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Title	:	The Basketball Diaries
Author	:	Jim Carroll
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	1995 by Penguin Books/Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (first published June 1st 1978)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Thriller

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 29292 Users | 501 Reviews

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The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.

"I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith

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Original Title:	The Basketball Diaries 1963-1966
Edition Language:	English

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I strongly recommend for those who dont regularly read.

I am a huge fan of the movie.... I didn't realise how young Carroll was when he wrote this and honestly I you would think he was in his 30s not 13-15.

Probably an influential starting point of lots of grimy drug novels to follow. I have a feeling this was edited and embellished enough from its journal origins to consider it as a novel, even if the basic events are plausible enough. Still, drug diary-novels aren't really the most exciting thing to read (the patterns of an addict are almost numbingly boring), what's of interest is mostly this particular slice of seamy 70s New York, the local color, the stories true or not, and the exhilaration,

I don't really remember a thing about this book except that I really did like it at the time that I read it, around age fourteen. When the movie came out I cut school and drank some cough syrup or something and went to go see the matinee by myself. This was in Leonardo DiCaprio's fleeting, long-past early-nineties moment of hotness, and in the movie -- which was bad -- he looked gorgeous and lanky leaping around on the basketball court in his Catholic schoolboy uniform -- dammmmmmn. Whew! Leo,

Sex, drugs and stealing purses.WINTER 1964My old lady found a nickel bag of grass in my hiding spot under the rug today and flushed it down the toilet. She had a long talk with me and asked me if I was addicted to the stuff. I told her it's heroin you get addicted to, not grass, and I think I finally convinced her. She was not so convinced that she'd give me back the five bucks though, when I asked her for it. In fact, I think she got a little angry about it.Jim Carroll's early teens growing up

Before there was a cop on every corner in New York, there were some of the most interesting characters frolicking around, bounding up and down the streets as if they were players in a real-life version of a very fucked up Wonderland. Pimps and prostitutes and transvestites and junkies and businessmen and children and you-name-it all blended together and somehow figured out a way to live a somewhat harmonious existence in this concrete jungle. This was the land of Jim Carrol. And it was in this

2,5/5. I had loved so much the movie adaptation with DiCaprio when I was young that I though this would be a great read. Unfortunately, I find it long, repetitive, and just not deep enough. It contains scene of drugs uses and basketball games and just not enough introspection has I would have like. Not what I was expecting and I was left on my appetite here...