Battle Royale Edition #2 by Koushun Takami-- Happy Release Day!!!

In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan—where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller—Battle Royale is a Lord of the Fliesfor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. blow-by-blow fashion. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English.

It's obviously not available for the first time in English. This is the second edition (Released today November 17th) and I totally want it! Hopefully I can get it sometime in the future.

Read my review of Battle Royale, the first version. :)

Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games series is VERY similar to this book except with more blood and gore. If you think you'd like this book, I highly recommend it. The movies suck btw. Just putting that out there.