Black Gangster

by Donald Goines

Book Overview

Raw and true to the street, no one portrays the underground like the godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines. Trapped in jail for a petty crime, Prince hatches a scheme from his cell to make it big.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870679619
• ISBN13: 9780870679612
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Holloway House Publishing Company
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

THERE IS NON-A-NUDA BOOK QUITE LIKE THIS ONE

I THINK THIS BOOK IS RELLY GOOD ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE GROWING UP IN THE HOOD LIVING THE GANGSTERIOUS LIFE THAT EVERY TEENAGE BOY OR NOW DAYS GIRL WANTS TO LIVE. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE THAT GOIMG THROUGH STREET LIFE ISSUE.

Oooh! It's So REAL

Donald Goines' book entitled "Black Gangster" is one of my favorites in his collection. Likewise, this book tells a story about hustling, pimping, etc. You name he tells it and vividly too. This story basically tells the story of a well-known street gangster that has the black 'hood in the palm of his hand. Everyone in the hood is working for him that includes the drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, you name it. He even have the small businesses paying him for protection. I can go on and on... CHECK IT OUT! You want be disappointed.

Anything with the name Donald Goines is sure to be gold.

I was first introduced to Donald Goines in June of 1998 by August of the same year I had already read all of his books. The only thing that angered me was the fact that no one took the time to inform me about him earlier. His Gansta tales, of pimpin', hustlin' and everyday life in the ghetto gives everyone the opportunity to experience the ghetto through his eyes. With vivid details and cliffhanger storylines he never leaves you anywhere but on the edge of your seat. Personally I fell that every Black person male and female must read his books. Not only do his tales stand stronger than most books of modern time but he is still on the nose as to daily life today. Donald Goines was definitely ahead of his time, in the game and on the typewriter. Although he has gone he has left a legacy behind. A legacy of tales that will not only be passed from his generation to my generation, but as well to the next and the next. I feel if you put any Donald Goines book in a time capsule they would have the same chilling effect that they do today and 20 years ago. That is the mark of a good author, in my opinion it is fact that Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim rate with if not above any other American authors present and past, maybe we should introduce his books to our children at school and let them have an opporunity to experience the street without ever leaving the house or the library. This is also another way to intice inner city children to read when they feel nothing in the library applies to their everyday life. The only problem that I have with any of his works are that they end, and the only beef I have is that his life was struck down in what seemed to be his prime.For all interested parties read anythin by this author and pass it on to all of your friends they will thank you later and do the same thing by passing it on to their friends. That is the only way that our Black literature will survive. Thank you Donald Goines for your life and your mind may God Bless Donald Goines and all of his works I know I'm a better person for reading his books.

CLASSIC

This was a great book. After reading this I wanted to go out and try some of things he wrote in the book to see if I could pull them off like he did.