Cloverfield by Matt Reeves

With out spoiling too much, I have too say Cloverfield is a very creative film. The premise is that something has attacked the city and some people at a party who have a video camera film the chaos as it unfolds. Basically it is as if Godzilla was shot from one of the little bystanders on the street. The graphics are incredible and very believable and the point of view approach keeps the viewers in the dark as much as the characters in the film. WARNING: it has been reported that this movie cause motion sickness, it is no lie, someone in my theater threw up (I know I just had to tell you).

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

 

Steve Harmon is a monster according to the state’s attorney. Without him a man would not be dead. Steve Harmon is on trail for his life and the outcome has never been more serious. Here is a story from a young mans perspective, he sees his life as a movie, like it is not happening to him. He is in court and spends his nights in jail. The reader sees what happens around him, as it happens to him. This is an incredible first hand account from Walter Dean Myers. The story of Monster was drawn from 600 hours of interviews with incarcerated individuals.

Walter Dean Myers is a very prolific author. In his long writing career he has written over sixty books and won several literary awards. He is essentially the father of the Urban Young Adult novel.