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The Basketball Diaries

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The audio version of The Basketball Diaries is no less intense than the book itself. The author reads his book with great feeling for details. No one could have better interpreted it than Jim Carroll himself. Just the way he reads the book, he's telling a story. As a little "extra-treat", Lenny Kaye (guitar player for Patti Smith and Jim Carroll) accompanies the reading with music. If you have never listened to Audio Literature before, this is an excellent book to do so for the first time!

I wasn't sure about ordering a USED book online. I've ordered new books but not used. It was a success: looked like new and came in a few weeks. I am happy with it =)

Every teen should read this book. I was 14 the first time I read it and it was the first book I ever actual read from cover to end. I could not put it down.

What can I say? THE BASKETBALL DIARIES instantly became one of my favorite books when I read it three years ago. I've read it five times since--Jim's articulately and beautifully expressed observations changed the way I see things.

the audiobook is on a plane of its own. To hear the voice of this fascinating personality reading his own diaries was spellbinding--I am overwhelmed by this book again and again, every time I read it.