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| Monster | 
 enlarge | Author: Sanyika Shakur
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.45
Buy New: $10.28
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Avg. Customer Rating:  182 reviews
Sales Rank: 1204876
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0330331736
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780330331739
ASIN: 0330331736
Publication Date: July 22, 1994
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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Writing from solitary confinement, a former member of Los Angeles's notorious gang, The Crips, recounts his baptism by violence into the gang at age eleven and his evolution behind bars into a militant black nationalist. Reprint.
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 Monster Cody December 12, 2008
Book is great. It's everything I thought it would be. Funny how blacks from that era of time all parrallel each other on so many ways.
 HIgh Content Motivating Reading. September 17, 2008
Even though Cody Scott pats himself on the back a lot, and it's obvious he is not finished with his foolish ways, I found the book useful in one way. I had a student I had known off and on since he was 5. He was bright and lively, and could not learn to read. He could make neither the visual or auditory connections with print . He couldn't remember what we went over with him . When you have both a lack of visual and auditory memory, it's not likely you are going to ever succeed at reading. It was unlikely my student, Alex, would ever be able to read. I received permission to use this in his case high interest book with this student. It was a last ditch effort. Alone with him in my office i would read a vignette, and just at the exciting part, I would refuse to read another word. But I would help him decode what was there. It was a struggle, but Alex did in fact succeed in learning to sound out, figure out, and remember what he read. So for that I am grateful to the author.
Dreary: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member September 4, 2008
Monster Kody Scott has been in one of the most ruthless gangs since age 11. He was drawn by the fame and respect that gang members in his 'hood received. Everything he did since age 11 was done to gain a reputation for his name and his set.
When I purchased this book I was very excited to get an inside look at the life of a gang member from one of the toughest streets in America, South Central L.A. I have always been interest in gang activity and thought this would be a great read on that fact alone.
For the most part the book was able to enlighten me on gang life, however, it wasn't able place me there, so to speak. The book was very very very dull and dry. There was no talk of emotion, from his first kill to his last. There was no talk about how stealing his first car made him feel, whether it be good, or bad, powerful, or paranoid I don't care which it was, but make it interest for the readers!!! I guess the hard streets have left Monster emotionally empty. Everything is stated very matter-of-fact manner, with minimal descriptions of events to make them coherent.
As I said before, this made for an extremely boring read. After reading about his 100th raid, I found I could care less, they were practically all the same. This book has no depth and at the end it felt like a homework assignment, forcing myself to finish it. Which is a shame because given his status in the Crips, Monster Kody Scott, could have given one of the best if not the best accounts of gang-life in America.
Over all I rate it 3/5. I know really only focused on the negatives of the book, but there are also good qualities. It is pretty rare that we get an autobiography written by a gang member, especially an O.G. It did add a level of authenticity that a D.A. or police officer would not be able to provide. All said and done, I would not recommend this book to a friend.
Eye-Opening Book About The Real Gang Life August 7, 2008
I've read this book several times over the years. Author Sanyika Shakur offers a sobering and disturbing look into the other side of Los Angeles.
For anyone seeking understanding into what turns a young man into a hard-core gangster, this book is invaluable reading. The book is unapologetically violent and includes some graphic descriptions of an inmate-on-inmate assault inside the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail.
Alot more people neeed to read this book May 10, 2008
Love this book but this book left me wanting more like what happened after he left prison in 91.I learned alot from this book things i didn't know;very good book.
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