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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...

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336

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4041880017

ISBN13:

9784041880012

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October 27, 2023

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Enjoyable story with some questionable parts...

It's not scary per se but a bit creepy/unsettling.
There are some questionable choices made by the author but you could say it's a product of its time and some things have not aged well.
The bar for what is considered a decent man, is very low in this book.
It's the start of a series and as such the ending might not be as satisfying as I would have wanted it.

Language-wise, personally I found it surprisingly easy. There is lots of dialogue which definitely helps with that, I thnk.

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November 6, 2023

The book had a strong beginning and end, but the middle part bored me. Much of it felt more like a mystery than horror, and not a very well executed one at that. The ending did compensate me though.

As an older book, both the technologies used and the relationships portrayed are (or hopefully should be) outdated. Looking past that though, the book is considered a classic in horror fiction, and is referenced everywhere, so I'd say it's worth a read for that alone. Not the kind of horror that yo

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December 9, 2023

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November 8, 2023

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November 3, 2023