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July 06, 2001: Yeah, this wasn'y really my type of flava but it is a good book. It's Icebergs' last know written book. everybody by now should be hip 2 PIMP, THE STORY OF MY LIFE & TRICKBABY etc....In my opinion Robert Beck A.K.A Iceberg is one of the best yet under rated writters. He not only writes bout' the world 'SQUARES' only see in moveis and read in fiction novels, but he brings in the that underworld that is very real back in the 20's 30's 40's 60's 70's and in now present time...

Author Robert Beck, better known by his ghetto pseudonym, "Iceberg Slim," again displays his unique and compelling talent in this novel about the Mafia – an organization whose working details he knows intimately. It's an ideal setting for Beck's superb characterization as he portrays the greedy Don Jimmy Collucci, who wants nothing less than to rule the "honored society"; dedicated black warrior Jessie Taylor, who is driven to destroy it; and the dozens of people whose lives and fates are entwined...

Propelled by the story of Joe "Kong" Allen and his gorgeous, treacherous wife, Doom Fox is the last in Iceberg Slim's legendary series of underground novels. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, Doom Fox is a tale of the Los Angeles ghetto that begins just after World War II and spans the next thirty years. In the no-holds-barred tradition of Chester Himes, Doom Fox captures a violent, vivid world of low-riding chippie-catchers, prizefighters, prostitutes, and smooth-talking preachers. Iceberg...

August 12, 2003: This book turned out to be good. It started slow and boring, that's because it was opening you up to the con game. It ended leaving you asking that question, Why is it over. I wanted more. This book talked about how cruel people treated 1 person because of his skin color, but he did not give up!

slim gets, real in this very personal,who said slim cries too much, the man was just remeniscing over events of his life, especially the life of a black man trapped in the darkworlds of the underworld, berg describes the hell every black man must go through,in his excistence-pure hell, he describes what a pimp must do to stay ahead of the game, i liked how he told that young dude the real deal about pimping, and that he has tremendous odds against him, yes kiddies not anyone can be a pimp, do not...

The story of Otis Tilson, an incredibly comely and tragic homosexual queen. The dialogue is in the gut idiom of the queer-the black ghetto-the ddep south-the underworld-the world of Iceberg Slim, Otis Tilson and his family. It is the story of the black men living in ghetto torture chambers, men who have been and continue to be niggerized and deballed bt the poisonus pus of double-standard justice, racial bigotry, and criminal economic freeze-out, and of the price paid by their children. In this case...