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Street Players

By: Donald Goines
Narrated by: Midnite Michael
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Clawing his way to the top, pimp Earl the Black Pearl believes he is untouchable, but when someone puts a hit on his friends, he has to fight back to save his own life.

In this, his fourth novel, Donald Goines tests the tensile strength of a ghetto spawn who clawed his way to the top and fights like hell to stay there. He's known as Earl the Black Pearl, and he's left the homeboys behind-way behind. He's cool, sharp as an ice crystal, and it seems that no one can touch him. Until someone even higher up puts the heat on and his friends begin dropping like flies-of lead poisoning. That's when Earl fights back . . . and all hell breaks loose!

"He lived by the code of the streets and his books vividly re-created the street jungle and its predators." -New Jersey Voice

©1973, 2001 Donald Goines (P)2023 Tantor
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Another Gritty Story From The Master Bro. Donald Goines

Midnite Mike did an excellent job narrating this audiobook. He added the right vocal inflections to make the book listenable & interesting.

Donald Goines is & will always be the Master StoryTeller of the Black Experience. I’ve read ALL his books many times over & it’s exciting to have his work rolled out (though a bit slow) in the form of audiobooks.

I am waiting for the rest of his books to come to audible especially “Swamp Man”.
I can never catch the website audible refers to at the end of story. I’ll try once again to go back & listen.

The Black men & Black woman narrating these books in the Donald Goines collection thus far have done an excellent job!

I recommend you give them a listen✊🏾

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Another Classic

This book makes you feel in the action as a person from the ghetto I relate to a loy of this content. Donald has a way of making you feel like you there, it's a good story and very real. A lot of what went on back then still goes on today.

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Took a while to warm up

It took a while to warm up for me instead of the usual in your face action his books usually have, but this one did not disappoint. Was worth the wait. Not as good as his other books, but still good!

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I really couldn’t get into the story because the narration was so awful.

Narrator can’t distinguish between male or female voices, Felt like my third grade kid was reading the book bring back Kevin Kennerly.

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Not Donald's best

As a big fan of Donald Goines listening to this audio version reminds that this is probably one of his lower tier titles...The story feels disjointed and goes nowhere until it tries to pick up the pace. By the time it ramps up...the story is over leaving the reader:listener unsatisfied and lowkey wanting more

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I'm probably the biggest Donald Goines fan in North America but I would have to say Street Players is actually my least favorite book in his collection.
It's not bad but the story doesn't really grab you like his other 15 books. This is coming from someone who has read each book about five times over and over again.
You be the judge. AUDIBLE, PLEASE give me Swamp Man and Cry Revenge!

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