I've read all of Robert beck's books and just got done reading dopefiend by Donald Goines it was good, I also bought " whoreson " and " street players " I'm about to start on those this week. The difference I've noticed between Beck and Goines so far is Beck uses way too much 1930s-50s slang and it some times makes it a bit difficult to understand, Goines uses slang but it's not overwhelming..