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(note - i wrote this review awhile ago and am just rewriting it)Fiction. Drama. second book i read by iceberg slim. the ending reminded me of irvine welsh or chuck palahniuk. written in an older African American style street slang that very much reminds me of what irvine welsh does. the plot tells the life of several characters from there youth and far into there adulthood. almost all characters are black and almost all are very poor. this is an excellent book and very much worth reading.
If you have not read a Robert Beck/Iceberg Slim book, please do. You will become addicted!
This book is raw, moving, shocking and so darn sharp it cuts deeply. One of those novels whose story haunts you once you turn the final page.
With its copious amounts of explicit sex and gratuitous violence Doom Fox was a refreshing change of pace from my usual fare. Set in post-war LA, it’s a world centred around the love-triangles of Joe Allen, a washed up ex-boxer, Reba, the long-term love interest he longs to possess, and his rivals for her attention, spoilt medical student, Pretty Melvin, and wunderkind preacher, Felix. Both Joe and Reba’s parents also feature prominently in the story, but only to highlight the sex-madness of the...
Stick to exclusively writing about criminals, Slim.
Back in the beginning of this book I didn't think I'd like it very much but since I enjoyed Mama Black Widow so much I'm still trying to find an Iceberg book that gives me what that did. This wasn't it but is still a good story. Doom Fox is about a lot more than the back cover description lets on. I'm glad I read it but I'm still trying to find another Mama Black Widow......
One of my favorites of Slims books. Fantastically well written in a pure basic way, no flowery bullshit, no schoolin' & his honest life, what more could anyone want, well it works for me....
(FROM JACKET)Propelled by the story of Joe "Kong" Allen and his gorgeous, treacherous wife, "Doom Fox" is the last in Iceberg Slim's legendary series of underground novels. Written in 1978 and unpublised until now, "Doom Fox" is a tale of the Los Angeles ghetto that begins just after World War II and spans the next thirty years. In the no-holds-barred tradition of Chester Himes, "Doom Fox" captures a violent, vivid world of low-riding chippie-catchers, prizefighters, prostitutes, and smooth-talk...
I liked the book as a whole. A very good read if you are a fan of urban literature. However, I hated the ending. A very sad way to go out.
Doom Fox by Iceberg Slim (Grove Press 1998)(Fiction). Rapper "Ice T" wrote the intro to this book. He praised Iceberg Slim as an authentic Black voice of the 1940's ghetto. What this book is is a crime/action novel set in the ghetto and featuring every possible insulting Black stereotype. The storyline is silly, and the narrative is almost unreadable. On the other hand, no less an author than the current king of noir, Andrew Vachss, has dedicated a novel to Iceberg Slim. Maybe I'm just missing
Tragic.
