Books The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Rating: - What I Expected: Classic Crue
This book is a classic. I have read it countless times, and still find it to be one of the best rock autobiographies around. Motley Crue: Iconic, Complex, Tragic. These guys are so human, and that is why I love this book. I personally dislike their music greatly: always did, always will. However, the four amazing people who talk about themselves in this book are worthy of their status.

Nikki Sixx is the total geek, low self esteem-having, "make myself over into an icon" leader; Tommy is the comic foil to Nikki's serious tone; the stereotypical drummer: childlike, inarticulate, very physical. Vince is the classic vocalist: brash, self absorbed, but in truth the most sensitive of the members. The perrson I respect the most in the band is definitely Mick Mars: schizophrenic for sure, but he knows the members of the band better than they know themselves. He is the most down to earth, and the least self-pitying.

This book is very enjoyable because these four men are very bit the comic-book characters they portrayed onstage, and unbelievably human, and real in spite of that.

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Rating: - Heartwarming, Inspirational, Should Be on Every 5th Grade Reading List!!
Just joking. My first concert ever was Motley Crue at Madison Square Garden back in 1987 and I still remember all those feelings of awe, rebellion, excitement and raging hormones they inspired to my 13 year old psyche and I suppose they were doing a good job of being rockstars since they accomplished all of that for me. And maybe it's the memory of how they made me feel as a young teenager (before I knew what really good music was) that gives me the mixed emotions I have about this book. These guys are spoiled rotten, ego-maniacal, mediocre musicians who happened to capitalize on a "look" and "sound" in a pretty bad musical era that decided its heroes based on how high they could tease their hair. If they'd come on the scene a decade later, they would have been laughed at. Their antics are child-like, their drug-abuse and womanizing is nothing more than a rock cliche, and their ability as musicians is minimal. They take themselves (and their music WAY too seriously) and I can't help but notice how their music really isn't the center of their attention in this account. Music seems to be a means of getting what they're really after: drugs, whores, ego and money. It occurs to me that any serious musician writing his memoirs would spend more time talking about his life's work than bragging about how he and some groupies gave new meaning to the AT&T phrase, "reach out and touch someone" or boasting about snorting Ozzy's urine through a cocaine straw.

Despite all that, I have to say that somehow, this book was humorous and entertaining and will definitely give you a good laugh at just how gluttonous and sleazy the music industry was in the 1980s. After this read, you will suddenly feel nostalgic enough to tease your hair and go and download Shout at the Devil,just for old times sake.

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Rating: - Outrageous, flabbergasting, obnoxious...and incredibly fun
All of these things...and more. What a book!!!! I PROMISE you - you won't put this down. You'll spend time with Ozzy, Nikki Sixx's addictions, his death and resurrection, Tommy Lee's women, Vince Neil's drinking and Mick Mars' diseases. Like a good movie...this is the type of book that you don't want to end. It's on to reading The Heroin Diaries for me now. Was never a huge Crue fan - was always more of a GNR or Metallica guy, but now am going back and jamming to all their old songs. GET THIS BOOK!!!!

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Rating: - Great insight to a notorious band
This is a great book, the ones with the most struggle are Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil. Another reviewer had it right Tommy is spoiled. Mick Mars has just proven once again that he is a mystery that no one can crack. I would have like to have seen more from him, maybe with his memoirs (?).

When reading this you should really read Nikki Sixx's book The Heroin Diaries. It gives a broader insight to the whole band and how far everyone, especially he had sunk.