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Ring (Hardcover)
by Koji Suzuki (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Hardcover: 284 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (7 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007178840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007178841
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 399,549 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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'Ring is a guaranteed page-turner.'

Synopsis
Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular videotape. When he watches it, instead of a movie he finds an odd collection of disparate images with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So much better than the film, 28 Jun 2004
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The original Ring is better than the remake and the book I thought was better than the original. Although very much different from the movie it is still a compelling story with twists and turns along the way, a real page turner. In the novel Asakawa is a married man rather than a divorced woman in the film and Ryuji is a self proclaimed rapist who seems to enjoy bragging about this. The video in this book is again very different from the movie including scenes of a newborn child and an old woman. Sadako herself is 'dual gendered' having the privates of both a man and a woman which leads in some way to her being thrown into the well after a Dr. Nagao assaults her and afterwards discovers this secret. The infamous TV scene at the end of the movie is not present in the book being a brainwave of the screenwriter and in some ways the book ending seems to be more eerie and frightening. All in all this is a very good read but not quite as polished as its follower 'Spiral'. I would reccomend this book very highly but as is always the way, some like it and others don't.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this!, 28 May 2004
By Captain Kirk "kirkusuk" (Grimsby, England) - See all my reviews
I've waited months to find a copy of this book, after becoming a huge fan of the original Japanese films. When my copy finally arrived, it was even better than I'd expected.

To anyone who's a fan of the original Japanese films, I'd recommend the book. The films are very true to the book, but there is also a lot in the book that isn't included in the film series (e.g. the fact that in the book, Asakawa is male...). It's an excellent read, and a must-have for any Ring fan especially, but I'd recommend it to anyone.

Don't go straight for the book if you've only seen the American film. The book is not at all similar, so it could be a bit hard to understand. I recommend watching atleast the original "Ringu" first. I myself watched all of the films before reading the book, and it made it much easier to read, and more enjoyable. What can I say... I'm just a huge Ring fan!