Warning: This book includes multiple mentions of rapes and a main character who is likely a rapist. Also, one of the main characters deliberately misgenders another character. Kazuyuki Asakawa is a reporter who got into a bit of trouble in the past. From what I could gather (it was a little confusi...
The following review will have spoilers, because while a lot of terrible things happen in the beginning of the book, some terrible things happen later in the book which need to be mentioned. The following review has triggers for rape, domestic abuse, suicide, and victim blaming. Here we go.The only ...
[spoiler]A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure. Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable deat...
Ring (Ring Series, Book 1) Author: Koji Suzuki Translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley A last minute decision forever alters the life of Kazuyuki Asakawa in this gripping story about a video of incongruous images delivering a death threat to the viewer. Four mysterious deaths in Tokyo, wh...
Bad boys, Bad boys! what you gonna do, what you gonna do, when SHE comes for you! )))) Fantastic read! I’m going to read the other books in this line! Recommended for the kids under 5 or for the patients with repeated hearts attacks (joking) )))
From time to time, you do get your hands on a horror that is not quite a horror, but more like a thriller. Fammiliar, "Ring"? I'm sure many of us have seen the movies for this book. I've seen them. I was twelve. I haven't got over it. It basically changed my imagery on monsters. Before the movie, I ...
This book jumps straight into the action, with two teenagers dying in very mysterious ways, at the same time. in the second chapter, we meet journalist Asakawa, whose niece died in Chapter 1. in a taxi, he learns about the second mysterious death from the driver, and after doing some more digging, h...
This was something a little bit different for me. I haven't read any Japanese authors before, nor have I seen either of the film adaptations.I found it quite an engrossing story based around an interesting idea but I would have preferred there to be left a little more room for ambiguity so that the ...
Very good Japanese horror novel. This is the book that the film Ring was based on. There are some substantial differences in characterization and action yet not in plot. Is Koji Suzuki really the Stephen King of Japan? It is too early to say that based on my reading of just one novel. He certainly d...
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