Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973

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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: the book 'Go Ask Alice' was a wonderful book. It truely discribed how it is to leave home and be out on the street doing drugs and screwing people you don't even know. The book made me really start thinking about life and myself. I love reading these kinds of books, there have such meaning. Even though it may sound like another dumb persons problems,this girls life and problems are vary intreging. I strongly recemend this book to almost anyone, espically to people who are expiramenting with drugs and sex. This book may help you choose what you really want to do with your life and weather or not it includes drugs.I think the author here did a wonderful job. This book is a happy book and a sad book and that is a really great quality. I love this book and think everyone should read it and see how hard it can be out there. Maybe we can learn to change and help people less fortunate then ourselfs from this heart moving book.

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Summary: better than Basketball Diaries
Review: this book may not be as exciting as times as B.B.D but it is certantily better as there is more to the book than screwing around with drugs all the time.

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Summary: Looking In At Himself (Jim Carroll's amazing!)
Review: This is not a book of records, jam-packed with the daily happenings and sometime wondering why. No, it's not The Basketball Diaries, and Jim Carroll's no longer a basketball star, a cool street kid just starting to try Heroin and to expereince the lows of street life. Here, he's a star on the New York art scene, having dealt w/his addiction for quite some time now. He leave nyc, then comes back, all the while writing it down and looking for the answer to why/how/etc. inside himself. It doesn't have the energy and excitement of The Basketball Diaries, and it may leave you wondering what happened, but it's the raw and naked truth that shine. One of the best books ever written, you have to read it to appreciate its beauty!