Battle royale

4,5/5 Wow

So unputdownable it's ridiculous. Took a 4-hour plane ride i intended to sleep on and instead read all 624 pages of this; and while I'm a fast reader, even I'm not THAT fast usually. Basically, as everyone else is saying, it's a book about one class of Japanese junior high kids put on an island with Leggi tutto

first read this back in 2010 when i needed something to help my ‘hunger games’ obsession. now im doing a reread because i need something to help my ‘squid game’ obsession after binge watching the entire series in two days. and let me tell you what. im soooo glad i kept my hand-made character chart fo Leggi tutto

Hunger and squid games, Kings´death marches, close to every new, great slaughter fun is an interpretation of, an homage to, or simply stolen from this alternative selection procedure trope to form the true, pure elite. I think the origin of the idea isn´t important as long as it´s hardcore violence No Leggi tutto

I first read this story in Manga form a few years ago (one of only two manga series I've enjoyed) and I quickly became addicted to these characters and their individual stories. Whilst reading Battle Royale , you go on an intense journey into the minds of nearly all 42 students and discover what it i Leggi tutto

Edited@07/10/2022: "We did what we think we should." This is what I wrote in 26th September 2014 when I read the Chinese translation of this book for the first time, @page 44 / 5.91% "Just when I was reading Battle Royale at 12:00 in the morning, I learnt from Facebook that police had been

Bueno, bueno, bueno, lo que teníamos aquí y yo sin saberlo... Una ve z más gracias, gracias y gracias a mis amigos de GR por decubrirme esta novela. Si es que esta web es una gozada, ya se lo digo yo a todo quisqui. A lo que vamos, va de que meten a toda una clase del insti - en un Japón alternativo c Leggi tutto