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Title: Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck, Jay Allen ISBN: 0-87067-759-4 Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co Pub. Date: August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (56 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Listen...read...remember...Slim is the truth!!
Comment: Too often these days we hear all these people goin around callin themselves pimps, and hoes and say they pimpin it!! How would I ever know that real pimpin took place almost 50 yrs ago. Iceberg Slim delivered his most heartfelt novel. Even more Heartfelt than his "Naked Soul" because these are real experiences, real people, and real pimping. It starts off with him as a child and his loving mother. His father treated him like crap, so they left, him and his mother met a man that would soon become Iceberg's role-model, Henry. But later his mother tricked Henry and she and Iceberg meet his dead beat dad Steve in Minneapolis. From there Robert (Iceberg) gets in a lot of trouble. His first taste of the street. Throughout the book Rob is in contact with characters that sometimes overshadow him. His mother, father Steve, stepfather Henry, 1st botton-whore Phyllis (the runt), Sweet-Top, Party-Time, Flat-Top, Chris, Rachel, and Leroy. The book shows his rise from a pimp dream to a pimp fantasy to a pimp hell! One of the hardest parts for me in the book was understanding the slang, this is slang used during the 1930's 40's and 50's! I found myself flipping back and forth between the glossary. Phyllis was his first cop and probably the most explored character in the book besides Iceberg himself. Even though she later bailed on him she was his first true ride or die chick. Chris (whom he had stolen from a crazed-Leroy who he later met in jail at the end of the book) was the only one to stand by his side when his stable was falling apart while he was in jail. Rachel was also the only one on his side while he was in jail his final time for breaking out of jail. Flat Top and Party Time introduced him to the Chicago pimping game. Although they later on destroyed their lives through pimping they opened the door for Iceberg. Sweet probably the most powerful character in the book was just so powerful and strong that I could just envision his live pad and his lavish dwellings. But as always the stress of the street was just too much and he ended up shooting himself in the head. Only for short periods of time was Iceberg on top of his game, he was trading his old hog for a new hog every year and was pickin up the scratch night after night from his stable (see that pimp vocab is with me now.) and for a short time after he broke out of jail he was the pimp's pimp! But besides that he was pullin somebody's mind or travelin from city to city to get some yellow or H (u gotta read this book to kno what I am talkin about :)) It's just a shame that he had to visit jail multiple times, pimp, beat, and brutalize many woman, and see his mother pass away before he could realize the wrongdoings of his life over the past 20 yrs. I think him sitting in the confined cell over those past 10 mos were a real wake up signal to him, Iceberg Slim. I did not read this book to become a pimp by any means. I read this book because Robert Beck is a celebrated black author of classic ghetto stories not to entertain but to intimidate. Robert Beck knows the pimp game, he knows what its all about, but he also knows the stress, the pain, the heartache, and the paranoia that comes along with it. And he knows that he never wants to see any brother or sister have to go thru it. So while his stories may be heart-wrenching, captivating, and entertaining remember that his stories are warnings and testaments of a life that is cold and always leads to a life full of drugs, sex, death, and sadness. Robert Beck is a ghetto lyrical genius that reminds US that our lives don't have to end or begin like this, get your education and have respect for yourself. No amount of money is worth the hell he put himself through. Listen....read......remember....Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck is the real truth!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A LOTTA GAME IN THIS BOOK....
Comment: I read this once for a book club but I had to go back and revisit. The language is very engaging. the words and slang used during the time period are interesting enough, but to think of this whole book written from a street perspective, one of the pimp, a story very seldom told outside of blaxploitation flixs of the 60s and 70s. Iceberg's story is very important, i consider it to be as much a part of black culture as any of our other struggles. whats draws me to this is that I know it is real. i know that it has happened, the psychology behind what makes women turn to this lifestyle is what attracts me, especially when you compare that to our modern day gold diggers- you may not seem so eager to cast stones at these outcasts described by 'Berg. As i said before, there is alot of game in this book, quotables such as 'pimp em for long scratch quick' and 'cop and blow is that name of the game' it may seem cool to pimp but once you finish the book you realize that it really is tragic. please read!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Urban litrature: That deserves notice.
Comment: Instead of going into a long critique of the book. I have only few words to describe this piece of work: A Stunning tour de force of literature, that should be required reading at the college and university level. An excellent look at man's struggle between good and evil.
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Title: Trick Baby by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck, Iceberg ISBN: 0870679775 Publisher: All America Distributors Corp Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide by Mickey Royal ISBN: 0970058705 Publisher: Sharif Publishing Pub. Date: 04 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim by Beck Robert, Robert Beck ISBN: 0870679988 Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp by Donald Goines ISBN: 0870679945 Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Airtight Willie & Me by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck, Iceberg ISBN: 0870679767 Publisher: All America Distributors Corp Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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