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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: Bobby Spears
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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In The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, the fierce and lyrical icon for criminal reformation describes himself as "ill… from America's fake façade of justice and democracy. "For Iceberg Slim, the illness may have been a detriment, but for us it's a gift. His tales serve as a chilling reminder that we are all inmates of one prison or another, and the time to break free has arrived. Iceberg Slim's story is now depicted in a major motion picture, IcebergSlim: Portrait of a Pimp, which shows his transformation from pimp to the author of seven classic books.
Offering brutal, difficult-to-swallow tales from the underground, this audiobook exposes the author's inner workings in a way none of his others have, resulting in a straight-out, heartfelt confession.
As if Iceberg Slim's charismatic words weren't enough to evoke the essence of this time in his life - the LA underground of the 1960s - each character carries their own baggage, struggles, and influence on Slim's vision of the world.
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- By: SLMN
- Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Joey Diamonds is on the verge of being a “made” man, with ice-cold blue eyes that pierce through the hearts of women...and men. After being disowned by his Mafia family, losing the love of his life, and realizing the world at large is his enemy, Joey throws extreme caution to the wind on his journey of self-debauchery in the name of fame and fortune. The Purple Don is the story of how self-destruction is never simply an internal state, and everyone around can be destroyed in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was a good story!
- By tracey on 04-18-24
By: SLMN
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Hard Rain Falling
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary connement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class - married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But they will meet again....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Well Read, American Noir Novel from The 1960s
- By Frank Donnelly on 01-19-20
By: Don Carpenter
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The Choirboys
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 281
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch - shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap - each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitely Funny, Probably Offensive
- By John Strange on 12-18-14
By: Joseph Wambaugh
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City of Night
- By: John Rechy
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international best seller, and 50 years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A seminal classic
- By Robert Simmons on 09-22-19
By: John Rechy
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Fury
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- By David on 11-21-07
By: Salman Rushdie
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Tristessa
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Mike Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In 1955, novelist Jack Kerouac detoured from his cross-country American travels to Mexico City, where a group of junkie expatriates he had known from the New York City post-war scene had gone for the cheap and plentiful supply of heroin and morphine. Fellow beat writer William S. Burroughs, who had been a part of the Mexican expatriate community, had introduced Kerouac to Bill Garver (named Old Bull Gaines in the novel), a much-older, long-term addict who had in turn introduced Kerouac to Esperanza Villanueva, whom Kerouac named Tristessa in the novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gritty
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By: Jack Kerouac
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An American Dream
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- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, author Norman Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the listener by the throat and refuses to let go.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mailers Immodest masterpiece
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By: Norman Mailer
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Casanegra
- A Tennyson Hardwick Story
- By: Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson is an actor struggling to hang on to his career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family, especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "Sir". Now, in the wake of his father's sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for a murder. In the process, he discovers his hidden talents - the hard way.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What's The Beef?
- By James Gordon on 11-24-07
By: Blair Underwood, and others
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The Black Marble
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 73
He is a damned good cop -- a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner -- twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really bad
- By JEFF on 05-17-10
By: Joseph Wambaugh
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Shetani's Sister
- By: Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
In many ways Iceberg Slim's most mature fictional work, Shetani's Sister relates, in taut, evocative vernacular torn straight from the street corner, the deadly duel between two complex antiheroes: Sergeant Russell Rucker, an LAPD vice detective attempting to clean up street prostitution and police corruption, and Shetani (Swahili for Satan), a veteran master pimp who controls his stable of whores with violence and daily doses of heroin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the story
- By steve ware on 07-29-19
By: Iceberg Slim
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The Gift of Fire & On the Head of a Pin
- Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, Beresford Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
In ancient mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire - an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge. As punishment, Prometheus was bound to a rock. But in The Gift of Fire, those chains cease to be, and the great champion of man walks from that immortal prison into present-day South Central Los Angeles. Disheveled and lost, he is thrown in jail, where he meets lifelong criminal Nosome Blane....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Mosley's take on science fiction and fantasy!
- By mary on 09-26-12
By: Walter Mosley
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A Rage in Harlem
- A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel
- By: Chester Himes
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,281
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,145
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,137
Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction, Star Wars films), fresh off the success of his uproarious, Audie-nominated performance of the mock children’s book Go the F**k to Sleep, delivers a swaggering, darkly-humored rendering of Chester Himes’ classic first novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Go the f--k to Audible and get this now!
