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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Milo Books (1 Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903854342
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903854341
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars By THE Original Gangsta, 12 Nov 2006
I first heard about Tookie Williams via the internet but never bothered to read any of his earlier books, as they didn't seem to cover his life, only his views on various subjects. But this one, his autobiography, was a must, and I was not disappointed. Williams was THE Original Gangsta, co-founder with Raymond Washington of the Crips, probably the biggest and best-known black street gang in the world. He became a legend on the streets of LA for his violence, his fearlessness and his bodybuilding, which sparked a whole fashion for huge "prison muscles" that continues to this day (see 50 Cent, etc). Eventually given the death penalty for murders he always denied - and there is no doubt that the LAPD in that period could be an extremely dubious outfit - he spent the rest of his life on Death Row until his execution late in 2005. This book was written while he was inside and the way he writes and thinks is clearly influenced by the reading matter he had access to and his process of self-education. An absolutely fascinating portrayal and one of those instant classics that no true crime library should be without
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sadly, a good read., 19 Feb 2007
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Purchased book for my son who thoroughly enjoyed it, it gives a good incite into his life and his mind at times when he was eventually imprisoned for murders he repeatedly claimed his innocence for. If you live by the sword then you will probably die by it. Tookie was no innocent man and did many things no mother would be proud of a son achieving but he did seem to try and address his crimes in his writings. Whether that was because he was on death row, or not, who will ever really know. This story how-ever is a good read and a truthful account how a boy becomes a murdering gang member from the streets of the damned. I hope he rests in peace. Sadly his book sells because of his crimes and not because of his literary skills.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tookie's Ghetto Gospel, 8 Oct 2005
Initially I found this, the autobiography of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, co-founder of the notorious L.A. Crips quite hard to get into. It took me a while to work out why. Then, after persevering for many chapters it began to dawn on me. My problem was that I was finding it hard to listen to Tookie's written voice. Having been on Death Row for so long, developing a vast vocabulary from the contents of the prison library, Tookie's tales of childhood and of 'Crippin' sound very filtered. The book's strength is its incredible honesty and the sheer force of Tookie's personality but its weakness is that it feels a bit processed, and becomes preachy in places - but maybe that's allowable, this is after all a book with a message, with a cause. Sadly that was an unfulfilled cause as Tookie finally met his maker via a lethl injection on Dec 13th 2005.
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