Robopocalypse

I think Io9.com put it best when they called it the summer's best movie - in book form. Daniel H. Wilson thanks Dreamworks in the Acknowledgements and IMDB already has Steven Spielberg attached to the project. You can't help but cast the protagonists in your mind and it reads like a script. Therein lies my biggest complaint. Daniel H. Wilson writes in the first person as each chapter jets you around the world from protagonist to protagonist. Unfortunately the 12 year old speaks in the same writerly tones as the construction grunt or the aged Japanese tinkerer.

Still it's a compelling read and only the end lacks the theatric oomph I was hoping for, finishing with a whimper instead of a bang. Still you can't help but see each action packed set piece laid out in cinematic form and drool at the prospect of this being turned into a movie. This could be a unique case where the movie will surpass the source material.