false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1250088671m/44188.jpg 44188 5 <div>Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing bestseller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more than 300,000 copies in print in the United States alone. After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name "Monster" for committing acts of brutality and violence that repulsed even his fellow gang members. When the inevitable jail term confined him to a maximum-security cell, a complete political and personal transformation followed: from Monster to Sanyika Shakur, black nationalist, member of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, and crusader against the causes of gangsterism. In a document that has been compared to The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Shakur makes palpable the despair and decay of America's inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto experience today.</div> 3962 1993 Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member total:690|5:207|4:244|3:186|2:50|1:3| 690 2672 903 123 2 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 23:44:27 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 00:04:45 -0800 2007
Ok, "Monster" Kody fucking shoots PEOPLE ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 08 08:43:32 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 07 08:18:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Wed Aug 01 10:09:55 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 10:25:03 -0700 2007 I think I got through this book in a couple of days that summer. I loved that the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 03 13:15:06 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 14:10:14 -0800 2009 I never read much into Gangsterism, not even Mafia style. I almost want...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 19:00:15 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 19:02:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 22 07:02:03 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:26:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Nov 17 07:22:55 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 08:31:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 05:44:25 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 05:58:58 -0800 2009
I kept waiting for Shakur's moment of revelation in the book...not the one where he realizes that gang fighting is simply destructing his society (whi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 21 01:07:21 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 08 21:48:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 18:59:19 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 18:59:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Thu Jul 17 15:47:21 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 16:22:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 07:04:22 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 08:00:01 -0700 2008 At...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 16:51:51 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 17:49:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 08:19:48 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 07:59:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:19:03 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:27:15 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:19:59 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:33:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Jan 05 21:19:58 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 21:33:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 08:36:34 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 08:38:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 06:25:29 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 06:28:11 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 29 15:43:32 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 15:45:37 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=44188