- Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Australia; New edition edition (30 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140249990
- ISBN-13: 978-0140249996
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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61,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > American Sports > Basketball
- #66 in Books > Biography > Novelists, Poets & Playwrights > Poets
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Written between the ages of twelve and fifteen, this diary tells the story of Jim Carroll, a kid growing up stealing, hustling, getting high, playing basketball, and trying to find something pure on the streets of New York.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
As a basketball player,this book was interesting. As a homosapien, this book was excellent. Not only does Jim Carroll have a talent for basketball but he also has a talent for writing. In the book, he describes everything he feels in such a way that would make you feel as though you were there with him. This book is funny, entertaining, and leaves you drawing up a perspective on life in the same way that Carroll does. I also reccomend the music of 'The Jim Caroll band' which has as much feeling as his words do. A great book for just about anybody!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
When I first read this book at the age of 15 (4-5 years ago now) I was so enthralled. Its one of those books that you can't put down, and want to read over and over again. Now, even after all this time, I am still re-reading it.
It dipicts a life so different from my own, yet despite this, I could and still can, relate perfectly to all the feelings and emotion bought upon Jim during those teenage years of drug addiction and violence.
This is most definitly a book for the open minded.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is an interesting insight into the life of Jim Carroll. If you have seen the film of the basketball diaries you must read the book in order to get the full picture. Carroll starts his book with notes from his school days and childhood and moves on through the next few years with suprising acuracy. Talking about his gradual decline into heroin addiction, he recalls many memories - some funny and some rather discusting. Excellent Read. Let me know what you think.
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My favourite book ever!
I've read this book at least 10 times. And i just finished it again, and i think i might start re-reading it..again. Best book ever. Read more
Published 6 months ago by kym
AMAZING!
Jim Carroll was born to be a writer. This diary is written with such wonderful detail and description, that you actually feel that you are him, this 14 to 17 year old boy, roaming... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Miss
1970s New York youth - told with verve and authenticity.
Don't be put off by the dodgy Di Caprio vehicle from a few years back...This book has to be one of the finest debut novels around from the last 50 years or so. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Paul Harris
read the book
I have read this book around 6 times in the 12 years or so I have know about it, Carrolls passage of rites that ultimately leads him to heroin addiction is by turns funny,sad,... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2009 by C. R. Green
Really very good indeed
This book is quite hard to call good, it's not really relevant somehow. It is however something which will stay with you, it's conveyance of brilliance (read his poems) overcoming... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2000
moohaha< v v good indeed
Yeah it was good....blah blah blah, i read this book in the hope that it would give jim carroll a little more credit than the films efforts. It did. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 1999
THE BEST BOOK EVER!!
This is a really great book!! I got it for my birthday in 1998 and I've read it a million times since then. This truly is one of the best books ever published! Read more
Published on 4 Sep 1999
Little or nothing to do with basketball.
Hugely disappointing, barely believable, rather sad story about drug taking, out of control adolescents, who also happen to play basketball. Read more
Published on 8 April 1999
Apsolutely great!
If you haven't read this book, you missed a lot! I warmly suggest you should read it and see the movie, too. The greatest book I have ever read!!
Published on 31 Oct 1998
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