The Basketball Diaries, (Paperback)

from Polaris-

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. Heavily autobiographical, The Basketball Diaries is written with verve and authenticity. It's a rough story of growing up in early 70s Ne...

from Jennifyr

An amazing book about drug addiction and culture. A very quick read (I think I read it in one sitting), and shocking. It's hard to believe Jim Carroll faced this all at such a incredibly young age and created such an important work out of it, along with multiple other important pieces of writing....

from PatrickHackeling13

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll is the remarkable autobiography of the troubled teen, Jim Carroll, and his journey from promise to abyss to greatness. One of the top basketball players in New York City, Jim has to choose time and time again between drugs and ball. In the beginning he is abl...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

I read this when I was way too young. Way way before the movie, when, afik, nobody else was reading it. My mom would have had a fit.And then I reread it. At least twice. Intense, yes, and poetic, but also totally accessible. Tragic, in a way, but also hopeful, and even, at times, funny.I don't wa...

from Polaris-

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. Heavily autobiographical, The Basketball Diaries is written with verve and authenticity. It's a rough story of growing up in early 70s Ne...