Re: RARA-AVIS: WHORESON

From: funkmasterj@runbox.com
Date: 04 Aug 2003


> Frederick wrote:
> And yes, Conrad & Marlow are both racists.
>
> ***********
> Speaking of good racist novels, I just finished Goines WHORESON. Much
> better story than Iceberg Slim's PIMP. There was a complexity and depth in
> WHORESON that was lacking in PIMP. I still had a couple complaints about
> it, though. As is likely to happen in first person novels, character
> development
> outside of the protagonist suffered. I was also skeptical of the ending.
>
> A lot of the plot elements matched up with Slim's PIMP. Dysfunctional
> family
> life, rejection of the life of the 9-to-5 factory worker, examination of the
> sym-
> biosis between pimp and prostitute, drugs, alcohol, coat hanger beatings.
>
> miker

You do understand that Pimp is supposed to be non-fiction? Not that a number of my friends do think he made up a lot of that stuff.

Jordan

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