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Daddy Cool: A Novel (Old School Books)

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Daddy Cool is one of Donald Goines's best books. Goines has to be respected for not taking the easy way out with his characters. Daddy Cool is not so much a novel about a hitman as it is about a father in sudden turmoil, faced with conflicting loyalties. As with his other books, this Goines novel can't be appreciated with a closed mind. His writing style is straight forward and graphic. Unlike many writers, he doesn't do it for shook value. There is no mistaking what he wants you to see or how his characters feel. He writes from experience and tells you a fictional story set in a very real world. It's not pretty, but reality rarely is.

This book was much more than what I thought it would be. Goines brings Daddy Cool, a professional hit man, to the forefront. The thing is this is much more than a man out killing people. It's another example of him having a story within a story. His daughter runs away from home after a heated argument one night, and that is when the story really picks up. Now Cool has his job to do, which was stressful enough, and has to locate his daughter, as well as having problems at the house with his two stepsons, who know all too well what was going on without letting Daddy Cool know about it until it was too late. Another classic by a classic writer.

In the book "Daddy Cool" by Donald Goines talks about his story. He wrote about his family and how he go through the problem with his daughter. His daughter and him were having an arguement, she moved out and live with her boyfriend. While she lives with him, he told her to go out and work as a whore... I reccomend this book because I think this book is very interesting. It talks about a real life person who have to go through a lot of trouble.

This is another boonie dog book review from Wolfie and Kansas. The novel "Daddy Cool" by Donald Goines is about a professional hit man. In the opening pages, the hit man murders a watch dog in cold blood. In his book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors", Rex Feral has a section on bumping off watch dogs. We wonder what is wrong with North American hit men. Here on Guam, crooks realize it is easier to bribe us to be quiet with canned meat than to kill us.

As we were reading "Daddy Cool", we thought we found a few things to nitpick about--an occasional scene that strained our willing suspension of disbelief, a passage here and there that seemed too brusque. However, when we finished the book, we realized the sun was setting. We had spent the entire afternoon reading "Daddy Cool" straight through in one sitting, without taking a single break to munch on Milk Bones, bark at passing traffic, or chase a cat. That does not happen to us often. The power and sustained suspense of Goines's writing just snuck up on us. That is why we give "Daddy Cool" a high rating despite the miscaninthropic opening.

This was the first book of Donald Goines I read and I was like I would never read another one of his books. I was really disappointed because everybody was talking about how good of a author he was. I decided to give him another try and found out this was like the only book that was horrible. I enjoy reading all of the other books but this one I just was not feeling. Janet left her father home to sell her body for nickles and dimes. Her father would have given her anything. The father was killing people with a knife. Back then they had guns. I just did not like this one.

It's OG Call from a OG. I started reading Donald Goians (DG) in the early 80's . This is not as much about Daddy Cool as it is about the whole 16 Donald Goines classics.

I have all 16 and have read all of them several times over the years. When I met young people who were not prone to read, I used these books to get them into reading. To date only 2 of Donald's books have been made into films. Of the two, only one was a quality production. "Never Die Alone" It was very good and had very good production value. Interestingly enough, Never Die Alone was my least favorite DG book. BTW it stars DMX in the lead role. Check it out on DVD. On the other hand, one of my favorite books Crime Partners by DG was a horribly made movie. It had Ice T, Snoop Dog and quite a cast of characters. Based on the low budget and the love both Snoop and Ice as well as others in the Hip Hop community have for DG, I have to assume that most of the " Name Actors " worked for scale or free. The main financing came from a person who can be seen on Season 1 of American Gangster on BET. His name eludes me but if you watch all of season 1 (and you should) it will come up

Anyway, back to DG's books. Donald had a talent that I have never seen in any other writer He was able to draw you into the book in the first two sentences and you were hooked like a fish on line. In many respects his writing could be described as " two dimensional " Yet as soon as you the reader arrives, the 3rd dimension is supplied and then the journey can begin.

