Battle Royale by Koushun Takami Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Battle Royale
Book Review: Battle Royale
Summary: 5 Stars
'Battle Royale' is an excellent Japanese novel that is both gripping and original. I won't describe the storyline as the amazon page has a pretty good synopsis. I will say that from the first page you will be hooked and you will find yourself returning to this book at every free moment to see how the story develops. It is a simple premise, superbly executed (excuse the pun!) and you will become completely immersed in the mindsets of the various characters and how they behave. This book, like the film, is deemed controversial and yet I can't see any real reason why. It is a violent novel, but no more so than others out there, and it has a great many redeeming qualities compared to those other pulp fiction horror books. The translation is very good, so much so that you barely realise you are reading a translation at all, the ultimate goal I would have thought. This book is so easy to read that the 613 pages will fly by in no time at all. The ending, considering the subject matter, manages to leave you satisfied and with an adrenaline rush as well. One of the better modern fiction books i've read in a while and well worth a read.
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Book Review: Battle Royale
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was simply amazing. It gave amazing details of scenes, and captured me the very first time i picked it up.Book Review: Battle Royale - High Octane Thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you set a bunch of teenagers on a island and put them in a game to kill each other, me neither but in this exciting book you get to find out.
Battle Royale tells the story of a boy named Shuya Nanahara and his classmates in a ridiculous game created by their sick government. The game is simple yet sick and twisted because the once friendly classmates now are pitted against one another and must kill to win. Shuya and a girl who was injured in the beginning must out think and out kill their once friendly classmates.
This is probably one of the greatest books I have ever read. The way Koushun Takami writes and the way he depicts everything makes it feel
like I was there. I would only recommend the book for an older audience
because of mature content of what happens in the story. There are some questionable things in this book that i didn't see the point of but it worked for Koushun. All in all this is an amazing book and i would recommend it to anyone that wants an exciting read and who isn't afraid of blood or gore. Do yourself a favor and read this book.
Book Review: Battle Royale from 42 to 1 in 3 days max
Summary: 5 Stars
Well picked up this novel yesterday, @ borders finally. Battle Royale the novel has marvelously been translated by the people @ viz pulp section, with the approvale of the author so you know this is a top quality release. The book has the same stream as the movie just it goes into much more details, some scenes are marvelously described by the author. I can just suggest this book to any avid battle royale fan or anyone that thinks outside of the box that society has placed you into.Book Review: Battle Royale's Inner Battle
Summary: 5 Stars
Your fifteen years old and your life status at this point seems pretty ok, in fact, things seem just as good as ever. Your government runs this program- The Program, that is- third year junior high grades [9th grade in america], are selected by lottery, on an annual basis to participate in this program. If selected, you and your class get to go to some island or isolated area and play a game of survival... to the extreme. Last one standing, most literally. Given one weapon, a liter of water and some lousy bread, you are sent off one by one into the area; Your instructions? Kill your friends and don't be killed. If you want to ever go home again, you must be the last one alive.
If you are looking for something different then the traditional run-of-the-mill writing, then this book may just suit you well. As the book says- its almost like a 21st century version of Lord of the Flies. Its a gripping tale of fourty two students who are selected to participate in The Program, much to their horror. The book travels along with Shuya and Noriko- how they meet an unexpected ally, Shogo, and they try to beat the odds and get out of the game. Things arent as easy as they seem though, because everyone else has this same idea in mind.
Before their eyes they see their classmates killed off as some participate in this 'game' and some try not to. It's a tale that reckons with a human's inner battle; the want and will to do right, to do good, and how easily it can be manipulated if an instance of fear for life is brought in. It shows how no loyalty, regardless of how deep, can last; no friendship, regardless of how strong, can truly stand; and how love, being the strongest, is the only factor that can perhaps overtake the surging need to live.
If you can deal with idea of students fighting for their lives, and if you can deal with the death scenes, you may find this book fall among your favorites. I highly recommend this book. Yes, there are some rather graphic scenes of death [yet, not overdone as to be disgusting or disorderly], but the themes portrayed through the writing are so well written in and held up that its completely worth reading. Not only this, but the writing style is unique. Passages are well written to a point where the effect on the reader is quite strong.
Well written: 9/10
Sex: 0/10 [none]
Violence: 20/10
Unexpected Twists: 10/10
When something as great in value as your life is on the line- good intentions sometimes take an unexpected turn.
Hope this helped. Happy reading!