The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

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This diary gives insight into the self-serving life of a guy with authority issues, and while may have been considered groundbreaking, is an affront to people not given the opportunities Carroll had. Basis for the Hollywood version [1995 New Line Cinema] which starred Leonardo DiCaprio in the central role. For example, these passages are supposedly Carroll's authentic (although edited) teenage diary transcripts. After all, let’s be honest here; some books seem so fresh and exciting when first you read them but, years later (Steven King’s body of work is notorious for this), even the mention of the title can spark a cringe from those familiar, because those books seem so juvenile and pedantic years later. Haven't eaten except for three carrots and two Nestle's fruit and nut bars and both my forearms sore as shit with all the little specks of caked blood covering them.Below this, Carroll provides a quote attributed to the quasi-mystical medieval Persian war leader Hassan (-i) Sabbah which is also a key favorite of WSB: "Nothing is true; Everything is permitted. Carroll talks about his parents, saying that they try to draw him into arguments and political debates. The fictionalized memoir of juvenile delinquency and heroin abuse that inspired the 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Carroll and a friend skip class to shoot up heroin in a basement, and they nearly get caught by the police.

During the 1980s, Carroll released another poetry collection, The Book of Nods (1986), and his second collection of diaries, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries (1987).

To Carrol, this war is never a prominent fixture in his life, but to New Yorkers, who were constantly living in fear that the Russians would use this war as a way to attack the US, fear permeates through the streets. The book was made into a film of the same name in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll and Mark Wahlberg as Mickey. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).