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From Pimp Stick to Pulpit--"It's Magic": The Life Story of Don "Magic" Juan

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ONLY PURCHASE THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE A PIMP/HO FANATIC. I READ FROM PIMPSTICK TO PULPIT IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS AND WAS EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED. I THOUGHT THAT "MAGIC" WOULD HAVE GONE INTO MORE DETAIL GIVING THE READER MORE VISUALS AND DETAILS ABOUT THE PIMP LIFE. FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BEAT HIS HO'S, HOW DID HE PENETRATE HIS HO'S MIND, OR WHAT WAS HIS LIFE WAS LIKE ON A DAILY BASIS. I FELT HE GAVE AN OUTLINE OF WHAT HIS SO CALLED PIMP LIFE AND IT'S SOMEWHAT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT HE IS NOW SAVED. HE DID NOT SAY HOW HE HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO GOD AND HOW HE MAKES HIS MONEY NOW. WHY WOULD A SAVED, NATURAL MAN OF GOD STILL PUT A PERM IN HIS HAIR? MAGIC IS STILL A VAIN MAN FROM THE PIMP WORLD WHO HAS A NEW HO. THE CHURCH. THIS HAS LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT HE IS PIMPING THE CHURCH, BIBLE, AND MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH WITH RHETORIC. IF YOU CHOOSE TO READ THIS BOOK, BORROW IT FROM A FRIEND OR GO TO THE LIBRARY.

I just finished reading this book in 2 days, (would have been 1 if I didn't have to work). The book is a direct view of the pimp's life, lifestyle, and some of the roadkill on the highway of the fast-life. Excellent to see actually what goes on.

This was more like a school book than anything else. It is like no other book that i have read. This book is a short biography leaving out the details that would have made it a 5 star book like Pimp by Iceberg Slim

Known for his eccentric style, it's not unusual to see The Bishop Don "Magic" Juan wearing snake skin boots, a massive jewel-encrusted sombrero, more diamonds than Kay's Jewelers, and glasses that cover half his face. His way of speech has privileged us all with additions like "Chuuuch" and the ubiquitous "you dig" - it's his version of "um". You may have seen him in music videos for 50 Cent, Twista, and Da Brat. Or perhaps the Daily Show or The Girls Next Door. He's even got a fairly respectable IMDB page that boasts Old School, S.W.A.T., Friday After Next, and Starsky & Hutch - not to mention his scene dominating coming out parties in "Pimps Up, Ho's Down" and "American Pimp", documentaries about the pimping game. The man's a legend, and he's connected to music, sports, and movie celebrities.

From Pimp Stick to Pulpit-It's Magic: The Life Story of Don "Magic" Juan, is a biography - told from his sister's point of view - of a man at the apex of pimping. It's the tale of a Chi-town guerilla pimp, a man who sadistically abused, controlled, manipulated, and violently beat his stable of women. And somehow they loved him; they adored him. Being a mack is typically considered to be more of a mental game, you dig, but sometimes a ho needs to fear for her life. Most of the book is about this fear; pistol whippings, whip whip lashings, iron pimp stick beatings (think Pimp-Kendo). But he didn't hurt their pu#@ies or their mouths, because that would affect his paper. Yet they STILL came back to him because of a prostitution version of Stockholm Syndrome - they "loved" him.

It's one hundred pages of drugs, liquor, Rolls Royces, money, sex, talks between the whores and Don's sister, and, yes, bloody, merciless beatings. Then, it's just over ten pages of the PCP-induced metamorphosis from Pimp to Bishop. Seems a bit disingenuous and incomplete to me.

It's an interesting character study, and some insight into a pimp's life, but it's primarily a shallow tale of the grungy underbelly of prostitution in America. The true purpose wasn't about The Bishop's revelation and transformation; it's still about his fame, fashion, and money - primarily the money.

I just wanted to say yes this book could have been better. The pimp game is not all about manipulating a weak person's mind anybody can be broken. Educated or no education at all, Its all in how you implement your efforts. Its not worth buying the book.

The one thing I learned from this book is that the pimp/prostitute relationship is not about sex or money. It is about a vicious form of non-consentual sado-masochism. The books consists primarily of a tedious series of brutal beatings and humiliations. If this is the kind of thing you enjoy reading I suggest the Marquis de Sade, his prose are more lyrical, and his accounts challenge the status quo.

In "From Pimp Stick to Pulpit" there is scant attention paid to the subject's conversion and no reference to a pulpit, or to the consequences of his actions prior to, or after, his acceptance of Christ. The book does communicate well the human side of each of the characters, but in the balance all are found wanting.

The book characterizes the mack life as one of glamourless, degenerative moral and intellectual decay - and I don't mean that in the good way! The mack life is painted as a drug-induced haze of paranoia, manipulation, and defeat.

This is written by the sister of the legendary Chicago pimp Magic Don Juan. Its an entertaining short read. Lots of wild over the top stories from the heyday of a pimp that was "born again" and became an even worse hustler, a Jesus freak preacher.

Don Magic Juan's book took me by storm and his continuation is marvelous....He is not something for the squares he is more for the air. If you are wondering if you should buy this book then ask yourself if you are ready for a mind opening experience, dont buy this book to prove that pimpin aint what it is because you feel guilty after spending yo check on a lady of the evening, buy this book only to celebrate the beautifulness that pimpin has done for the tricks and the chicks.

I was a bit surprised that it wasn't more about God- seeing as how he went from Pimpstick to Pulpit.. I didn't see much of that.. and the book was explict for a Rev. But it's interesting... good photos..

This is a very interesting read. A quick look inside the life of a man, who has gone from burning the candle at both ends, to understanding what that candle is for. Great pimp stories but so glad he gave that up and found God.