Anybody else read this? It's a collection of diaries from Jim Carroll, frontman of the Jim Carroll Band and prodigous poet, that were written during his time as a street kid in the 1960's, shooting heroin and causing all sorts of mayhem. There's honestly a lot in it the average drug user can relate to (Waiting for dope, getting ripped, etc.) even if you don't happen to play the ol' needle-in-the-arm game. I found it so interesting I've read it twice since I got it last Christmas. There was a movie made in 1995 with Leonardo DiCaprio and Marky Mark (Flea did the soundtrack). It wasn't particularly good in my opinion. They turned a complex narrative about dirt and passion and turned it into the standard downward-spiral drug use story, with a logical progression from smoking joints in the schoolyard to total heroin addiction. (Jim makes it very clear in the book he tried heroin before ever smoking pot.) Thoughts, criticisms?
I want to read the book but haven't gotten around to it yet :/ I did like the movie. But of course I haven't read the book and I have a particular liking for DiCaprio
He died on September the eleventh, which is two days from now. Besides he looks so excentric, which is no suprise because of his past, but still.
