Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #539271 in Books
• Published on: 1987-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

THE Pimp book. Also one of the best books ever written.
This is a masterpeice towering above most other books ever written. Full stop. Why? Ooozing with atmoshpere, it's cleverley written, exciting and very sad at the same time, deep, it bares the soul of the author as you journey through the Chicago streets, bars, the prisons, the penthouses with him. There's a glossary at the back, because he uses street slang from the 1930s Chicago scene as he would speak. Which adds to the atmosphere immensley, but takes some getting used to. This is a book that can be enjoyed at a plethora of levels. Other books to read if you love this are all his others, particularly Naked Soul and Trick Baby. Paradises' Space Age Pimping. Goines' Whoreson. DVDs American Pimp and Pimps Up Hoes Down.

An absolutly amazing book
Pimp enthrawls the reader right from the start as you are drawn into the world of Bobby Lancaster. As a reader you will go through the whole book with conflicting emotions; supporting him in his uncompromising effort to succeed and then disgusted at the horribles beatings he gives out to women. Even though we see his eventual redemption in old age and deep regret of his previous life, at no time does the book ever come across as preaching the immoralities of any way of life. It simply is the very frank account of one man's life and the reader is deeply rewarded when coming to their own conclusions about the man known as Iceberg Slim.

A must read, regardless of genre preferences.

Masterpeice.
I rate Pimp as a materpeice on every level that I can judge a book on. The life story of Iceberg Slim is absoloubtly fascinating and incredible. He is the best storyteller I've ever read and I've read a hell of a lot of books on all kinds of topics.

Couple these assets to the revelation of the innermost secrets of pimping, his soul's sickness and hurt, the story of deprevity in the black ghetto and the raw descrptive languege that makes you feel there.

It's so incredible some even say it's fiction but having read Iceberg Slim: Lost Interviews with the Pimp his latest book, in which that issue is addressed my mind is even more blown now. Only people who don't like crude words will dislike this book. Read it.