miker wrote:
"Although I consider a comparison to Iceberg Slim a dubious
distinction, I ordered a copy. I don't recall ever hearing
about Heard before."
I find Slim's overbearing misogyny more than a bit creepy at
times, which may be why I far prefer his con job novels to
Pimp (if anything, it's worse hearing those sentiments spoken
out loud on his spoken word album, which is backed by some of
the worst pseudo-jazz you've ever heard). Although Nathan
Heard's Howard Street is populated by pimps, hustlers and
whores, often in extreme circumstances, he seems more intent
on understanding the lives of all of these people than
glamorizing those lives.
Mark
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