Sicuramente non esente da difetti, ma Battle Royale riesce a catturare il lettore e a risucchiarlo in un vortice di suspense e tensione, soprattutto man mano che ci avviciniamo alla file del libro.
E quel finale è ILLEGALE.
Se avete amato Hunger Games, date una chance a questo libro, La premessa è davvero simile ma alla fine i due libri prendono strade molto diverse, Super consigliato! Hunger and squid games, Kingsdeath marches, close to every new, great slaughter fun is an interpretation of, an homage to, or simply stolen from this alternative selection procedure trope to form the true, pure elite.
I think the origin of the idea isnt important as long as its hardcore violence
No matter who really first invented this concept probably an ancient writer who carved it in a cave wall or the Roman entertainment circus its always a great, manly alternative to the, in contrast friendly, softer tributes Collins or just not as good death marches King.
Ok, King had the idea first, but he focused on exactly one storyline, so thats not really such a big copyright infringement, And close to all literature is somewhat reinterpreted, borrowed, or, well, really stolen, but who says that these concepts cant be used a thousand times Nobody would say that a thriller or a romantic love comedy novel is stolen, because of the extremely small leeways of these genres that force authors to write with similar character and plot stereotypes to live up to the readers' expectations.
Of course, it could sometimes be that the coincidences sum up to incredible improbability, but even if someone took more thanor, butorelements and tropes, it doesnt really subjectively matter to me.
Because even with the same story, there are different groups of readers who want their journey told in individual ways with focus on completely different elements and perspectives.
Society needs strict rules
I dont know why people are always having so many problems with testing procedures, the real world is no rainbow unicorn playing on the pony farm paradise.
Maybe its more human to select before the poor teens have to suffer in soul eating jobs and offer them cool ways to avoid suicide by getting killed by their peers Did anyone ever think about the positive aspects of such a system, how much suffering is prevented that way, and how proud the parents of the survivors must be Were sadly just getting too soft as a society
Social criticizing the heck out of mentioned society
There is of course the background of dystopic, fascistic, dictatorships that keep the population motivated with hardcore selection processes, selling the whole thing in cooperation with the military industrial complex, and thereby camouflaging the dystopic living conditions with bread and circuses.
The only difference to modern society is the level of bloodthirstiness and how brutal the elite manages to keep the masses calm and dull, but I dont really see that much difference to close to all modern, Western, democratic countries that drug their population up to the eyeballs with consumption, all kinds of entertainment, and media reporting about the free, great election hold up all few years that dont change anything substantial.
But at least the politicians managed to outsource the battle royales to the exploited, poorer nations,
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sitelink org/pmwiki/pmwiki. ph No se por qué, pero siempre tuve esta extraña fantasía en donde iba a un Battle Royale con mis compañeros de secundaria y yo terminaba ganando.
Obviamente esto no es plausible porque tengo una hermana melliza e íbamos juntas al mismo curso, jajaja, Nunca pensaría en matar a mi hermana, . . o si ES BROMA, TE QUIERO MUCHO,
Bueno, hablando en serio ahora, Tenía mucha anticipación con este libro y fue muy bueno, Sí, es verdad que es largo y los nombres de los personajes son un embrollo, pero después de unas cuantas páginas no se tiene problema.
El autor te deja muy en claro quienes son cada uno y el rol que van a cumplir en la historia,
Fue un viaje de ida y vuelta, la verdad, Me produjo muchas emociones me daba ternura, me reía, después me horrorrizaba y al final lloré, Era tan inmersivo que no había manera de que lo pudiera soltar! Es muy díficil conseguir eso conmigo, siempre me distraigo fácilmente, así que creo que tanto el ritmo y el desarollo de la historia fueron muy constantes.
Sonpáginas muy bien aprovechadas,
Lo que también me gustó fue la caracterización de los personajes, Era muy realista, por así decirlo, la manera en la que actuaban, Tienen quince años y se nota bastante, Algunos eran muchísimos más interesantes que otros, por supuesto, pero en general era divertido seguir a cada uno y su hilo de pensamiento hasta donde llegaran.
Hubieron dos en particular que me hubiera encantado conocer más, aunque no sé si eso hubiera sido bueno o malo, jajaja,
Además, también están las reflexiones respecto al gobierno totalitario que los obliga a participar en el juego la sociedad en la que viven, la censura y el motivo por el cual nadie puede ir en contra de ellos.
Muy pero que muy interesante, Vi un paralelismo con El Señor de las Moscas, en donde también están los que luchan para estar en lo más alto y otros que solamente quieren hacer lo correcto, tratando de no verse influenciados por las autoridades que los someten.
Conclusión: muy entretenido, con toques de amistad y mucho gore, La única pega que le pongo es que me hubiera gustado que el romance no fuera un foco muy principal, ya que sentí que reducían a muchos personajes, especialmente a los femeninos, a solo eso.
I picked this up based on the fervor over "OMG 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 ofteens who are instructed to kill each other until only one remains, and are each given a bag containing food, water, and a weaponsome as great as machine guns, others as worthless as forks.
Early on some alliances are made, then broken people are betrayed and killed,
But about halfway through, Battle Royale and The Hunger Games part company, By the end, I don't think it's the same story at all, It's a similar story, definitely, but BR's strength is that most of thecharacters manage to be sympathetic characters, We get backstory on just about all of them, find out who they were before they were thrown int this crazy game, what motivates them to do certain things, and we even see their individual battles against each other.
There are a couple of factions we return to multiple times, the ones who are clearly our heroes, but with only one or two exceptions we don't have villains.