- By Julie W. Capell on 03-22-12
By: Chester Himes
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Bangkok 8
- By: John Burdett
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 325
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 280
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Story4 out of 5 stars 280
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep - a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. - is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very dissapointing
- By Dennis on 05-29-13
By: John Burdett
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Humboldt's Gift
- By: Saul Bellow
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 229
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4 out of 5 stars 155
For years, they were the best of friends: the grand, erratic Humboldt and the ambitious young Charlie. But now Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life: he has left Charlie something in his will.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Great Reader
- By Scott on 05-10-08
By: Saul Bellow
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House of Meetings
- By: Martin Amis
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. House of Meetings is about one such liaison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Martin Amis at the height of his powers; wonderous
- By Todd on 06-16-15
By: Martin Amis
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Once Were Warriors
- By: Alan Duff
- Narrated by: Jay Laga'aia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story5 out of 5 stars 51
Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4000X better then the movie
- By Amazon Customer on 02-15-18
By: Alan Duff
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Reflections
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raw truth
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Never Die Alone
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Story5 out of 5 stars 98
King David was determined to claw his way out of the mean streets of New York City any way he could. It didn't matter if that meant battering and robbing old people, conning the innocent, or even killing a kid's mother. Lacing cocaine with battery acid for revenge was acceptable, too. Ultimately, it meant leaving town. Now King's made it big and made his way back, flush with cash and a Cadillac. But he hasn't been forgotten - or forgiven. And when payback time hits, he's only got one wish - not to die alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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King David and the battery acid.
- By George C. on 02-02-24
By: Donald Goines
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Iceberg Slim
- A Biography of America's Most Notorious Pimp
- By: Richard Lewis
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exceptionally narrated biography, you will get to know an ambitious, ruthless, and vicious man - Robert Beck, more commonly known by his street-earned nickname “Iceberg Slim”. Being one of the most popular and talked about pimps of the last century, there are many stories surrounding the character of Iceberg Slim, some extraordinary and unbelievable, but this audiobook aims to show the listener the true and factual events from Iceberg Slim’s life that shaped him into the notorious pimp he would become, and his life after his pimping career.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Get a new reader
- By Robert Burnam on 10-20-20
By: Richard Lewis
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White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
- By: Donald Goines
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Barely out of his 20s, Chester Hines knows the score. He's just another bug crawling through the streets of Detroit, waiting to be squashed under the heel of a system meant to keep a brother down. But with his old lady on his back, his only options are on the wrong side of the law. He didn't need a fortune-teller to tell him that sooner or later he'd end up in a system more brutal than the one that forced him there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow!!!
- By Tina wiley on 11-25-21
By: Donald Goines
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Street Players
- By: Donald Goines
- Narrated by: Midnite Michael
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Clawing his way to the top, pimp Earl the Black Pearl believes he is untouchable, but when someone puts a hit on his friends, he has to fight back to save his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Gritty Story From The Master Bro. Donald Goines
- By Nikki 7X on 04-19-24
By: Donald Goines
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Pimpology
- The 48 Laws of the Game
- By: Pimpin' Ken
- Narrated by: Mr. Gates
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,288
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In Pimpology, star of the documentaries Pimps Up, Ho's Down and American Pimp and Annual Players Ball Mack of the Year winner Ken Ivy pulls a square's coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. Ken's lessons will serve any person in any interaction. Whether at work, in relationships, or among friends, somebody's got to be on top. To be the one with the upper hand, you've got to have good game, and good game starts with knowing the rules.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Book
- By Amazon Customer on 04-23-16
By: Pimpin' Ken
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Crime Partners
- Kenyatta Series, Book 1
- By: Donald Goines
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where "kindness was the sweetest con of all", every bullet fired echoed with the sound of payback.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DON'T EVEN P!SS YOURSELF OFF!! 😒🤬
- By Shay on 09-16-21
By: Donald Goines
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- DMetrio21
- 05-29-21
Classical
Loved it! It is definitely a classic in the black American experience, bravo bravo bravo
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- Sungod64
- 02-21-23
Still intrigued
I read the book 20 years ago and I still wanted to listen to it on audiobooks.
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- LC
- 03-05-16
In Depth <br />
I thought it was very visual into his inner thoughts and feelings on who he was and who he was becoming
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- Jamaal Keyes
- 07-02-21
Laying It--Bare
When you realize The Underworld lifestyle is really for suckas! Another good listen! Iceberg! Slim!
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- derrick
- 09-01-20
Intellectual Depth!!!
Iceberg Slim not only has a way with words which is the foundation of every great writer, but he has also has the experience of being on both sides of the moral equation. Great read!!!!!
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- DivineOrder
- 02-20-24
💯💯
This man’s quality of writing I must say is exquisite! To be massively street smart & book smart is a combination that is deadly and yet super necessary
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- Anonymous User
- 03-08-24
Holy Hell
Intense and real? I never would have survived. Filled with words and thoughts not meant to be heard by young children.
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- l howard
- 07-22-19
True Ice
An excellent narrative with a story that is relevant. Ice is a genius in outline how things will never change and the life black Americans live.
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- charel
- 06-30-20
Wow!!! This book is current and so psychological.
This book is so timely. His words are so detailed and poetic. An amazing life.
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- majadi zito raqeeb
- 08-15-22
Exhilarating
Expected more details in technique and methodology of pimping. Slim is a legendary indeed outstanding craftsmanship.
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