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Narrated by:
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Terrence Kidd
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By:
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Donald Goines
About this listen
When it comes to fast, authentic, hard-hitting street lit, the OG godfather of urban lit was in his bag with this joint set in the streets of 1970s Detroit, where blood isn't always thicker than water.
Eldorado Red has it all—new cars, women, and plenty of money. But when you're the top dog, the sure bet is that someone—everyone—wants to take what you got. You just never think your own flesh and blood will pull the trigger. Now Eldorado's son, Buddy, is on the run. The thing is, Eldorado wants to let him go, but in the law of the streets, retribution has a mind of its own....
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Imprinted Images In My Mind Forever..
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Trick Baby tells the story of White Folks, a blue-eyed, light-haired con artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a "trick baby," a child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Refusing to abandon his life in the ghetto and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older mentor, Blue. What happens next is unbelievable.
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This was the wrong narrator for the book.
- By Jonah on 01-20-17
By: Iceberg Slim
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Crime Partners
- Kenyatta Series, Book 1
- By: Donald Goines
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where "kindness was the sweetest con of all", every bullet fired echoed with the sound of payback.
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DON'T EVEN P!SS YOURSELF OFF!! 😒🤬
- By Shay on 09-16-21
By: Donald Goines
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Dopefiend
- By: Donald Goines
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend - both attractive, talented, and full of promise - are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie. It is a horrifying world where addicts will do anything to get their next fix. For 23 years of his young life, Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder in his late 30s. He had worked up to a hundred-dollars-a-day habit - and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend.
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raw truth
- By shelby on 12-28-15
By: Donald Goines
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Reflections
- By: Iceberg Slim
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 50 mins
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At the age of 18, Iceberg Slim was initiated into "the life". Predominately in Chicago, he was incarcerated several times for pimpng, along with several other crimes. During his last stretch in prison he wrote "Pimp" which sold over 6 million copies. In 1976 Slim made this recording, "Reflections", the poignant and memorable recounting of many of his true life experiences. The stories told are not easily forgotten and leave their indelible mark on the listener.
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Excellent Always
- By T. Kane on 05-29-23
By: Iceberg Slim
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- Jimmy
- 08-06-24
classic
Another classic by Donald goines, Another great book. one of his best. great book
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