The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
|
List Price: Our Price: $8.52 You Save: $6.48 (43%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $4.52 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of The Basketball Diaries
Book Review: I recomend this book to all.
Summary: 4 Stars
I believe this was a great book overall. However I do think that the vocabulary in this book was a little over my head. I believe this book was wriiten for a younger audience, and with the words that Carrol chose to use it would be hard to understand. Once you pass over the vocab you will enjoy the book.Book Review: Good Read
Summary: 4 Stars
The Basketball Diaries is sad because it's honest. It's gripping because it's real. I recommend this book that captures the life of talent gone to waste through the fall of addiction. Although it's not one of my all-time reads - you won't be dissapointed that you picked it up.Book Review: Basketball Diaries
Summary: 4 Stars
I reads this book many years ago and wanted to reread it. I loved the story and the way it was told, firsthand and very gritty. A must read if you are interested in the New York City of the late sixties and early seventies.
Book Review: Don't pollute your mind or give it any artistic credence
Summary: 1 Stars
Overcompensation for his fundamental assessment that he is unredeemed trash. Tedious, self absorbed, and boring in a way that only a life of getting a next fix or hustle can be...which means that the majority of Carroll's worldview is the stall of a public bathroom. The lame narrative contrasts with Trinity School days and the clean-cut world of athleticism and basket ball versus his rough trade street life is such an obvious transition anyone else would have fallen asleep before making it up as their effort to construct his life as a work of art. One suspects this poetry was originally written on toilet paper and should have been flushed. Unfortunately it was preserved; and the whole disgusting mess is served up here. Don't pollute your mind or give it any artistic credence.Book Review: Ugh.
Summary: 1 Stars
Could have been interesting, but this book was so foul (language) I had difficulty staying with it. It has remained, unfinished, on my bookshelf.