Ring (Ring #1) Paperback | Pages: 282 pages

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Original Title:	Ringu リング
ISBN:	1932234411 (ISBN13: 9781932234411)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ring #1
Setting:	Yokohama,1990(Japan) Tokyo,1990(Japan) Yokosuka,1990(Japan) …more Hakone,1990(Japan) Izu Ōshima,1990(Japan) Atami,1990(Japan) …less

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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 death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.

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Title	:	Ring (Ring #1)
Author	:	Kōji Suzuki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 282 pages
Published	:	April 25th 2004 by Vertical (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Mystery. Thriller. Fantasy. Paranormal

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The blurbs tell us the author has been called the Stephen King of Japan, where he is famous. Many of his books, including this one, have been turned into movies and even video games. He is a bit like Stephen King in his blend of fantasy, horror and mystery.,The basic story is that a journalist discovers that four young people -- two girls, two boys -- died separately and suddenly within a day for no good reason. They were of college age and all perfectly healthy. He becomes a detective, tracing

3.5 StarsI loved the premise, but I found myself comparing the book to the movie. As a horror story about a VHS tape, I just felt liked the story worked so much better on the screen. The author created a good sense of dread, yet I just never completely felt engaged in the narrative.

During a solo work/study trip to Ireland in fall of 2000 I was out one dusky evening exploring the cobble-stoned lanes of Dublin's City Centre when I stumbled upon the entrance to the Irish Film Institute movie house. Excited, I shyly stuck my head inside the front door. I felt a little bit like Alice discovering the rabbit hole. Hanging on the wall to my left as I walked inside was this movie poster:Remember, this would have been before the deluge of Asian horror (and the numerous American

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is no scarier horror book or movie than a book or a movie that comes from Japan. It chills one to the bones, makes you want to cry and curl under blankets, trembling in fear. Every single thing in this story is unsettling or creepy, even a little girl sleeping peacefully. Even someone's smile. Or a simple writing. Koji Suzuki infected me with terror.

Well, that was disappointing.Predictable, not especially well written (but that might be the translator's fault) and just not scary at all.And apparently being a rapist is just being "eccentric". Ok then.

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 though monsters may have been blue, or black, or dwarfy, maybe some of them really tall, some with horns or wings of big big teeth.. Yeah. After the movie, all monsters seemed to resemble that ...

I'll start with the things I liked about this book. 1. The story was very interesting and I found Sadako and her family very fascinating and I enjoyed learning about them along with the protagonists. 2. I found it very refreshing and surprising that the main protagonist was a man, women/teenage girls are generally the most common and most popular for horror and both the movies featured a woman so I didn't expect it to be a man in the book. 3. I enjoyed reading about how the protagonists figured