Michael Covino of
the Village Voice wrote of Donald Goines: "All those [other black] writers, no matter
how well they dealt with the black experience, appealed largely to an educated white
readership.
Review: Baby let me tell you-I knew absolutely nothing
about Donald Goines until my mother turned me on to him. I went to the library
to get a book, she asked me to pick up one of her favorite childhood books "The
Boxcar Children" and anything by Donald Goines. I wasn't familiar with his work,
so I shrugged told her "aight" and picked it up for her. When I got back, she
started in on her kids' book and I read the back cover of the Black Girl Lost
book, then I started reading it. No lie, I swear 'fo neck bones I read that book
in like 4 hours! I didn't take a break, and when I did to use the restroom, I
took it with me! The way he describes everything happening is like you are
actually there-it seems so real. I bought every last one of his books and have
read them several times over. He is a literary genius! by
MsDivaVixxxen@aol.com
Review: 4-2006 Every book I have ever read
from this man kept me wanting more, like a young lady writes," I didn't even
like 2 read until i picked up a Donald Goines' novel, the first book I read was
"Never Die Alone" and after that I was reading every Donald Goines book I could,
and being from his hometown of Detroit, I must show this man love, Bezzy,
Hate~N~Pain Recordz
daboybezzy18777@aol.com
Donald Writes
No More
by Eddie Stone
-Holloway House Publishing Company/Mass
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Donald Goines was all of these things. He started
as a kid, the product of a middle-class family. After high school he joined the
Navy, and discovered the heroin that would rule the remainder of his life. On
the streets, he turned to writing when he was straight enough to keep at it. He
used the language of the streets and wrote of the streets and its people. His
success was immediate and exciting, But eventually the streets claimed him. He
was murdered as he sat writing a new book. Here for the first time is the
completed story. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Review: DONALD
WRITES NO MORE By Eddie Stone. The late Donald Goines is treated with dignity here and the
biography is hard to put down. If you're a fan of Donald Goines and are interested in
knowing about his background and what drove him I recommend this book. I also recommend
anything by Iceberg Slim aka Robert Beck. by Kirk Alex, author: Working the Hard
Side of the Street
Black Gangster
by Donald Goines
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A large part of Goines' thirty nine years of life was spent being a
successful pimp, a heif, an operator of corn liquor houses, an armed robber, and
a small time dope dealer. He lived the life of the streets and out of that
experience he created Prince, the anti-hero of Black Gangster! It's the story of
the shocking underworld of black organized crime and the fledgling black
"godfather" who goes from teenager ganglord to powerful Detroit mobster. Like
the gangsters of the 1920's, he begins with boot-legging and branches out into
every known crime --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
Book Review: 2-27-2001 Black Gangsters is
truly a magnificent peace of work. It didn't take me long to finish it due to the fact
that it was so suspenseful. I truly enjoyed this work of art and i can almost
guarantee
the same for you.
Black Girl Lost
by Donald Goines
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In this shocking novel of a young girl
alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto
experience-the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl s soul! Sandra took to
the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs
by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. The she met Chink
and discovered love and affection...and rape and murder!
Book Review: BLACK GIRL LOST: THIS IS A
MUST READ BOOK FOR EVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN I THINK IT SHOULD BE ON THE BOOK LIST FOR
STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. GOINES IS ONE OF THE BEST STORY TELLERS OF OUR
TIMES. THE BOOK OBVIOUSLY INSPIRED OTHER BOOKS THAT WERE WRITTEN SUCH AS B-MORE CAREFUL
BY: SHANNON HOLMES, COLDEST WINTER EVER BY: SISTER SOULJAH. AFTER READING CRIME
PARTNERS, DEATH LIST, KENYATTAS REVENGE, KENYATTAS LAST HIT I WAS A FAN BUT BLACK GIRL LOST
HAS TO BE HIS BEST BOOK. ODELL G. KIMNYAK@AOL.COM
Book Review: Black Girl Lost is another one of
Goines many masterpieces that grabbed my attention. It manifests the power of two
seemingly lost souls coming together in the name of love to form one, divided by
circumstance, but reunited by a unseparable desire for each other. If "true love"
could be defined this book would be the definition. Truly magnificent work.***********
Wyzdom Wyzdom@mailgods.com
Crime Partners
by Donald Goines
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Goines' powerful first novel lays bare the
bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it,
"kindness was the sweetest con of all." Here is the gusty and often shocking
world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the streets and hot n the trigger.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Street Players
by Donald Goines
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In this, his fourth novel, 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 mean-real mean.
