Please wait... what a great book!
it took such a different turn from the american Ring2 it's uncanny. In a nut shell American version further develops Samara's character and hints that the 'ghost' underwent a transformation and is now haunting Aiden and considers Rachel a mother figure. The movie also gives some much needed background info on Samara and her mother. So apparently this evil water spirit somehow enters the bodies of these children. Children begin to have power of affecting thoughts of other people and what not. Children also somehow realize that they are possessed and they "tell" psychicly their mothers how to exorcise the ghost. Scare the ghost that the child is going to die by drowning and magically the ghost is gone. That's what happened to Samara, except that her mother was stopped by nuns and her adoptive mother (Anna Morgan) didn't do it right thus the evil spirit continue to possess dead Samara. Bla. So then the spirit encounters Aiden and decides to possess him until Rachel successfully exorcises it and then 'magically' transports into tv with the well and closes the lid. Curtain.
NOW for the REAL STORY. which is awesome by the way. In ring Asakawa kinda figures that it's a virus. In Spiral it's confirm. When Samara is raped by the small-pox patient adn then killed by him, somehow the small-pox virus and the evil spirit combine and Samara gives birth to this new kinda virus - Ring. This virus is transmitted to a tape and while the person watches the tape the images in the brain transform and implant themselves into the DNA of the person. Fascinating idea that mind does affect the body. (think stress causes stomach ulchers etc) Not only that the ring evolves because the original tape was modified thus the strand of virus was modified as well (hurray).
I haven't finished it by i'm getting the next book. This is fabulous.
Update: 05/31/2005
marvelous, with some excellent twists in the end. just perfect, so perfect i went to get 3rd and 4th installements. It's not out yet so i hope i don't loose interest till then.
it took such a different turn from the american Ring2 it's uncanny. In a nut shell American version further develops Samara's character and hints that the 'ghost' underwent a transformation and is now haunting Aiden and considers Rachel a mother figure. The movie also gives some much needed background info on Samara and her mother. So apparently this evil water spirit somehow enters the bodies of these children. Children begin to have power of affecting thoughts of other people and what not. Children also somehow realize that they are possessed and they "tell" psychicly their mothers how to exorcise the ghost. Scare the ghost that the child is going to die by drowning and magically the ghost is gone. That's what happened to Samara, except that her mother was stopped by nuns and her adoptive mother (Anna Morgan) didn't do it right thus the evil spirit continue to possess dead Samara. Bla. So then the spirit encounters Aiden and decides to possess him until Rachel successfully exorcises it and then 'magically' transports into tv with the well and closes the lid. Curtain.
NOW for the REAL STORY. which is awesome by the way. In ring Asakawa kinda figures that it's a virus. In Spiral it's confirm. When Samara is raped by the small-pox patient adn then killed by him, somehow the small-pox virus and the evil spirit combine and Samara gives birth to this new kinda virus - Ring. This virus is transmitted to a tape and while the person watches the tape the images in the brain transform and implant themselves into the DNA of the person. Fascinating idea that mind does affect the body. (think stress causes stomach ulchers etc) Not only that the ring evolves because the original tape was modified thus the strand of virus was modified as well (hurray).
I haven't finished it by i'm getting the next book. This is fabulous.
Update: 05/31/2005
marvelous, with some excellent twists in the end. just perfect, so perfect i went to get 3rd and 4th installements. It's not out yet so i hope i don't loose interest till then.