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"A student is not a tangerine." - Kinpachi Sakamoto, Third Tear Class B  "But tramps like us, baby we were born to run" - Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run"  "It's so hard to love" - Motoharu Sano, "It's so hard to love"  "During all those last weeks I spent there, there was a peculiar evil feeling in the air - an atmosphere os suspicion, fear, uncertainty, and veiled hatred. You seemed to spend all your time holding whispered conversations in corners of cafes and wondering whether that person at the next table was a police spy. I do not know if I can bring home to you how deeply that action touched me. It sounds a small thing, but it was not. You have got to realize what was the feeling of the time - the horrible atmosphere of suspicion and hatred." - George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia  | |
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▾Common Knowledge (short form) | Canonical title | Battle Royale | | Original publication date | 2003 | | Series | Battle Royale (1) | | People/Characters | Yoshio Akamatsu, Mizuho Inada, Keita Iijima, Yukie Utsumi, Tatsumichi Oki, Megumi Eto (show all 49), Toshinori Oda, Sakura Ogawa, Shogo Kawada, Izumi Kanai, Kazuo Kiriyama, Yukiko Kitano, Yoshitoki Kuninobu, Yumiko Kusaka, Yoji Kuramoto, Kayoko Kotohiki, Hiroshi Kuronaga, Yuko Sakaki, Ryuhei Sasagawa, Hirono Shimizu, Hiroki Sugimura, Mitsuko Souma, Yutaka Seto, Haruka Tanizawa, Yuichiro Takiguchi, Takako Chigusa, Sho Tsukioka, Mayumi Tendo, Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, Kazushi Niida, Yuka Nakagawa, Mitsuru Numai, Satomi Noda, Tadakatsu Hatagami, Fumiyo Fujiyoshi, Shinji Mimura, Chisato Matsui, Kyoichi Motobuchi, Kaori Minami, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Yoshimi Yahagi, Kinpatsu Sakamochi, Keiko Onuki, Ryoko Anno, Masao Hayashida, Tahara, Nomura, Kondo | | Important places | Republic of Greater East Asia, Japan, Shiroiwa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, Okishima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan | | Awards and honors | ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2009.04 | Death and Dying, 2009) | | Epigraph | "A student is not a tangerine." - Kinpachi Sakamoto, Third Tear Class B, "But tramps like us, baby we were born to run" - Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run", "It's so hard to love" - Motoharu Sano, "It's so hard to love", "During all those last weeks I spent there, there was a peculiar evil feeling in the air - an atmosphere os suspicion, fear, uncertainty, and veiled hatred. You seemed to spend all your time holding whispered conversations in... (show all) corners of cafes and wondering whether that person at the next table was a police spy. I do not know if I can bring home to you how deeply that action touched me. It sounds a small thing, but it was not. You have got to realize what was the feeling of the time - the horrible atmosphere of suspicion and hatred." - George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia | | Dedication | I dedicate this to everyone I love. Even though it might not be appreciated. | | First words | As the bus entered the prefectural capital of Takamatsu, garden suburbs transformed into city streets of multicolored neon, headlights of oncoming cars, and checkered lights of office buildings. | | Last words | (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And we won't stop till we win. | | Blurbers | King, Stephen |
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Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence in a dystopian world, it is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Forced to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must fight each other for three days until only one "winner" remains. The elimination contest becomes the ultimate in must-see reality television. A Japanese pulp classic available in English for the first time, Battle Royale is a potent allegory of what it means to be young and survive in today's dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old director Kinji Fukusaku.
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It was pretty well written, but didn't do a lot for me. The basic premise of game didn't seem particularly well set up to me nor very real. The reasoning behind the game, the politics, was unreal. The action was OK, fairly realistic in some ways, wrong in others. It came highly recommended by my son who was in his late teens at the time. (