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The Basketball Diaries
The Basketball Diaries
Author: Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll's memoir of his adolescent years in the early 1960s attending Trinity School on Manhattan's Upper West Side, playing basketball, and getting high on a various combinations of chemicals, alcohol, and narcotics is a classic of its kind. His cast of characters, mostly drawn from real life, includes neighbors, teachers, and classmates.
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ISBN-13: 9780140249996
ISBN-10: 0140249990
Publication Date: 4/1/1995
Pages: 224
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  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 33 ratings
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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scrapbooklady avatar reviewed The Basketball Diaries on + 472 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Jim Carroll is truly a gifted writer. His diary brings the New York City streets of the mid-60's to life. His vivid descriptions of growing up as a street wise kid on the mean city streets clearly paint a picture of the period.
mariablank avatar reviewed The Basketball Diaries on + 4 more book reviews
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This the best book that I have ever read. Jim Carroll has taken something so ugly and awful and made it beautiful. The movie was awful.Read the book.
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reviewed The Basketball Diaries on + 12 more book reviews
Not a bad book, but left some things to be desired. At times he rambled on a little too quick with too much slang to follow along. I understand that just fits with the style/personality of the book. And it had no ending. It was literally just over, like maybe I was missing pages. Again I understand its a diary so it shouldn't end. Overall a quick read, and something that didn't take too much thought.
murder101 avatar reviewed The Basketball Diaries on
so much better of a book than a movie. Jim Carroll is a multi talented person , Good story
ouischbabe avatar reviewed The Basketball Diaries on + 9 more book reviews
I watched the movie first, and I liked it. Than I read the book and LOVED it. The movie was a let down after the fact. Not only was Jim Carroll real, but he experienced so many things as a teenager that most adults have never done. He is a poet.
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I am going to read the book but i watched the movie and it was really good.


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