Ring Group Read Discussion

[Selena]

A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.

Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.

Discuss Ring here!

Reading Scheudle
8/15-8/21: Part 1
8/22-8/28: Part 2-Part 3, Chapter 2
8/29-9/4: Part 3, Chapter 3-5
9/5-9/11: Part 3, Chapter 6-9
9/12-9/18: Part 3, Chapter 10-12
9/19-9/25: Part 4

[Selena]

Sorry for the delay everyone! Thread is up and ready for discussion.

Would people be interested in a group watch of the movie version (Japanese and/or English) when we get close to the end?

[Selena]

So we're about halfway through this creepy read. How are you guys enjoying it? Has anyone seen the movie version? How do the two compare?

[Terrence]

I have not really seen the movie fully, but I read the book a long time ago.

I tried recommending the book to people I was with, and someone who knew of the movie was trying to say "oh, it's too scary, they wouldn't like it". This really isn't that "scary" if I recall, it's more mysterious. Most of the book involves these two dudes trying to explore this cursed tape and figure out how to survive it, and it's a lot more sweeping than you'd expect setting wise (definitely not your traditional "hole up in a building and try to survive" horror; these people are actively researching and figuring stuff out like detectives).