false 57891 9 Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence, is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television. A Japanese pulp classic available in English for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old gangster director Kinji Fukusaku. 2786327 book 1999 Battle Royale total:1959|5:906|4:647|3:327|2:67|1:12| 1959 8245 3190 361 5 8 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 09:13:41 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 13 10:12:18 -0700 2009
Basically, as everyone else is saying, it's a book about one class of Japanese junior high kids put on an is...more...]]> 5 7 false false Wed Apr 23 21:49:48 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 11:57:26 -0700 2008
I have read this book twice in the last two years both times within two days and I c...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Jun 23 08:04:10 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 08:18:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 6 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Feb 27 10:28:01 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 27 10:38:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 20:21:34 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 14:37:29 -0700 2009 The Hunger Games so totally ripped this off." And for the first half of this book, I agreed: I thought I knew exactly where BR was going, and how it would get there. It's the story of 40 teens who are instructed to kill each other until only...more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 09:21:03 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 23:28:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jan 20 10:09:11 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 10:14:46 -0800 2009
It was pretty well written, but didn't do a lot for me. The basic ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 15 14:43:02 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 15 10:08:05 -0700 2009 Survivor where tribe members voted out ...more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Jul 15 16:57:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 16:57:18 -0700 2008
I picked up Takami's Battle Royale mainly because the guy in the bookshop open...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 16:59:20 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 11:58:16 -0700 2007
The basic plot: Japan is one of the few thriving countries in t...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Nov 13 21:44:30 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 21:50:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Dec 20 11:04:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:15:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false true Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 07:16:17 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 08:00:27 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 13 08:58:13 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 29 19:56:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Feb 04 15:02:21 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 15:36:57 -0800 2008
This book is Survivor and Lord of the Flies' bastard love child being baby sat by The Running Man. Take a class of Japanese middle schoolers in a dystopian alternate present (or not too far from tomorrow), force them to fend for themselves on an ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Apr 07 05:56:52 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 06:03:30 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 12:03:08 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 12:03:08 -0800 2009 The setting, conflicts, and symbols make author’s novel Battle Royale intriguing. In Battle Royale, author Koushun Takami talks about a setting in a Japanese environment during World War 2 era beginning with a class of 42 students that gets captured in a deserted island fighti...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 12:25:47 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 12:32:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jan 28 02:01:35 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 02:49:02 -0800 2009 Twice more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 30 01:51:44 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 01:52:31 -0800 2008 Captivating Read... The Pages Roll By

I had Battle Royale on my "to read" list for quite sometime. I finally managed to get my hands on it, and it was worth the wait. Battle Royale is a captivating read, from start to finish. As the tile suggests, the pages fly by and after seve...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=57891