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  <default_description>&lt;i&gt;Mama Black Widow&lt;/i&gt; is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld- an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[dark, graphic and real... the author doesn't skim on being polite about anything... you don't get many voices like this in  American fiction... highly recommend]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very graphic and gritty novel but not for the squeamish, faint of heart or those who want a happy ending because a happy ending you're not going to get. I must say it was probably one of the most nailbiting page turning protrayals of inner city 1930s black urban life. I seriously could not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9394667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the edition reissued by Old School Books, a series that I love of vintage African-American writing. This book tells the story of a family who moved to Chicago in the Great Migration, but through the eyes of schizophrenic crossdresser named Otis, who sometimes goes by Sally. The setting provid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45658824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58940345">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 18 22:48:29 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ouch. The terrible things that happen in this book are difficult to quantify. Every time I thought things couldn't get worse for Otis a.k.a. Tillie a.k.a. Sweet Pea a.k.a Sally, they just did. <br/>This book is was supposedly told as a first person account to Iceberg Slim, who formatted and adjuste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58940345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59298941">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book goes to show that predjudice have and probably will always be a part of this world, I felt bad for the character in this book, it also was a true story, Discrimination is such a wasted emotion.]]></body>
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    <review id="60682896">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been awhile since I've read as disturbing a book. Graphic and visceral, as advertised, it is a startling look at the sordid underbelly of life in Chicago's poor black neighborhoods. ]]></body>
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    <review id="41681399">
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty brutal abuse scenes that are hard to stomach.  fairly disappointed with the main character's evolution...]]></body>
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    <review id="41823310">
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    <body><![CDATA[Read twice, once in my teens and again in my 20's. Love it, should be a movie]]></body>
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    <review id="54370652">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favs from him. Made me cry!]]></body>
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    <review id="40692594">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[my nephew first comes to mind  ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what I was expecting from this but it was somewhat different from what I did think it would be like. Not to say it's bad- it's certainly not- I enjoyed it. It took a little while to get into for me, a little longer than I thought it would for sure, but once I got into it there was no tu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40692594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5917069">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is amazing to me that Iceberg Slim is not more well known in the American mainstream press or even in schools.   &quot;Mama Black Widow&quot; is probably one of the great American novels of the 20th Century.  If this was going to be a film, only someone like Fassbinder could have filmed it.  Also...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5917069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I want to read because they are making into a movie and from what I've heard about Iceberg Slim's writing, the movie is sure to be watered down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is my favorite book by iceberg slim.. it has everything i love......a girl who works in a mortuary, drag queens, and violent sex scenes. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[chicago. the 1940s. a black transvestite and his trials and tribulations. gritty!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grindingly depressing. A transvestite gets clubbed for pages upon pages.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[followed the sad life of a homosexual growing up in chicago.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pimps, transexuals, poverty.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very, very sad.]]></body>
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