The Basketball Diaries

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.


If you havent already, read it!   January 15, 2000
kmonnery@yahoo.com (England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

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.


Really very good indeed   January 10, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

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 self destruction is very uplifting; despite the way it ends you know he's going up, like a cork under water. My only gripe is that it made the movie (which I saw first and enjoyed) look really rather shallow; that's not a proper one though so just ignore that.


moohaha< v v good indeed   December 27, 1999
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

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. It tells the story without the glamour of the film. I don't like books or reading as a matter of fact, but this i finished. I Recommend it...