Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Ok, let's start by saying that if anyone has not read this book should definitely read it. This is a masterpiece. And  it's from this first work that inspired the Hunger Games trilogy, so ...
Can not miss it. To entice you a little bit more, I tell you that the film based on this novel, is the top ten of Quentin Tarantino ... need I say more? Well, I can also say that it is one of the best-selling books in the history of Japan ...
However, now we enter the details: this novel is a kind of modern and splatter "1984". Hunger Games, which I of course I loved and devoured and which I will discuss in a couple of posts, is the Disney version of Battle Royal, so if you have trouble reading of strong scenes, this is NOT the book for you. For everyone else, go immediately to buy it!
We are in the Republic of Greater Asia, at a time not well defined. In this reality completely totalitarian, takes place each year on "program". A third class average is taken and transported to sneak up on a desert island, and the purpose of the program, which is nothing more than a sadistic game, is to stage a fight to the death, where the 42 participants (21 males and 21 females) will kill one with the other, until obtaining a single winner and survived.
The pace of this novel is relentless, and the fact that each chapter begins with the accounts of the survivors makes it even worse. The fact that the narrator changes, making speak on "players" that they die is exhausting. In the description is left unturned, every gruesome detail is present and there are no tricks of any kind, the kids die, and not in a "polite", indeed.
The result, in my opinion, is a novel super addictive, making you twist your guts and leaves you drained, disgusted and perplexed at the same time with the mechanism crazy but not so far away from the reality of men. By gladiators to the "players of the Program", there is not much difference, apart from the age ...
This is a book that comes in, and does not go out, as only the best stories can do.

VOTE: 10 - is a bastion of genere
SUITABLE FOR WHO: You can not be too impressed. Do not expect romance. This book is about surviving and how to survive.
THE AUTHOR: Koushun Takami. Unfortunately it seems that Battle Royale is to be his only novel ....
READ ALSO: All the work of Bret Easton Ellis, in particular "American Psycho" and "Glamorama." Although the plots are completely different, these two authors share the same style "raw" in the telling of evil and his "madness". In addition, as mentioned above, the Hunger Games trilogy, it seems to take inspiration from this novel, smoothing the corners too sharp, and bringing the story to a level even "romantic", that in Battle Royale is virtually nonexistent.