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Product details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; First Edition edition (July 7, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140100180
ISBN-13: 978-0140100181
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.4 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
107 customer reviews
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#58,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Whether you believe any of these stories actually occurred is really not the point of a contemporary reading of this classic Kerouac/Ginsberg era troupe through New York City's emerging drug sub-culture. Jim Carroll, in all of his hip early `60s rap and rhetorical escapades, delivers a stunningly irreverent but amazingly still relevant tome about maturation in the blighted streets and overwhelmingly potent drug society of the early 1960s New York counter-culture era. In this profound "diary," we watch as a pre-eminently street-smart 13 year old weed-smoking, LSD popping and occasional Heroin seeking basketball hero deteriorates into a 16 year old junkie, resorting to whatever means possible to get money for his next fix.The obvious and pre-eminent contemporary reason for taking this short work on is to compare it with the 1995 blockbuster film of the same name starring Leonardo DeCaprio. The comparable titles is where the similarities end however...the book and the film are completely different. And in this reviewer's opinion, and as is almost always the case, this book far exceeds the movie.Starting in the Fall of 1963, we're immediately thrown into Carroll's world of mid-town Manhattan as he romps with a variety of like-minded youth and city scum. With a constant theme of drug searching overwhelming each entry, Carrol extols in very clear and contemporarily charming 1960's hip New York language his escapades getting high, having sex, getting into small but growing criminal activity and becoming a general nuisance. The basketball entries are very cool also... at one point he's at a youth tournament where they've ousted "Lewie" Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabber) for being too good; also Carroll hangs with Earl Manigault (The famous "Goat" from Harlem) and other "Spades who can leap so high they can take a quarter off the top of the backboard and leave change." But as his drug use grows, his basketball skills diminish to the point where it's hardly mentioned by the end of the book.If there is any criticism, I'd say that the aura that this book has exuded over time as being great literature is definitely a farce...this isn't great writing at all (although Carroll does go on to publish books of poetry and novels which I haven't read), it's draw is the stark reality of its subject and background. The total irreverency and sensibility of being lost and downcast are so prevalent here and so pronounced that they literally turn the pages for you. Be aware though of the explicit manner in which Carroll describes his desperate longings for "the nod," especially toward the end of the work...it is absolutely true that the strung out addict will do anything to get that fix. Carroll pulls no punches in performing these acts nor telling about them.Taken in the correct context, this is an amazing work full of meaning and emotion while fully symbolizing a time and place that's become culturally historic. Whether hippie, sociologist, historian or someone looking for an off-beat but still mesmerizing read, "The Basketball Diaries" is the for you.
This is the classic addiction memoir, a nice antidote to the James Freys and Nikki Sixxs pushing bathetic, crypto-Christian lies about the “evils†of drugs. An edited collection of the diaries Jim Carroll kept when he was a teenager, they detail his life growing up in mid-60′s New York City, shooting heroin, snatching purses and selling himself to gay guys for drug money. Carroll is anchored by his skills at playing basketball, as an athletic scholarship lifts him out of the slums and into a posh private school, where he continues his hustling and smack-injecting ways.Carroll’s prose style is relentlessly frank and fast, spilling every detail of his hustles, highs and bangs in delicious detail. However, his rapid fire, Kerouac-esque method of writing in huge multi-page paragraphs got on my nerves after a while. Like Kerouac’s On the Road, The Basketball Diaries is intended to be read while you’re still young and searching for a philosophical pier to anchor your boat to. Additionally, the book doesn’t really end, but trails off into nothingness as Carroll spirals into robbing people at knifepoint to pay for his heroin addiction.Even with these flaws, though, The Basketball Diaries is a classic of American literature for a reason. If you’re looking for an honest and gritty memoir of teenage alienation and struggle, check this one out.
A college classic. This isn't great literature by any stretch of the imagination, but every disaffected 19-year-old boy who's ever read it has come away changed. Also, reading it now as a middle-aged grown-up, I am certain that many parts of the diaries were edited later, and are close to bulls***. I lived in NYC back then, and it's not quite how things went down. But still, I would recommend gifting this book to any college student who's the least bit hip. I read it in 1979 or so, and 35 years later it still sizzles.
18 year old son became interested in NYC in the 70's and 80's. Jim Carroll was New York, for the good and the bad, and this book is an overlooked master-class in true. the kid got it, loved it and lived up to his promise -- he read it before watching the movie. great generational share and worth the time to read and gift.
Jim Carroll was a great writer especially considering the fact that most of this was written when he was a teenager. The seller sent this promptly and in perfect condition. This book is great and very deep and personal. It really teaches about things that can be very dangerous and unhealthy and how one can lose themselves in something they think they have control of. It tells a lot more than the film. If you like the film or didn't like the film you should enjoy the book. Great writer. Great seller experience.
I last read this book about 30 years ago, so my memory is a bit hazy (maybe cuz I read this book and thought Jim Carroll was a role model), but all that aside, it was a very interesting account of growing up in NYC in the 60's. The movie kinda sucked, but maybe that's my anti DeCaprio bias. If you want similar movies that are much better, try Trianspotting, or Drugstore Cowboy (both available, I'm sure, on Amazon). Anyway, I digress it is a very good book. Jim Carroll is a talented writer, and his decent into heroin addiction seems to be realistic, and honest. It's very short, maybe 150-200 pgs, not much more than a novella, so worth a read.
I decided to read the book because I very much enjoy the movie. It is an extremely interesting but fairly short book. If you like the movie and dont mind picking up a book every now and again, its worth a read.
Son loved this book! I recommend it!
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