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title: "Battle Royale Paperback – February 26, 2003"
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# Battle Royale Paperback – February 26, 2003

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Loved the movie? You'll love the book.
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2023*

I found the Battle Royale film back in 2006 on the internet due to the controvery surrounding it, giving it a legendary status akin to Miike's Audition, and adored it. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan, where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller and a MASSIVE and poignant culturally relevant success.  Lots of vividly described gore and carnage throughout. Some detailed explanations include eyeballs popping, decapitations, holes shot in bodies, exposed brains or guts, and more. This book is not for the faint of heart.One of the most amazing things about Battle Royale is how the author manages to give his characters fairly fleshed-out lives, despite how many students there are. Most middle school students in real life have cliques and crushes, and these are no exception. (See the circled labels and dotted lines in the chart.) Despite the danger, they find their friends and their beloved. Readers know middle school love hardly survives, but the characters want to die without regrets. They feel compelled to confess their feelings, lose their virginity, or apologize to their friend before they become the next target.The dialogue is natural and hardly ever preachy. Some of the kids involved in politics wax poetic about the country and its failings. Most of them, though, are content to gossip about their crushes or other students. They talk about their families, hobbies, and pasts. They make plans for a future they may never see.Battle Royale is much more than “the first Hunger Games" or the book it ripped off.  Its beautiful characterization of a huge cast is phenomenal. The teens are complex human beings, and both their lives and deaths reflect this. While the book is exceptionally gruesome, those deaths tell a story and give dignity to the young lives that just ended. Its pacing keeps readers on their toes, but never drags out too long and I think Battle Royale is a great "step up" for someone who enjoyed the premise of Hunger Games but wants something heavier and more grounded in reality for adults.Whether it be lessons on working together to forge off seemingly impossible situation, the dangers of being a political ideolog and sycophant or conveying the generational gap between adults and teenagers and how adults treat teenagers like idiot rebels without a cause, I was both surprised and pleased to walk away with a different point of view than I had upon beginning this eye opening work of fiction.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hunger Games was boring, Battle Royal is not
  

*by C***B on Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2019*

I picked up this book to read as a recommendation from a friend. I mentioned that I like the idea of “Hunger Games”, but found the movie to be boring and lost interest of it half way through. “Battle Royal” to me is a combination of “Hunger Games”, “Lord of the Flies”, “Surviving the Game”,  and the “Running Man” blended into one epic story.“Battle Royale” starts off with 40-9th grade students who are captured by the government and are taken away to a secluded island. They are instructed to play a game, and are sent out into the island and have to hunt each other down until there is only one survivor left. The winner gets to live a rewarding life.As a fan of horror/thriller books, this book surprisingly satisfied my interest in those genres. Violence is definitely what you get, and a lot of it. Some battles are grotesque and some are simple. It really brings to light what kind of personality changes can happen to someone when they are facing death when given options of survival. At first I was intimidated by the size of this book. It’s a little over 600 pages and double the size of a standard paperback book. The author did a great job of not being overly descriptive in each scene keeping the story a fast paced read. To me, a good chunk of the story could have been shortened. Times when characters reminisce of the past prior to the game did not apply much to the story, and conversations between characters got a little too repetitive. Moments like that could be pace read through in a page or two and you didn’t feel stuck with nonsense rambling-on as senseless filler.Starting the book was a little difficult. As an American, I had difficulties being able to instantly recognize characters by their names, not knowing which names were of male or female context. Sometimes characters are referred to by their last name through the story, and the chart in the first few pages made a great referral. The students drop so fast through the book, that you really don’t have to keep track of whos’ who through the whole story with the exception of a handful of characters.A lot of the book is predictable. I got through 1/4th of the book and was able to foresee the ending. Even the actions/ideas/situations that some of the students carried out were obvious to happen. There weren’t very many twists to the book, but this did not deter me from continuing on reading. The adventure as a whole story kept me enthralled. Action, violence, humor, betrayal, conniving, compassion, strategy and intelligence are riddled throughout the whole book.I absolutely would recommend this book to people who enjoy the horror/thriller genre. I am happy that I have another great book to add to my collection.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    One of the best books I've read yet!
  

*by D***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2023*

Great story one of the best!

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