- Taschenbuch: 286 Seiten
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd.; Auflage: New edition
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1841952389
- ISBN-13: 978-1841952383
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,2 x 12,8 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (22 Kundenrezensionen)
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New edition of this no-holds-barred true story of street life and ghetto existence, mainly centred around Chicago in the 1940s and 50s, which has sold over 40,000 copies since it was first published by Canongate in 1995. "Too often, this major cultural icon for our times has been criminally ignored" Irvine Welsh.
Synopsis
This is the true story of the pimp. The story of the smells, the sounds, the fears and the petty triumphs of his world. Told without moralising and with no pretence of bitterness, Iceberg Slim relates his twenty-five years in the Game, from the building up of stables to losing himself on scag. It was a life of ups and downs, and to succeed you had to be utterly ruthless. Few survived - Iceberg did. Nobody but a pimp could tell this story and no-one ever has - until Iceberg Slim. This is the true story of the pimp. The story of the smells, the sounds, the fears and the petty triumphs of his world. Told without moralising and with no pretence of bitterness, Iceberg Slim relates his twenty-five years in the Game, from the building up of stables to losing himself on scag. It was a life of ups and downs, and to succeed you had to be utterly ruthless. Few survived - Iceberg did. Nobody but a pimp could tell this story and no-one ever has - until Iceberg Slim.
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Since I have read this book I have tried, in vain, to find another book to match it's emotional depth (yes, it's there under the surface-if you look for it), intelligence (irrelivent of your own opinions),street smartness and theory's about the game (pimping)which I'm a part of, dark humor, unparalleled talent for creating atmosphere.
Look in it for what you want. Like any work of art, the book may be translated and percived in many ways by the reader. It provides food for thought. The book delivers on so many levels that only someone square &with an oversion to graphic language describing the cold realities of someone's life would dislike it.
Lastly, although it is intended to create the aura of fascinating reality,ledgendary persona and i do not take from the obvious authenticity of the knowledge used to write the book, it is fictional. Anyone wishing to discuss the subj/author feel free to mail me.
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I've got two completely different opinions about _Pimp_ and Robert Beck himself. One is glowing, the other terrible. Maybe that's what makes Beck and his books so interesting. First, the glowing opinion. Beck's style is like nothing I've ever read before. He claims to have a 175 I.Q. I don't doubt it. No one less brilliant could conjure up the metaphors and images he casually slings as if they were off the top of his head. The book is written in a loose, story-telling style, as if it was never revised, typos and all. Beck makes you feel as if you were standing on a street corner listening to a "fast track pimp" weave his life's yarn. Many times, I would read a sentence several times simply to admire the unique vision Beck gave to an action as simple as getting in or out of a car (a "hog") or thinking about his mother. The terminology is another, brilliantly colorful language (complete with glossary in the back!).Although the story dotes on his early years and then cruises through a couple of decades in a matter of pages, Beck's tale was never slow or anything less than gleaming. That is the glowing opinion. Now the terrible one. I'll try not to seem sanctimonious. To me, Robert Beck is (was) an alarmingly vicious hypocrite and psychopathic criminal. The book begins and ends with his tepid claims that he has seen the error of his ways and regrets his former life. These meager claims are ridiculous when you read the pride, nostalgia, and admiration with which Beck recounts his former life. In one passage in particular, his role model and mentor teaches him an unbelievable method to keep his whores in line. Whip them bloody with a wire coathanger. Beck eagerly tests the method. You can sense the satisfaction with which he regards the successful results. Beck tells us about breaking women's jaws and pummelling them senseless in the same manner he might use to recount old football victories. This is not a repentant ex-pimp. This is a retired pimp who is smart enough to realize that if he pays lipservice to reform and enlightenment, he will sell his books to a much larger audience. He certainly did make a nice pile of "scratch" off the stories he wrote glorifying his former lifestyle ("Long White Con" is the other Beck book I've read-- much more mediocre in style and plot). In the end, I recommend _Pimp_ as a refreshingly unique voice in modern literature. I certainly don't admire Beck's life, nor endorse the lifestyle (as so many other reviewers alarmingly seem to!).
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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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It was ok
You people speak of this book as if it were Faulkner or Joyce or someone like that. It was ok, not great. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
This book tries to discourage pimping, not encourage it
Reading some of the other reviews, you would think that this book is some sort of pimping manual. While Slim does go into the specifics of how he was pimping, this is done to show... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 2000 von "ahmadku"
Pimp Provides Valuable Advice
Pimp, a non-fiction novel written by Robert Beck, recounts thetrials and tribulations of Iceberg Slim: a pimp whose ideologies andsocial strategies give insight into the often... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. April 2000 von Xaviar Graham
A Gritty Masterpiece
Make sure you're sitting in a comfortable chair when you pick up this book, because chances are you will not be able to put it down. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Excellent depiction of ghetto life
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. März 2000 von Peter Payor
PIMP OR SIMP ?
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. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
straight to the point
not for the faint of heart.very real and solid in it's delievery.it's a must read and is very captivating.
Am 31. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Opened my eyes of the true life on the streets.
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... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
horrible. And pimping makes no sense
iceberg shows that pimping has more in common with prisoners of war than rap. You keep injuring and insulting and destroying until you break someone's spirit. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Good book
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... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Januar 1999 von gp305@aol.com
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