As a young man (30 years ago )I sat in a restaurant on 127th on Malcolm X Blvd . It was there that I saw for myself a real life "Porky. " Who is Porky? He is one of the main characters in arguably DG's most powerful book "Dopefiend" he sat across from me when a women came in, who was obviously a heroin addict. The man sat there clearly unmoved by her pleas or tears. He then whispered something in her ear and I saw her head slump and it seemed as if I could see the last shred of her dignity leave her body like a ghost drifting up from a dead body. She shook her head yes and he sat there in no rush and finished his food. When he finished, she followed and it was at that point that I understood just how real the character Porky was and that there were and still are Porkies all over the country if not all over the world. To fully understand you would have to read Dopefiend. Hopefully people will buy all 16 books and NOT lend them out. When I bought my first DG book I think it was about 2 bucks tops. I looked at my current printing and it is 3.95 per book.

So for me after I recouped all of the books I never got back I vowed never to lend them out again.

The new price, 9.95 Still If I did not have the set I would over a period of time get the whole set.

One word of advice; four of the books need to be read in the following order: Crime Partners, Death List, Kenyatta Escape, and Kenyatta's Last Hit. Those 4 books should be viewed as a mini series.

Warring, Conspiracy Theory. I have always felt that the " Kenyatta Series " the aforementioned 4 books was why he was killed. Considering the subject matter of the 4 books and his un-dying popularity among black youth and the concern of the US govt. with politicized black youth It's not hard to see why those 4 books and their writer might be frowned on.

I give the book "Daddy Cool by Donald Goines five stars. "Daddy Cool" is a realistic getto fiction book that is about a ruthless hitman who would do anything to keep his daugther from staying a prostitute. what is good about "Daddy Cool"is your not forced to read it because once you read one page your going to read other pages and before you know it you have finished the book. "Daddy Cool" is a fiction book but ther are some events in the book that can really happen. I was so satisfy with the book "Daddy Cool" that I went on to read more of Donald Goines books. so far I have read "Crime Partners" and "Street Players".

Daddy Cool is cool indeed. A man who legally owns a popular pool hall and illegally assassinates people for large sums of cash. Even his wife does not know how he manages to leave town for a few days and return with a stack of money. Either she is just ignorant or doesn't want to admit the obvious.

Daddy Cool's teenage daughter is determined to be independent. She does not like the fact that her father wants to control her every move, including whom she dates. So what does this overzealous sister do? She leaves home after a heated argument, runs into the arms of her boyfriend, and ends up selling her body to please him.

Daddy Cool's two stepsons know what their half sister is up to but are more concerned with milking Daddy Cool for money and material possessions. Once Daddy finds out that they knew of her whereabouts the entire time he was searching for her, he bans them from his life.

Misfortune quickly turns to tragedy in this novel. Daddy Cool, a man who always assumed he was untouchable, has to deal with a flood of emotions and make life or death decisions that keeps readers on the edge of their seat until the violent, climatic ending.

I believe this is the fifth book that I've read from Goines and for awhile, I was starting to wonder 'Why are people so into him?' The last two books I read from him were not good. But this one, wow! I didn't want to put it down. It was an easy, believable read all the way through. Ofcourse, Goines is on point with the dialogue, gives me a reasonable amount of descriptions, and the plot was smooth, but that's all his stories. But this one did something that a few have not--he didn't add unnecessary characters, his characters developed accordingly, and they were all well-rounded. This is the story of a hustler/killer who can't handle his daughter as a prostitute and his stepsons as beginner criminals. He can destroy everything else that bothers OTHER people but can't seem to handle his own problems.

Tiffany Morris Oak Park MI The book DADDY COOL By Donald Goines was filled with extream amounts of action and a few heartwarm moments.Basicly the book is about a guy Larry Jackson or better known as Daddy Cool to his friends and family. He's a black hit man and his clients know that he is the best. He could pull a trigger or toss a knife and never blink an eye. All that counts to him is the bread. That and his daughter Janet. Her reespect and love means everything to him.He gives her presents and a lot of his hit money in hopes of buying them. But his daughter is smoothed talked by this guy Ronald, a young blood pimp out to make a name for himself on the streets.Ronald calls Daddy Cool Daddy Fool, but Daddy Cool is nobodys fool.Soon Ronald will discover that or will he?