- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books; Water Damaged edition (1 Jun 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140085025
- ISBN-13: 978-0140085020
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 337,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Recounts the atmosphere of New York City in the early Seventies and records his experiences with many now-famous bohemians and his waivering battles against drug addiction.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book may seem a little boring during the first few pages compared to the basketball diaries but continues to develop into an excellent read. The latter part of Jim Carrolls life turns out to be just as interesting as the beginning. If you have not read any Jim Carroll material before, start with the basketball diaries and then read this. The two books come together to form an extreemly interesting tale of life on the streets in Harlem during the 60's/70's. Let me know what you think.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not a book of records, jam-packed with the daily happenings and sometime wondering why. No, it's not The Basketball Diaries, and Jim Carroll's no longer a basketball star, a cool street kid just starting to try Heroin and to expereince the lows of street life. Here, he's a star on the New York art scene, having dealt w/his addiction for quite some time now. He leave nyc, then comes back, all the while writing it down and looking for the answer to why/how/etc. inside himself. It doesn't have the energy and excitement of The Basketball Diaries, and it may leave you wondering what happened, but it's the raw and naked truth that shine. One of the best books ever written, you have to read it to appreciate its beauty!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
(Sorry if I make some mistakes, my first langage is French. I hope you will at least understand my review. Thanks!)
Forced Entries is a real good book of Jim, but it's really different of «Basketball Diaries». In this first book, you read the real personnal thoughts of a young man living is life at 150%. What he write in his diary is exactly what he's living in New York City, and what are his deep feelings about it. It makes this book so intense and «real» that it reflects an incredible energy.
In «Forced Entries», you don't have this intensity, because Jim, in opposition of «The Basketball Diaries», didn't write it at the same time as he was living it. You don't feel the same energy as in «BDs». So if you are looking for a sequel that would be written the same way as the «BDs» were, you will be a little disappointed.
But the book in himself is really good! You can see, as you're reading the lines, that Jim's writting talent has grown since «BDs». The texts are longer and written with more attention. You can feel the work of Jim behind each line. In fact, the real difference with «BDs» is that when Jim makes an entry in «Forced Entries», it's not to just relate something that happened during the past few days. He look at it as a philosopher, a poet, and he gives his personnal reflexions on it. This book is a more mature one.
So, in conclusion, I would say that «Forced Entries» is a real great work of Jim Carroll. It's full of deep reflexions and toughts of Jim. But it doesn't has the intensity and the innocence of «The Basketball Diaries». In fact, nobody, not even Jim Carroll himself, can reach the level of energy and reality of «The Basketball Diaries», because it's the mind of a young boy of 14 years old put on paper. It had to be written one time, and Jim Carroll wrote it. So now, I think we have to look at his other works as books written in a different state of mind. You can never find back your child mind. So, if you read «Forced Entries» as an independent book and not as a sequel of «The Basketball Diaries», you will discover an exceptionnal writter and poet: Jim Carroll.
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Integrity of Vision
Over the past thirty years, poet, diarist, and rock musician Jim Carroll has proven himself a multifaceted artist of many talents, and what is most remarkable is the ease with... Read more
Published on 18 April 1999
Carroll at his best
I love this book. Wickedly insightful. Metaphors that are razor sharp. Anyone who thinks the Basketball Diaries is better than this obviously has a lot of growing up to... Read more
Published on 24 Dec 1998
touching and disturbing, very entertaining
great wording and lots of realistic details . Jim Carrol is one of the greatest writers.
Published on 7 July 1998
better than Basketball Diaries
this book may not be as exciting as times as B.B.D but it is certantily better as there is more to the book than screwing around with drugs all the time.
Published on 31 Mar 1998
Go Ask Alice
the book 'Go Ask Alice' was a wonderful book. It truely discribed how it is to leave home and be out on the street doing drugs and screwing people you don't even know. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 1998
great
I Think this book i cannot really relate to (unlike the basketball diaries)but it still was a big hit
for me but not as good as first
for me but not as good as first
Published on 2 Aug 1997
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