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Praise for RING:
‘The pace doesn't slacken for a moment … a guaranteed page-turner’ OBSERVER
‘Suzuki builds tension brilliantly’ GUARDIAN
‘Bristles with menace and fear’ UNCUT
Praise for SPIRAL:
‘A truly spooky read’ METRO
‘Suzuki blends the dispassionate, inquisitive, sometimes terrifying urban character-types to be found in Haruki Murakami’s work with the plot mechanics of a Stephen King or Michael Crichton’ Kim Newman, INDEPENDENT
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Praise for RING: 'The pace doesn't slacken for a moment ! a guaranteed page-turner' OBSERVER 'Suzuki builds tension brilliantly' GUARDIAN 'Bristles with menace and fear' UNCUT Praise for SPIRAL: 'A truly spooky read' METRO 'Suzuki blends the dispassionate, inquisitive, sometimes terrifying urban character-types to be found in Haruki Murakami's work with the plot mechanics of a Stephen King or Michael Crichton' Kim Newman, INDEPENDENT
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Harper Collins edition of Dark Water contains seven stories, excluding the prologue and epilogue. The stories are quite short, and often much of the story is spent steadily building tension. This works really well, as I found that I had a sense of unease building, when things started to go wrong.
If you are expecting a mirror of the film, Dark Water, then you will probably be disappointed. The story, Floating Water is a much more subtle, shorter version of the film. You can definitely see elements of The Ring in some of these stories, not least the author's preoccupation with water.
I for one would like to see more of Suzuki's work published in English, as well as other Japanese horror.
The stories, Adrift and Forest Under the Sea really stand out for me; both involve the main protagonist being trapped on their own; at sea, and in a cave. I definitely regret reading those late at night!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although many others who have reviewed this book have managed to find fault with it in some way, I do not share the same attitude. Though other customers may well have read a lot more books than me and more specifically, have read other books by Koji Suzuki, I do not have the luxury of having suzuki's back catalogue of other material to base my opinions of this book on. Therefore, as a newcomer to his style of writing, (with the exception of having read the cult classic Ring) I hope to convey a far less pessimistic attitude towards this book, Dark water.
Let me begin with saying as a student, this kind of book works perfectly for me. It is broken up in to short stories, allowing for bite-sized chunks of reading easily digestible yet not time consuming. Sometimes with other books, on returning to them when I've found the time, I must re-read pages just to remember what's going on, but with dark water I could finish a tale and then later come back to begin a new one, allowing for an enjoyable and exciting treat each time.
Having seen the film dark water (the japanese version), I was dissapointed with the length of the tale from which the film originated in the book, however, taken into account the relatively small number of pages this story occupies, I feel the story's tension and creepyness does not suffer as a result of its length. In this book less is definitely more.
Each story is similar in length but on each page, Suzuki conveys, and describes so much, carefully picking his words to convey everything from the deep emotions of each character to the environments they inhabit. He has written a relatively short book - which is decieving, as it is in fact packed with detailed and genuinly creepy tales, each of which I thoroughly enjoyed.
These are my own personal views on this book, but as a newcomer to Suzuki's works, Dark Water has managed to hook me in, further beckoning me to read some of his other books.
For anyone who hasn't been scared by a book for a while, this is perfect!
Let me begin with saying as a student, this kind of book works perfectly for me. It is broken up in to short stories, allowing for bite-sized chunks of reading easily digestible yet not time consuming. Sometimes with other books, on returning to them when I've found the time, I must re-read pages just to remember what's going on, but with dark water I could finish a tale and then later come back to begin a new one, allowing for an enjoyable and exciting treat each time.
Having seen the film dark water (the japanese version), I was dissapointed with the length of the tale from which the film originated in the book, however, taken into account the relatively small number of pages this story occupies, I feel the story's tension and creepyness does not suffer as a result of its length. In this book less is definitely more.
Each story is similar in length but on each page, Suzuki conveys, and describes so much, carefully picking his words to convey everything from the deep emotions of each character to the environments they inhabit. He has written a relatively short book - which is decieving, as it is in fact packed with detailed and genuinly creepy tales, each of which I thoroughly enjoyed.
These are my own personal views on this book, but as a newcomer to Suzuki's works, Dark Water has managed to hook me in, further beckoning me to read some of his other books.
For anyone who hasn't been scared by a book for a while, this is perfect!
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I have read the "Ring" trilogy, discovering Koji Suzuky and decided to read what else I coluld find of him, well translated, for I don't know Japanese. I have happened to love his breathless, but daily settings, and his way of involving the reader. Besides, I am no reader of horror stories, and after Poe, Stevenson, Lovecraft, Stocker and some other classics, I didn't read much, for, thanks to the little I tried to taste, there is just a satisfactory (for the writers or the editors?) wish to scare, mostly through splatter filthy things.
This is a collection of short stories that, like the three "Ring" novels keeps the attention of the reader high, without falling in easy horrifying chills running through the spine. I found them a way to get closer to a world so different from my "Western eye" (the connection with Joseph Conrad is wanted!) with intelligence, through a good piece of literature; prometheic sparcles of self questioning. Another way of thinking, another borderless mithology from which surely the writer has "fished". The whole collection no doubt pushes to think, to enrich, to wonder, and it makes me remember the disperation of the sad Frankenstein running monster/soul as it appears in Mary Shelley's story. Worth to be read with attention. If not, Suzuky seems able to catch the reader's one anyway, startin from where one never would think of the presence of upsetting facts, and taking him wit a gentle but firm hand, until to an always unespected end! Great.
This is a collection of short stories that, like the three "Ring" novels keeps the attention of the reader high, without falling in easy horrifying chills running through the spine. I found them a way to get closer to a world so different from my "Western eye" (the connection with Joseph Conrad is wanted!) with intelligence, through a good piece of literature; prometheic sparcles of self questioning. Another way of thinking, another borderless mithology from which surely the writer has "fished". The whole collection no doubt pushes to think, to enrich, to wonder, and it makes me remember the disperation of the sad Frankenstein running monster/soul as it appears in Mary Shelley's story. Worth to be read with attention. If not, Suzuky seems able to catch the reader's one anyway, startin from where one never would think of the presence of upsetting facts, and taking him wit a gentle but firm hand, until to an always unespected end! Great.
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Published on 24 July 2009 by Feanor
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