White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
by Donald Goines
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Goines' classic novel of prison life, it has been called "one
of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and the bigotry built
into the system." This is the story of Chester Himes, who thought he was the
baddest man to come down the street. Behind prison walls he was nothing more
than fresh meat.
Inner City Hoodlum
by Donald Goines
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Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los
Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh
and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They're the soul
support of their families. But when Josh is killed by a security guard (who gets
his brains scattered by Buddy with nunchaku sticks), they are forced to look for
other work. They find it with the underworld kings in Elliot Davis. But when
Davis recruits Johnny's sister for his stable and later OD's her, Johnny and
Buddy come on with a vengeance.
Death List
by Donald Goines
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Donald Goines continues the gripping, gritty
story of crime in the black ghetto begun in CRIME PARTNERS. They're all back for
blood: Kenyatta, the gang lord with the army of brothers to deal deadly with
crooked cops and dope dealers; Benson and Ryan, fight to stop the black crime
wave. It's doomsday when Kenyatta joins then in a war against a secret list of
drug pushers.
Kenyatta's Escape
by Donald Goines
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Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto
of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and
white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the
location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to
his followers. In Kenyatta's Escape, Goines continues his story of the bloody,
brutal world of crime he began in Crime Pathners and Death List. They're all
back for a coast to coast chase that spells gripping adventure.
Kenyatta's Last Hit
by Donald Goines
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Kenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates
his army's ruthless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic.
With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit to the
army, Kenyatta discovers the identity of the fat cat king of the drug pushers.
The crack black and white detective team of Benson and Ryan follows Kenyatta's
trail of blood across the country...and a final confrontation high atop of Las
Vegas; most glittering hotels.
Whoreson
by Donald Goines
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Goines takes the reader into the violent world of
ghetto prostitution. Whoreson Jones, the novel's hero, is the son of a beautiful
black prosititute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he is a
fully- fledged pimp, cold blooded, ruthless. Written in gritty street talk,
Whoreson's story affords a startling glimpse into the hell of the inner city,
yet with bitter humor and defiant pride.
Dopefiend
by Donald Goines
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For twenty-three years of his 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 at the age of thirty
nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing
hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin
addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man
and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably
pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!
Never Die Alone
by Donald Goines
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King David never let anything stand in his way,
as he clawed his way out of the mean streets. If it took busting an old lady's
head open with a Coke bottle for her last dollar, so be it. Mixing battery acid
with cocaine to gain revenge was acceptable, too. Whatever it took. Then he made
it big-- only to find others had not forgotten, had no intention of forgiving.
They came after him. He left behind a Cadillac and a diary, left it to a writer
Donald Goines called "Paul Pawlowski." Like all Goines' novels, Never Die alone
is based on truth.
Daddy Cool
by Donald Goines
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This
marks the first appearance in trade paperback of any book by a writer who is a
star in inner cities and whose novels have sold an incredible five million
copies. Goines was never more hard-boiled than he is here, in this almost
Shakespearean revenge fantasy about a hitman whose icy heart melts when his
beloved daughter is lured astray by a smooth-talking pimp.
Eldorado Red
by Donald Goines
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Again, based on personal experience! When Donald
Goines was discharged from the Air Force, he was addicted to heroin. To support
his habit he staged the robbery of a number of local houses. And from that
experience came Eldorado Red! It's the vicious story of crooks who get richer
with the dollars of the ghetto poor. He's got it knocked; new cars, mellow women
and plenty money. Then he learns that treachery falls at the feet of his own
son!
Swamp Man
by Donald Goines
-Holloway House Publishing Company/Mass
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Goines' one book that is pure fiction and not
based on his life experience, SWAMP MAN is a mean story of violence, rape,
murder, and slow, stalking revenge. This one successful novel proved Donald's
writing ability."
Cry Revenge
by Donald Goines
-Holloway House Publishing Company/Mass
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The mean streets of Los Angeles run red with
blood when a no-holds-barred war breaks out between black and Chicano gang
lords. Still CRY REVENGE is one of Goines' most complicated and better told
stories.
Michael Covino of
the Village Voice wrote of Donald Goines: "All those [other black] writers, no matter
how well they dealt with the black experience, appealed largely to an educated white
readership.