Hunger Games, everyone who wasn't from Districtwas a villain, someone to be avoided and distrusted, and that was easy because we didn't know who those other characters were.
In Battle Royale, we know all these peoplethey're classmates, some dating back to elementary school, There are histories here, friendships and crushes and romantic entanglements, and that makes the killing that much more horrible,
Oh, and for those who thought Hunger Games was a violent book Whooooooooo boy, This was absolutely horrifying at times, The gunfights were bad enough, but the graphic descriptions of handtohand combat were particularly brutal, It's not the violence that's gratuitous, exactly, but the lengthy descriptions of it, and even that goes a long way toward worldbuilding and accurately conveying the horror of the situation.
A bit on the writing: This is not Shakespeare, There's a lot of "basically" and "of course" and "in other words," and there's a LOT of use of the passive voice, Whether this is a writing issue or a translation one is a mystery to me, but you'll roll your eyes at the writing at least once a chapter, I'd say.
Note that I remember seeing at leastchapters here, . . start your eye exercises now, so you're prepared for all the rolling! But writing quirks aside, this is really engrossing, the kind of book I blew bedtime by several hours for three nights running.
Whenever I think of this book, I picture the author sitting down with a piece of paper and making a list of dozens of violent, unusual ways to kill a person.
Poison! Jumping off a cliff! Lot of guns! Strangulation! An exploding head! Falling off a roof! Splitting open a head with a machete like it is a ripe watermelon!
Then he goes about the task of writing a book that incorporates each and every one of these deaths.
And are you concerned that you will never keep up with all the Japanese names Never fear! Forof the cast, you dont really need to know their names.
Within a few pages of being introduced to someone, you can safely bet theyll be dead, You have to remember the premise of the book promisesodd deaths in the span ofpages, You do the math. Or I'll do it for you, That's a death everypages assuming they are evenly spaced, which they basically are,
In all seriousness, the translation is shoddy, And I think sitelinkHunger Games has more heart, But this book is worth reading although perhaps not during a trip to celebrate your second wedding anniversary, It is entertaining in its own strange, gruesome way, It is certainly fast paced rememberdeath/pages, And there are a few interesting ideas hidden beneath the gore,
Would you trust the person to your left not to kill you if encouraged No Or the right Well, RUN!!! I first read this story in sitelinkManga form a few years ago one
of only two manga series I've enjoyed and I quickly became addicted to these characters and their individual stories.
Whilst reading sitelinkBattle Royale, you go on an intense journey into the minds of nearly allstudents and discover what it is about them that enables normal high school kids to kill their classmates or decide not to.
I'd recommend reading the manga before or instead of the novel for a few reasons, For one, it makes it a lot easier to keep up with all the similar sounding names when you have a face to put to it, For another thing, you don't have to struggle through a translation that isn't too smooth, I felt there were times during the novel where the sentences were disjointed and/or abrupt, it wasn't a huge problem for me but I know it will annoy some other readers more.
Though I appreciate that the violence in sitelinkBattle Royale might make some readers queasy, I never found it to be gratuitous like a lot of other people did.
It's not unrealistic that when people are put into a situation of great fear and distrust they will go to any lengths to survive, It's biological. If you're in a kill or be killed situation, then nine times out of ten you will choose your own life, And if you're in a situation where someone with a gun may or may not be trying to kill you, are you going to ask questions first and risk getting your head blown off Maybe.
But you're either braver or sillier than most, then,
I am going to compare this to sitelinkThe Hunger Games, though not because I want to make a statement about how Collins plagiarised she probably didn't and, even if she did, no one's going to prove it either way.
Their similarities just make them good books to use for a comparison: fight to the death, teenagers, isolated arena, etc, sitelinkThe Hunger Games, as I'm sure you all know, focuses on Katniss and her life, the other characters both good and bad are seen solely through her eyes.
In sitelinkBattle Royale, the perspective changes frequently I liked it but it may infuriate some and looks at many different types of people,
Though both stories are considered dystopias, I think sitelinkThe Hunger Games' world is more developed and easier to picture as a reality, I have a very clear idea in my mind of the Capitol and the districts, I don't have such a vivid image of this oppressive Japanese state.
. . though I don't really think that's the point, For me, sitelinkBattle Royale is a much more psychological story, it looks into the dark depths of the human mind and doesn't censor anything it finds.
I think it's more frightening because of the collars that can be made to explode at any time, because of the time limit set on the players, and because all the participants are classmates.
I also felt there was a greater sense of urgency,
On the other hand, I think sitelinkThe Hunger Games is a more emotional read, BR is an interesting exploration of the human mind, I liked finding out why the students were able to do what they did, but the only death that really filled me with regret was and that was only a touch.
As much as I like BR, it does seem a little like a case study at times, sitelinkThe Hunger Games' strength is that it is the opposite of this you really care about Katniss and what she does for her sister, the choices she makes affect the reader emotionally instead of just being something to scrutinize.
Maybe they were built on the same ideas, but both novels do something very different and I appreciate them equally, My biggest criticism of sitelinkBattle Royale is Shuya the good guy, He is the weak link in a great novel, Why Because he's so goddamn perfect, Goodlooking. Popular. Talented in sports and music, Kind. Selfsacrificing. I just don't like heroes, give me someone who reeks of humanity any day over the one who seems unnaturally above it all,
Final note: About what I said at the start if you thought the novel had too much graphic violence, ignore my recommendation for the manga.
If you don't like reading about it, I'm certain you won't want to look at it, .
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