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Originally posted by SoloRHO:
Pretty Squeaky,
It's interesting you brought up Donald Goines. My closest friends are Icegerg Slim and Donald Goines fanatics. And they have me wanting to read his work. But its my understanding that their the same person. They say that Donald Goines used the name "Iceberg Slim" as a pen name while he was in jail... something about he wouldnt be able to keep the profits or something dealing with the politics of prison. I dunno.  Anyway, they say when he got our of jail, he started righting under hs real name. That's why in the back of his books, there's a listing of his other work AND "Icegerg Slim's" work... and vice-versa with "Iceberg Slim's" books. They're supposedly one and the same person.
But Im definately gonna take a look at his work.
[This message has been edited by SoloRHO (edited December 14, 2000).]
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Nope they're not the same person. Now Iceberg Slim autobiographical work (to some degree) is Pimp. But the reason why Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim are listed together is because when Slim was locked up he started reading Goines books and they inspired him to write his own.
Now they say that Goines was murdered because of his books. Some kind of conspiracy or something. Anyway he had one work that wasn't completed and Slim finished it. Now don't quote me on all this...I saw this somewhere on the net. I'm saying they were supposed to turn one of his books into a movie starring DMX I forgot which one. But they were getting a lot of flack with that. So I don't know how accurate this website is. But that's what the site said.
But what I do know is that in one of Goines books (I wish I had it with me so I could tell you.) it tells how Goines was murdered before he completed the book.
But please definetly check out Goines first. I suggest whoreson. Yo the book is real. It's the first Goines book I read and it had me hooked.
And yeah Goines was murdered before for Pimp came out. So who knows. All I know is that I love them.