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Summary: a little much for the typical reader
Review: ATTENTION: Editors, Directors movie makers, get to work on this book as a film. It's your duty to put this book on the silver screen, and if you do it, do it right. Don't leave out anything. This is real-life Pimpin' at it's greatest. No one man has been through as much as Iceberg Slim in the Pimp Game. In, 2006 would be the best time to have it out. But, mark my words this will make people open thier eyes to how trife life can be. THIS WILL BE THE BEST PIMP MOVIE EVER MADE.
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Summary: Pimp'd
Review: Great Read - the story is amazingly original with the highs and lows of Iceberg's life detailed in an honest & direct manner. Reading this book, you believe everyword...mostly b/c it does not sound that glamorous eventhough the main character becomes enrapt with the lifestyle. Clearly, the reader has to step back and relaize that reading a life-story about a pimp is not the same as supporting prostitution...
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Summary: Pimp'd
Review: Great Read - the story is amazingly original with the highs and lows of Iceberg's life detailed in an honest & direct manner. Reading this book, you believe everyword...mostly b/c it does not sound that glamorous eventhough the main character becomes enrapt with the lifestyle. Clearly, the reader has to step back and relaize that reading a life-story about a pimp is not the same as supporting prostitution...
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Summary: A fascinating insight into the old, old school
Review: I curiously browsed this page a few months ago wondering what this book was all about and who Iceberg Slim really was. Then a friend mentioned he had the book and offered it to me to borrow. When I picked it up I couldn't put it down.Iceberg Slim's description of the gritty street life pre- and post-World War II brought me to an almost unimaginable world. A world that's a far cry from the MTV-style, pseudo-pimp posturing portrayed in today's mainstream media. It was a world of hard drugs and hard living where Darwin's survival of the fittest (and baddest) reigned. Slim tells it like it is; there's absolutely no political correctness. Then again, his environment was not one which could support any false pretenses like suburban PC life does these days. Some may say, 'but isn't he promoting this type of behavior?' Quite on the contrary: it's every man for himself in Slim's world; he has his highs and lows, both literally and figuratively. The mere fact that he survived to tell the tale, (unlike many others in "the game" who went early to their graves), and went from abusing and exploiting women to wedded life and fatherhood is testament enough to NOT follow his lead. Those who aspire to be where he is now know that the road he chose is not one dotted with success stories: the fleeting glamour and glory of the pimp lifestyle leads not to greater things, but often to nothing. Slim, although an exception, makes this abundantly clear without stooping to the level of an apologist.
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Summary: A LOTTA GAME IN THIS BOOK....
Review: I read this once for a book club but I had to go back and revisit. The language is very engaging. the words and slang used during the time period are interesting enough, but to think of this whole book written from a street perspective, one of the pimp, a story very seldom told outside of blaxploitation flixs of the 60s and 70s. Iceberg's story is very important, i consider it to be as much a part of black culture as any of our other struggles. whats draws me to this is that I know it is real. i know that it has happened, the psychology behind what makes women turn to this lifestyle is what attracts me, especially when you compare that to our modern day gold diggers- you may not seem so eager to cast stones at these outcasts described by 'Berg. As i said before, there is alot of game in this book, quotables such as 'pimp em for long scratch quick' and 'cop and blow is that name of the game' it may seem cool to pimp but once you finish the book you realize that it really is tragic. please read!!!
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Summary: A LOTTA GAME IN THIS BOOK....
Review: I read this once for a book club but I had to go back and revisit. The language is very engaging. the words and slang used during the time period are interesting enough, but to think of this whole book written from a street perspective, one of the pimp, a story very seldom told outside of blaxploitation flixs of the 60s and 70s. Iceberg's story is very important, i consider it to be as much a part of black culture as any of our other struggles. whats draws me to this is that I know it is real. i know that it has happened, the psychology behind what makes women turn to this lifestyle is what attracts me, especially when you compare that to our modern day gold diggers- you may not seem so eager to cast stones at these outcasts described by 'Berg. As i said before, there is alot of game in this book, quotables such as 'pimp em for long scratch quick' and 'cop and blow is that name of the game' it may seem cool to pimp but once you finish the book you realize that it really is tragic. please read!!!
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Summary: Iceberg Slim minces no words!
Review: I really like to read, and every once in awhile, an Iceberg Slim book is a nice change from the norm.
His style is staccato, rough, and full of slang (a tip to new readers: there's a glossary à la A Clockwork Orange if you need it). This can be a little hard to get used to, since we're fed lyrical writings all the time... now imagine all of the spelling and grammar errors riddling the pages. Yes, Iceberg Slim is one of those guys who confuses "there" with "their" and "they're," and I guess his books are self-published and not run past an editor (not a good one, anyway).
So, why 4 stars?
From the first page, if you're anything like me, you will be thrust into a world of back-stabbing and petty crime that will have you asking yourself, every few pages, "Is he serious? Wasn't this, like, in the '30s?" and "People did that?" The opening scene is the most surreal, and it's followed by a dizzying stream of off-beat characters and shame-on-them schemes. It is sometimes hard to differentiate between characters -- with all the distractions of bad spelling, writing, and poor-quality printing -- but it doesn't matter.
The bottom line is: Iceberg Slim tells his stories like an old man sitting on a bus bench would tell the stories, which is just how they SHOULD be told.
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Summary: A vivid cautionary tale
Review: If Mark Twain were a Black street pimp, he would have been Iceberg Slim. Pimp is one of the most captivating books I have ever read. Slim effectively uses his eye for detail and dry humor to bring the hard streets of the Chicago's South Side to life. The characters are well constructed, and the author's protrayal of himself is colorful and honest. Slim does not look for the reader to forgive him for his actions, nor does he try to justify his past deeds with rationalizing rhetoric. Instead, he just tells it like it was, using street slang that can be hard to follow at times, documenting his rise and fall, and how the latter brought him around to "square" life. This book is a true masterpiece of American literature.
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Summary: Game is to be Sold not Told
Review: In the words of the great late Notorious B-I-G "Pimpin Ain't Easy But It Sure is Fun." That basically sums up this book. It some ways this book glorifies pimping. But at the same time or at least as the book unfolds it shows the ugly side and the downside of pimping.
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Summary: best book ever
Review: it is funny yet serios
it is hard yet soft
it is your frien d and your worst enamy
it is a pimp
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