Ryū Murakami

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Ziggy

Ryu Murakami

In this thriller from the best-selling Japanese author, a widower stages an open casting call with his filmmaker friend to attract the perfect wife and is taken in by a striking young ballerina with a mysterious past. Original.

Geoffrey Froggatt

I picked up this book because I’ve heard great things about the movie adaptation and wanted to read the original book first. Major content warning for graphic animal abuse and animal death. The suspense and build up wasn’t that strong, but I felt like it may have been literally lost in translation from Japanese to English. The sexual scenes were written crudely and obscenely, but I think that this was intentional. It may feel like nothing significant happens until the end, but everything established previously builds the atmosphere until the sinister reveal. I can see why this story was perfect for a horror movie adaptation. While I feel like there isn’t a way to keep the ending reveal secret from book readers as the movie adaptation is infamous, I do still feel like the story is worth reading for horror fans just for the experience at the end, regardless of how brief it is.

jess larry

too much rambling i was BORED, i guess his writing style's just not for me

High Fidelity

Vrlo lepo napisana. Murakami stil. Puno opisa,osecanja,malo jezivosti. I ubitacni kraj. Preporuka.

Jordan Robinson

Becca Futrell

Content Warnings: Besides the obvious content warnings (blood, gore), I want to mention that there is a graphic animal death scene.

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