Book Review – Battle Royale

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Anyone picking up this book expecting version of The Hunger Games will be extremely shocked by what they read. Both books are centered around a game that forces young people to kill each other, but, beyond some incidental similarities, these two books are about as different as night and day.

Pushed To The Top

Cover of the 2009 expanded edition, ISBN 978-1-4215-2772-3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

After seeing the movie Battle Royale, I became curious about the story.

As it happened, I lucked out.  Now my latest book acquisition has pushed itself to the top of my to read list.

Movie Night… Kind Of

Battle Royale (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today was movie day.  Unfortunately, it just was not the movie I was expecting to see today.

(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)