Whoreson

The Story of a Ghetto Pimp

By: Donald Goines

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

From one of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth century comes the uncensored and gritty novel that inspired today's street lit and hip-hop culture.

After my ninth birthday, I began to really understand the meaning of my name. I began to understand just what my mother was doing for a living. There was nothing I could do about it, but even had I been able to, I wouldn't have changed it.

Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. As a child, he's looked after by his neighborhood's imposing matriarch, Big Mama, while his mother works. At age twelve, his street education begins when a man named Fast Black schools him in trickology. By thirteen, Whoreson's a cardsharp. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends, and he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-blooded and ruthless, battling to understand and live up to his mother's words: "First be a man, then be a pimp."

©2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.; 2007 Donald Goines

GREAT BOOK!!

If you could sum up Whoreson in three words, what would they be?

EXCITING, DRAMATIC, ENTERTAINING!

What other book might you compare Whoreson to and why?

ALL OF ICEBERG SLIM BOOKS! IT HAD THE SAME STREET LANGUAGE THAT BRINGS THE BOOK ALIVE. I FIND MYSELF RIGHT THERE BETWEEN THE PAGES GOING THRU EVERY EVENT WITH THE CHARACTERS.

If you could take any character from Whoreson out to dinner, who would it be and why?

I WOULD TAKE WHORESON OUT THE DINNER SO I COULD PICK HIS BRAIN MORE AND FIND OUT DID HE LIVE UP TO HIS PROMISES HE MADE WHEN HE WENT TO PRISON AT THE END OF THE BOOK!!

Any additional comments?

PLEASE MAKE A SECOND PART TO THIS STORY!

Awesome

i love his books, vivid and very detailed. one i start reading can't put down.

l read some books but this is some gangsta shit...

And l think his shit is better than ice berg slim , which Iceberg is good at expressing his street view.

DG The Legend

I love Goines. I've read this book several times. Always a Classic!!! Goines gone but not forgotten

Awesome read/listen!

I loved this one. I was fully invested and engaged to the very end, and I was left wanting to hear more.

Donald Goines is the master of street grit!!!!

The urban book genre started reaching popularity in the late nineties. Donald is a master in his craft. The problem with most of the new street writers is that they think that pimpin and whoring is all about flash, glamour, and good times. To someone looking from the outside in this fairy tale might suffice. However, to a veteran of the street life it lacks luster and grit. Hands down Donald is as street as it gets. He gives the reader a view that most would never see with their physical eye. A true street griot!!

nice read

Pimp was better. Whoreson has a few gems, but not as many as Pimp does. Just saying. It's a good read.

Flawless

This was truly a flawless story, long live Donald Goines, I wish someone made a nice long movie out of this story.

Donald Goines, The Master Storyteller

I read the original printing of the book in the 70s. Hearing it read brings back the excitement of when I snuck and read it by flashlight. Rest in Peace DG!

Captivating

Goines is the best urban life author to have even done it. His books are real, in your face, and heartbreaking. The funny thing is, once you are done with one, and you are filled with pain, enlightenment, and wonder, you can't help but rush and dive into the next world, which are his books.