Re: RARA-AVIS: iceberg slim ?

From: ksm ( outpost@entirety.ca)
Date: 18 Mar 2002


they didn't call him "iceberg" for nuthin'. "pimp" is a mighty brutal story. wish my friend's copy hadn't mysteriously disappeared, i've wanted to reread it several times since i last was able to put a hand on it. highly recommended.

-ksm
----- Original Message ----- From: dave < birdlives@earthlink.net> To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 7:24 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: iceberg slim ?

> Slim is more stylized -- Goines is absolutely raw.
>
> I'd say Slim's the better "writer," Goines the better story
> teller. Both of them are high on my list. Goines has about
> as much hard-core debauchery and degradation as you can find
> anywhere. And that's why, for years, the only place you
> could buy him was at the local NEWSSTAND! Yay! True "street"
> literature ...
>
> dave
>
> Robison Michael R CNIN wrote:
> >
> > bill said:
> > We read Iceberg Slim's PIMP in May 1999, then in June we read WHORESON.
> > If you check the archives you'll see some discussion about Slim and
> > Goines, black American writing, etc. Slim's stuff is pretty raw.
> >
> > ********************
> >
> > thanks for the heads up on that, bill. i'll have a look
> > at the archives. you saying, "slim's stuff is pretty
> > raw," is scary, considering your comment is probably
> > relative to the other books that are talked about here.
> > there's some pretty brutal stories here. of course, the
> > "raw" you speak of might be more sex than violence for
> > this book.
> >
> > miker
> >
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