Spiral and Loop
So I finished Spiral a couple weeks ago, I think, and Loop last week. They are parts II & III of the Ring trilogy by Koji Suzuki.
Spiral was the better of the two- it starts as Mitsuo Ando is doing an autopsy on good ol' Ryuji Takayama from the first tale, and goes on from his perspective exploring what seems to be a strange new virus relating to the Ring deaths. It was pretty good- a lot of revisiting of the previous story, but it was compelling nonetheless. Good stuff.
Loop is my least favourite of the three books. Our hero this time is a twenty year old named Kaoru who's learning about a huge project his father worked on, which was a huge computer simulated "earth" type thing where a bunch of scientists wanted to see if they created life, if it would evolve the same way as humans do, yada yada. I think this one was supposed to be super shocking, but it wasn't. And I wasn't particularly thrilled with the new sci-fi bent on what was originally just a creepy thriller.
Spiral was the better of the two- it starts as Mitsuo Ando is doing an autopsy on good ol' Ryuji Takayama from the first tale, and goes on from his perspective exploring what seems to be a strange new virus relating to the Ring deaths. It was pretty good- a lot of revisiting of the previous story, but it was compelling nonetheless. Good stuff.
Loop is my least favourite of the three books. Our hero this time is a twenty year old named Kaoru who's learning about a huge project his father worked on, which was a huge computer simulated "earth" type thing where a bunch of scientists wanted to see if they created life, if it would evolve the same way as humans do, yada yada. I think this one was supposed to be super shocking, but it wasn't. And I wasn't particularly thrilled with the new sci-fi bent on what was originally just a creepy thriller.