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Black Gangster
A large part of Goines's thirty-nine years were spent being a pimp, a thief, a bootlegger, an armed robber, and a small-time dope dealer. He lived the life of the streets and out of that experience he created Prince, the anti-hero of Black Gangster. It's the story of the shocking underworld of black organized crime and the fledgling black "godfather" who goes fro...more
Mass Market Paperbound, 319 pages
Published
May 31st 2006
by Holloway House Publishing Company
(first published 1972)
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This book is great!!! I really LOVE Ruby she is really a Gangsta Bi$$h...I actually read this book a few times, I allow a few months or a year to pass then I pick it up and read it again, always grabs my attention, especially after a few apple martinis
I like the way Goines can write a story. His books are not for everyone, he is really along the trash literature types, but I like him, because lots of readers would not even give him a chance. Yeah he writes about the dark underbelly of the crime world, he writes of pimps, hustlers, gangsters, whores, the lowlifes of the ghettos, well, Goines give them a voice. Where most people would write of positive, uplifting people to get them going, Goines is doing the opposite. I could compare this t...more
Eva
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Recommends it for:
street-lit readers mostly
Recommended to Eva by:
heard Goines was the king of street-lit
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b-urban-fiction
My first Donald Goines book! I enjoyed <Black Gangster</i> immensely and plan on reading more sometime soon. The characters in this were amazing. Ruby is so high on the list of favorite all-time characters she's right next to Winter Santiago. This, like The Coldest Winter Ever is a story I won't forget.
One thing that ticks me off a little with the more recent urban fiction is that so much is unrealistic. Nothing in this was unrealistic- it all could happen and it all has happened...more
One thing that ticks me off a little with the more recent urban fiction is that so much is unrealistic. Nothing in this was unrealistic- it all could happen and it all has happened...more
Goines is amazing. Read everything he wrote, totally new take on the urban/racial wars of the late 60's early 70's.
I really enjoyed this book. The ending could have been a little bit more upbeat but it is a novel by Donald Goines.
Another one of Goines inner city truths.
classic Goins! some of his best stuff!
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Another great story.
It is a very good read.
That's gangsta! Read this one also while I was in Iraq. Great for escapism, as books should sometimes be. (It's like a movie ON PAPER. Who would'a thunk it?)
MY MAN!
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