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Rating:  - Kinda Grody
This book was a big hit in the drug treatment center where I teach. However, I could not get past the first chapter, as it was really graphic and upsetting, to me. Of course, I want my students to read, but I think I may have just been encouraging most of them to mentally relapse. I don't know what to think, but I won't be reading this book any time soon. Sorry!
Rating:  - The final scene is the deepest experience I have ever had in a book.
Donald Goines is one of my favorite authors of all time. The brotha knows how to bring reality to a novel. I have read all 16 of his books and his biography by Eddie Stone. All of the books were very real, but Dopefiend is the hardest book I have ever read in my life. The first few chapters are harder than any book I have ever read. The book keeps the pressure on and just when you think it can't get any deeper, comes that ending scene where the young woman walks into her friend's (the hooker) room. I would love to see this book made into a movie but unfortunately they would rape it. This is one of those books that is too hard for the big screen. And they would never do that ending scene not in a million years. I had all of his books but these books are meant to be shared and I have lent them all out and never got them back. I will be building up my collection for my soon who is six months old now.
Finally this book should be required reading for so called drug preventative courses.
Does anyone know where to get the Daddy Cool Comic book?
Rating: - Cant go wrong with Goines'
Donald Goines, a writer and hustler from Detroit, churned out lots of drug themed books like this for Los Angeles' legendary black publisher, Holloway House [home of "Iceberg Slim"]. All of his stuff is great, but 'Dopefiend' is especially over the top and well worth reading. This is one of those books that once you start you can't put it down, lots of great graphic junky stuff. A tale that takes you thru the daily struggles of a inner-city dopefiend and the length's one goes to get a 'fix'
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Rating:  - This book will make you think twice about heroin
My girl gave me this book because she had to read it for school and all I can say was WOW. On the real I was so disgusted from all the details of what useing heroin was does that I woudn't come near the drug with a ten foot pole. This book should definitley be used in high schools throughout the country because it really makes you see the consequences drugs have. Goines is a classic writer and without him we would not have the explosion of urban literature today. Without Goines there would be no Nikki Turner, Sister Souljah, Shannon Holmes, etc. Definitley read this book and see how devestating drugs can be.
Rating: - I've done anything worse than marijuan 3-4 times, so...
This book was a shocker. I picked it up because I knew I needed to do a report on an author or a work of an author for Freshman Comp 2. I was rocked by it. I had to argue to my teacher that this was better than a lot of books that are normally considered literature.
I almost didn't get the report done. One of the sources I needed for Goines conviently came out a few months before the report was due. I blazed through that book as well. Even though I got a B, I felt so strongly about doing the report on Dopefiend even with little info to go on.
I did a speech on Heroin for Speech class as well. Lot I didn't know about Heroin. After reading dopefiend especially, I believe heroin should be legal. It would be safer, cleaner, cheaper, and more easily accessible. It really isn't any more addictive that cigerettes. Most of the problems come from high prices and the crap they use to cut heroin.
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