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elib.tech Exclusive… sharing elsewhere will result in being banned!Brought to you by GB Status : OpenGB Thread: Fox   Product DescriptionSlim’s powerful, raw prose and eye-opening reflections of black ghetto realities have helped to redefine modern American literature, offering the reader a glimpse into lifestyles and language never before seen in print.About the AuthorRobert Beck (1918-1992), aka Iceberg Slim, is the best known pimp of all time. He grew up in the mean streets of Southside Chicago where he became involved in the underworld that was to shape his life. He eventually left the pimping game after his third stretch in jail and began to write. He wrote seven books, all published by Canongate, the most famous of which is his autobiography Pimp. 5 Star Amazon ReviewDOOM FOX by Iceberg Slim is well worth reading. In my opinion, it was every bit as satisfying a read as PIMP or TRICK BABY or MAMA BLACK WIDOW. This, despite the fact that it was written in 1978 and never before published, most likely making it a found novel, without benefit of polish.The people in DOOM FOX don’t talk in anybody else’s voice but their own. And i found Slim’s ear to be just as finely tuned as in any of his other books. There is nothing fake about this book. And i think it’s very possible to write fiction and not be fake, although it’s rare. Iceberg Slim has not lost his touch for that, here.The characters speak from their own, often broken, hearts. They are looking for love. They look up alley-ways and in the lair of a junkie con artist and in eyes that are looking somewhere else, maybe while pledging fidelity. What they find, is something else altogether.So, what is the Kirkus reviewer objecting to ? Sex ? Does he/she think the author invented it ? ‘Language’ ? Same deal.The book is a document of characters reaching out for some kind of happiness before their final breath.Personally, i enjoyed spending time with them, because i could believe them; because they were real.Who could ask more of a book than that ?