Jim Carroll





Jim Carroll

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born
August 01, 1950 in New York, New York, The United States

died
September 11, 2009

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James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name with Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.


Average rating: 3.92 · 5,859 ratings · 350 reviews · 10 distinct works
The Basketball Diaries
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 4,234 ratings — published 1978 — 15 editions
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Forced Entries: The Downtow...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 1987
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Fear of Dreaming: The Selec...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Living at the Movies
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
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Void of Course
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1998
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The Petting Zoo
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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The Book of Nods
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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The Basketball Diaries and ...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1987
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The Basketball Diaries
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980
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3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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More books by Jim Carroll…
“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
Jim Carroll

“I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.


Jim Carroll, Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.”
Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

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