This is no great literary marvel but it is an entertaining read. I've been a fan of Goines for awhile now and have read a few of his books. I have more than a few here left still to read and more than a few I still to get. I'm more partial to Goines than Slim from what all I've read so far.
I'm still somewhat surprised I like Goines' works so much because I'm very sensitive to matters pertaining to race. I don't go for anything racist, no matter how "small" it may be. This is racist not against one race, but two. Blacks are condemned by the whites, whites are looked down on and hated by the blacks.
I can't lie - it does make for hard reading. And more, some of what Goines' wrote was somewhat over the top. As in, the main character, George, is a black man and he has a huge dick. But each and every while man has a "tiny piece of white meat". I'm not sure if Goines' had ever seen any other dicks but his own in his life but I'm here to tell him - and anyone else feeding into this idiocy - that it's not true. There are black men with little dicks and white men with big dicks. That's the way the cookie crumbles folks. So, it's a small aspect of the book but for me it took something away.
As much as I hate that our history is as it is, when I read a book like this I want to be able to feel the realistic aspects. Here, with these parts, I feel like Goines' gave in to his bias and his racism. That's just as bad as any white man giving it to a black man. Racism is racism no matter what way it's going.
But this book is a good one, it's a fast one at something like 180 pages (there's a decent sized portion of Kenyatta's Last Hit included at the end) and it's obvious Goines was a master storyteller in his day.