking for different things in the pictures then what I thought I was seeing. He made me open my eyes to some of the things I was doing. For a book to do that was a great gift to me. So now that it is signed by him only adds to the book more. Nikki you are one amazing guy. Great Job with the book. His whole point is don't judge someone or something by what they look like.
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This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experiences—from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Motley Crue, to his death from an OD and his eventual rebirth through 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.

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This review is from: This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx (Hardcover)

Bottom line, this book is amazing! It's part photo chronicle and part journal, and will be accompanied by the release of an original soundtrack from SIXX AM in May. If you like Nikki, you'll love this book. The stories and pictures capture all of his creative qualities: his love, rage, optimism, darkness, and determinism. It basically covers his life from the struggles of his youth to the success of Motley Crue, to his OD on heroin, through his struggles with sobriety, and to his love of music and photography. Nikki said he wants to "take you on the journey" he is on, and he succeeds. Raw and powerful, fascinating and intriguing are words that come to mind when turning the pages. The image quality is exceptional, and they are both beautiful and scary. They successfully tell the story of a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending. Nikki incorporates stories behind the pictures and includes interviews with his subjects so you can see "what life is like for those whom society has labeled as freaks." This includes a woman who can't grow, a man over seven feel tall, and a naked obese woman. All in all, this book makes you react, which is what I think Nikki had in mind when he created it. Highly recommended!!!!

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."