This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

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Billie Zahurak, April 24, 2012 (view all comments by Billie Zahurak)
Nikki Sixx is amazing - and you don't even have to like his music. In order to appreciate this book, however, I would recommend a tad interest in the macabre. Sixx's photographs are disturbing, deep, and thought provoking. My favorite thing about this collection? The fact that it made me see beauty where I might have missed it. It's opened my eyes, not just while looking at his book, but in the world, as well. I see beauty in people and things I may not have opened my mind to before. I would think that's EXACTLY what a collection of photographs should do.

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mbtm2003, September 1, 2011 (view all comments by mbtm2003)
I have to admit that I was not a big Crue fan back in the 80s. You can't get really get any more extreme than this band. However, with the advent of easily getting information these days, fans get to learn the backstory of various people. Having learned the backstory of Nikki Sixx through various media outlets, I grew to appreciate him as an artist as well as a person. This book has further solidified my appreciation for this guy. It also further explained how he became the person he is today - both good and bad. No, I didn't always agree with his past behaviour, but he has grown up and changed somewhat in his almost 53 years of life. The thing about him is that he is extremely honest and forthright, perhaps to a fault. However, given the state of his growing up years, it is quite easy to see how he came to be as Nikki Sixx. Get the audio version of his latest book to hear him read his own words. There are parts that are laugh-out-loud-hysterically funny and some parts that reduced me to tears. The final few pages really had a huge effect on changing my thinking. He is loud and proud as well as talented - a modern-day renaissance man for the new millenia. These days, I am proud to consider myself a fan of whatever he does, from music to art to photography to radio host. Whatever else you can say about Nikki Sixx, he definitely is thought-provoking!

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780062061874

Author:

Sixx, Nikki

Publisher:

William Morrow & Company

Author:

Portis, Antoinette

Subject:

Personal Memoirs

Subject:

Popular Culture - General

Subject:

School & Education

Subject:

Biography-Composers and Musicians

Edition Description:

Hardcover

Publication Date:

20110431

Binding:

HARDCOVER

Grade Level:

from PreS to 3

Language:

English

Pages:

224

Dimensions:

10 x 8 in 22.80 oz

Age Level:

from 4 to 8