Pimp: The Story of My Life

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Summary: Excellent depiction of ghetto life
Review: This man is a genius. He depicts the minority state of mind that the caucasion members of this society has placed them in. Prostitution is an age old profession. The art and skill to control and munipulate people into submitting themselves for financial gains, by iceburg, needs to be applauded. In our day we do not call it pimpology, but corporate politics. There is no difference other than one is considered legal exploitation of people, and the other is morally unacceptable. Furthermore, I admire the ability to gain this knowledge of munipulating people, by life's experiences, without being on a corporations payroll, most interesting. I do not agree with the methods used, however, I respect the knowledge and wisdom that this man has. If you think about it, Iceburg is actuallly giving us an insight of real life American living of the impoverished minority. The prostitutes he is able to munipulate might be someone in your family? Think about it, and learn!

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Summary: PIMP OR SIMP ?
Review: THIS BOOK IS REAL DEEP ONCE YOU PICK IT UP YOU CAN'T PUT IT DOWN. FOR ALL OF YOU YOUNG CATS WHO WANT TO KNOW ABOUT "THE PIMP GAME" IT WILL DO JUST THAT. FOR ALL YOU OTHER CATS WHO JUST WANT TO LEARN TO USE SOME OF THE RULES OF THE PIMP GAME IN DEALING WITH WOMEN AND IN LIFE IT WILL DO THAT AS WELL. BE PREPARED THOUGH ITS NOT A STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO PIMPIN BUT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ICEBERG SLIM WHICH WHEN YOU READ WILL GIVE YOU THE EXPERIENCE TO COME UP YOUR OWN WITH A STEP BY STEP GUIDE FOR THE PIMP GAME OR WHAT EVER GAME YOU WANT TO APPLY IT TO. COP IT AND THE NAKED SOUL OF ICEBERG SLIM ALSO THEY GO HAND AND HAND.

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Summary: straight to the point
Review: not for the faint of heart.very real and solid in it's delievery.it's a must read and is very captivating.

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Summary: It takes you on a journey, where you've never been to before
Review: The words that Robert Beck uses in this novel, is like an addiction to drugs. It get's you hooked from beginning to the end.

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Summary: Opened my eyes of the true life on the streets.
Review: It told a true story of how to make it on your own. It also tells that not every african american pimp is stupid, you can be the smartest person and not have the most intellectually stimulating job. In other words you don't have to be the stupidest person to pimp in fact you have to know how to think in sticky situations.

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Summary: Iceberg Slim really showed America what pimping is all about
Review: Mr. Beck showed us in his book exactly how his terrible transformed him into the greatest pimp of all time. With all of the setbacks and problems that Slim Lancaster had it's no wonder that he obtained the name Iceburg because he was unable to show any type of emotion to any one accept his mother

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Summary: Good book
Review: Iceberg did a great job explaining the downsides of pimping because there is nothing hip about it. Through out the book you can tell that Iceberg has been running all his life to bad this great literary writer couldn't square up sooner and become a literal giant like Baldwin, Wright, and Ellison.

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Summary: An Official guide book through the life of a pimp.
Review: I think this book was one of the best books i read in mylifetime . it covered all angles of the pimp game, from the drivingaround in a caddie to having one hoe in ya stable who to lazy to get out and "hump up some scratch" . To the wrong individual this might seem like no more than a book that teaches you how to pimp, but its really a good book. Robert Beck is a great author he touches all angles and paints a vivid picture of this lifestyle. He makes you feel like your watching a movie. So if your a pimp by blood and you love s*** like the mac and things in that nature, you ganna feel this book, Ya dig? END

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Summary: Don't be fools, brothers...
Review: I think this Iceberg Slim's writing debut alongside with his "Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim" are monument classics to the extreme. Iceberg Slim, all BS aside tells the bitter truth about the pimp life during the 40's and 50's in the Black concrete reservation called Harlem. It shows the candid realities of the ghetto life and about the struggles of a man, frustrated with the setbacks and oppressions of a prodominately white society and despairingly turns to pimping and drug pushing as a way out. Now, I must further comment to some of the youngbloods out there that read Iceberg is dead in his grave, but if he were alive today, and read some of the entries here, he would not be flattered but pissed, to put it bluntly. When 'Berg meant for people (particularly young African-American males to read "Pimp", he intended to give you insight on the pimp game in order for you to see just what a hellish life he really lead as a pimp. It was not meant as a rule book, but a discouragement from the game.Oh, sure, there was the easy money, the power over women, and the false sense of respect as you ride down the street in that Cadillac. But what about the other dangers, like having to look over your shoulders for the police, f--king up your mind with that powder (although today we have crack, even worse). And the women, when they get older and more resentful, they'll cross you and set you up one day, so you have to constantly make sure that they stay mostly ignorant of your weaknesses as not just a player, but a man. If Ice were alive, he would tell you that the pimp life ain't so f--king glamourous, but it's hell, that's why he later settled down with his wife and kid and turned straight. So, brothers, as a former player myself, I'm telling you, don't diss your sisters, talking about pimping, because it's not a beautiful lifestyle. You want money, you want girls to dig you? Get an education, Get a f--king job, save some money and get some f--cking business. Because I tell you bro's you might say it's the "White Man's Fault" we're in the shape were in, but in truth, we've got nobody to blame but our own nappy head selves. Yeah, we were bad, cool, and slick back then, but in reality, we were stupid as hell. We were only to steps from the County Jail and that's where you'll end up if you don't check your mind. Stay your a--es in school, and keep your f--king a--es out of jail. Or else, just be another profit to the man. That's what I have to say and I know Ice would agree. Peace! END

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Summary: "Greatest book I've ever read; changed my life!"
Review: "This book left me speechless. I always had this hidden dream of becoming a pimp, but at the age of eighteen, reading this book made me think I was waiting too long. It's like a second Bible."