42 Japanese students hijacked and taken to a remote island for a government sanctioned contest to kill each other off. Only one can survive. The winner, not only gets to live, but also gets some dough and a signed picture of a dictator dude. Sweet. An excellent survival tale of murder, betrayal, man...
The first few chapters are a bit confusing. There are tons of characters introduced all at once, and the translated text has a slightly awkward feel, but the latter isn't so bad once you get into the rhythm of it. The dialogue is also stiff in some areas, but this, again, is probably due to translat...
A busload of Japanese teenagers is kidnapped and dumped off on an island, where they are forced to fight to the death until one student remains, all in the name of The Program. Which of the 42 students will survive? I remember hearing about the film version of Battle Royale ages ago but never manag...
As someone who has never read The Hunger Games I can't really compare the two. Which I guess is a good thing considering I didn't already have it in my mind that THG would be better. I'm really not sure what I can possibly say about this book without there being a wave of spoilers, but I'm going to ...
I think I would rate this 4.5 Stars, but my mind is all screwed up right now. So I may come back and change my rating, but I really liked this....Is that morbid since so many people gruesomely die?
This book was a huge back and forth with me. Sometimes I despised it, sometimes I loved it; sometimes I wanted to give it one star and sometimes I wanted to give it four. Although this is a pretty famous film, I’d never seen it, so I was able to go into reading this for the Underrated Bookers group ...
Jesus Christ I wonder if I can complain to this tired whore's pimp to get the time and money I spent on it back. Why, yes, I do believe that the analogy of Battle Royale being a badly performing whore IS an appropriate one, and I will take it one step further. This book is a whore who has a sterli...
I am impressed, really impressed. Forty three characters (forty two students plus one instructor) and all of them different and exquisitely well portrayed. Every character and their various conducts in such an extreme situation were totally convincing. I was completely immersed in the story right af...
I couldn’t find this as an e-book anywhere, so I had to go in to a bookstore and purchase the physical book, gasp! And this book was huge – around 600 pages! Here is an excerpt of the publisher’s summary:Koushun Takami’s notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class o...
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