Loop: ('THE RING' series, book 3)
by Koji Suzuki
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Author: Koji SuzukiTranslator: Glynne Walley
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-03
ISBN: 193223425X
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Vertical
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Book Review: The law of diminishing returns
Summary: 1 Stars
Few people would disagree that the first book of this series - Ring - was probably the most influencial creation in horror in the last decade. The idea of undead Sadako Yamamura crawling out of the TV has spawned an entire 'J-Horror' industry, from film, to games to other books to spoofs.
Ring (Ringu) scared the bejeezus out of me, and so I was interested in where Suzuki took the series next. Sadly, it appears that as an author he only had one really good idea. The first sequel (Spiral) was lacklustre at best, and the second (Loop) is downright awful.
The problem is that horror relies upon the unknown to be frightening, and so the more it is explained, the less scary it gets. Spiral went some way to explaining Sadako, and Loop dismisses her astonishing powers with a single throwaway line - completely removing all suspense from the narrative. Instead all we're left with is a book in which all the twists are explained before they happen, which doesn't make for a very effective thriller.
The storyline follows Kauru, a precocious youth who lives in a dysfunctional family. When his father to struck down by a new form of cancer, he goes on a long journey to find the source and cure of the disease. It's here the story explains away all the horror and unexplained of the first two books, and the only surprise is just how dull the explaination is. By turns leaden, knowingly self-referential and trite, the story plods from set piece to set piece, assuming an ignorance of genetics and computing on the part of the reader in order to drive the plot towards to a conclusion which reads less like the cumulation to a wildly influencial horror trilogy, and more like to the script to a 1980's straight-to-video sci-fi movie.
If you're a fan of horror, or the Ring series, this is definitely one to avoid.
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