A review by sarahetcetera
Ring by Kōji Suzuki

4.0

the horror of spending your last days on earth trying to figure out how to live (and kinda failing). Asakawa, an absent father/husband, realizes the importance of family now that he only has one week to live, and proceeds to become an extreme version of himself, seeing his wife/baby for 0 seconds for the rest of the week . even goes into the eye of a typhoon to figure shit out with his old buddy, an (alleged) monster (his words).

this book is not really scary, just sad, horrifying only in its weirdness.

have to watch the movie(s) again, but from what I remember it leans more into the absolutely bananas scary shit instead of the sad stories of The Most Beautiful Sadako and her eerie family.