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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 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09
Rating: 5
Summary: Trick Baby
Comment: In this story we get to see Johnny O'Brien grow up to a teen with his black mother named Phala. His father is white and was not around to raise him. Johnny looks white but is raised in a ghetto type neighborhood. When he is a teen his mother is gang raped and put into a mental institute. This is where the story really begins, when Johnny meets a guy street named "Blue" because of his dark skin. He takes Johnny under his wing as a partner in the con game and teaches it to Johnny. Blue street names Johnny "White Folks". Blue's whole life is "Con" and he believes that with a black partner who looks white he will be able to run the con on a larger group of people. Which turns out to be true, I had a good time reading about the different ways that they conned people and all their trials along the way. The book is comical in some parts. Blue really takes on a fatherly role for "White Folks" as his relationship with his lesbian daughter is not as close as he would like. I liked being taken to a whole different world while reading this book. Late 50's early 60's. The way they talked the slang and the price's of things - I really loved this book. White Folks and Blue go through a lot of drama - that they bring on themselves. I do recommend this book. I am looking forward to reading the sequel "Long White Con"
Rating: 4
Summary: Iceberg Slim's Trick Baby is worth consideration
Comment: Telling the life story of White Folks, a black con-artist whose pale skin allows him to pass himself off as a white man, this book is not quite up to the standard of Iceberg's first book 'Pimp'. The book recounts White Folks' tragic early life, rejected by children his own age as being a 'Trick Baby', the illegitimate offspring conceived between a hooker and her trick. The main thrust of the story is the play off between White Folks and his older, blacker mentor who teaches him the con game. As with all his books, Iceberg writes in the style and language of the life he actually lead. There is nothing false or trite about this book. The reader gets a true insite into a world that most of us will never have to experience. Its a true cult classic. Often tragically funny, this is one not to be missed.
Rating: 3
Summary: VERY SLOW!
Comment: THIS BOOK WAS GOOD ONCE IT FINALLY GOT TO THE POINT! THE BOOK WAS A SLOW DRAG THAT MADE YOU WONDER IF IT WAS EVER GOING TO COME TO AN END. I FELT KIND OF SORRY FOR WHITE FOLKS. HE WENT THROUGH ALOT BUT NEVER GAVE UP. I WILL READ ANOTHER ONE OF THE AUTHOR BOOKS BUT IF THE BOOK IS A SLOW AS THIS ONE WAS, I WILL BE DONE READING BOOKS BY HIM! I WANTED TO LIKE THIS BOOK SINCE HE INSPIRED 1 OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS TO WRITE (DONALD GOINES). WHAT'S FUNNY IS THAT HE INSPIRED DONALD GOINES AND TURNS OUT DONALD GOINES IS BETTER! THIS BOOK WAS JUST TOOOOOOO SLOW!
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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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Title: Mama Black Widow by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck, Iceberg ISBN: 0870679759 Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: Long White Con by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck, Iceberg ISBN: 0870679740 Publisher: All America Distributors Corp Pub. Date: 01 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Death Wish by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck ISBN: 0870679783 Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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