DONALD GOINES
SoulOnIce
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Anybody seen this? The DVD can be had for next to nothing on the Bay,but I'm not getting inspired by the prospect of theDonald Goines story through the eyes of DMX and Fab Five Freddy...B/WAnybody read his stuff? I've read two and liked them both, but he has so many I'd be interested in which people thinkare the best, so I can pick up a few more without stressing. 
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A funny story.
About ten years ago I put "Trick Baby" and "Black Gangster" by Donald Goines on my Christmas list that I gave to my mom, kind of as a joke. Come Christmas morning I open a box with about 10 Goines books in it. It was one of the coolest gifts I ever got. She told me the lady at the bookstore gave her a dirty look when she asked fo them.
The books are real gritty and street level. The books are filled with pimpin', dope shootin', hustlin', and 70s ghetto life. They're easy reads and you can usually get through them in under a week (some only took me a day to read). Donald Goines talked the talk and walked the walk. If reality and authenticity is what you want, these are the books. He was shot here in Detroit years back in what was called "a drug deal gone bad".
Recommended:
"Black Gangster"
"Trick Baby"
"White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief"
SONIC
When I was running a residential treatment center for gang youth years ago, Goines was about the only thing that those dudes would read.
just for clarification "Trick Baby" was penned by Iceberg Slim
My fault, I meant "Whoreson".