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Loop: Ring Bk. 3 Free FREE LOOP: RING BK. 3 PDF Koji Suzuki | 283 pages | 12 Jun 2008 | Vertical Inc. | 9781932234251 | English | New York, United States Ring (novel series) - Wikipedia The story revolves around a simulated reality, exactly Loop: Ring Bk. 3 same as our own, known as the Loop: created to simulate the emergence and evolution of life. It is in this alternate universe that the events of the previous novels, Ring and Spiral took place. The story revolves around a medical student named Kaoru Futami whose father has contracted a deadly disease called Loop: Ring Bk. 3 Human Cancer MHCa cancer involving both Loop: Ring Bk. 3 and plants. Kaoru knew that his father was involved with a massive supercomputer project named LOOP. The LOOP was a computer simulation of the emergence of life but still unable to simulate such a thing. It is known that everyone who was involved in the LOOP has died of the same cancer. In the course of events, he meets a woman named Reiko and falls in love with her. Kaoru continues his investigations which lead him to a man and the last surviving person involved in the LOOP named Amano. Amano revealed to him that LOOP was a project involving a hundred supercomputers strung together with the aim to recreate life. Amano tells Kaoru of a lab in New Mexico where another scientist might be alive. Kaoru ventures there only to find the scientist dead. He enters the lab and finds a pair of virtual reality goggles and gloves. He tries them and minutes later, he is in the LOOP. In the loop, he sees everything but one event intrigued him, the emergence of the Ring Virus. There in the LOOP, he Loop: Ring Bk. 3 complete details of the events in the previous novels from different angles. After some discussion with Amano, he knows that the LOOP's creator wanted to recreate Ryuji's death and by doing that, he could clone him and insert him into a woman's womb. But what they made was a cloned Ryuji with the Ring Virus in him. When Ryuji was born, the virus escaped and mutated. Desperate to find a cure for MHC, he ventures only to encounter a storm leaving him on the verge of death. Then, he was saved by an old man. After telling the old man the truth, it turned out that Kaoru was Ryuji's clone. Because of that, Kaoru has an exceptional gift, immunity to MHC. In order to know what made Kaoru immune, he had to Loop: Ring Bk. 3 analyzed. An analysis machine was created. The bad side though is that the analyzed object must be molecularized, meaning that Kaoru could die. As a hero, he agreed. He promised that his wife could see him through the VR Goggles and Reiko won't be alone. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Plot The story revolves Loop: Ring Bk. 3 a medical student named Kaoru Futami whose father has contracted a deadly disease called Metastatic Human Cancer MHCa cancer involving Loop: Ring Bk. 3 animals and plants. Categories :. Koji Suzuki. Loop: Bk. 3: Ring by Koji Suzuki (Paperback, ) for sale online | eBay Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Glynne Walley Translator. In this much-awaited conclusion of Loop: Ring Bk. 3 Ring trilogy, everything you thought you knew about the story will have to be put aside. Kaoru Futami, a youth mature beyond his years, must hope to find answers in the deserts of New Mexico and the Loop project, a virtual matrix created by scientists. The fate of more than just his loved ones depends on Kaoru's success. Loop is written as Loop: Ring Bk. 3 stand-alone work though it is best enjoyed by fans of Ring and Spiral. The author's own favorite of the trilogy, this astounding finale is an emotionally resonant tale that scales conceptual heights from an angle all its own. Fiction about fiction has rarely been so gripping. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published October 3rd by Vertical first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what Loop: Ring Bk. 3 friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Loopplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of Loop Ring, 3. I knew eventually I'd have to read Loop to complete this series, but when I Loop: Ring Bk. 3 couldn't find a copy of it anywhere, I opted to Wiki it, and read the basic synopsis. It put me off of reading it, so I figured I'd just set aside until I forgot the finer points of the synopsis. I finally reached that point and got started, and for the first pages, I didn't feel anything at all. While I felt the first books were creepy and scary in some parts, if a bit dry, this book is dry as a bone left I knew eventually I'd have to read Loop to complete this series, but when Loop: Ring Bk. 3 initially couldn't find a copy of it anywhere, I opted to Wiki it, and read the basic synopsis. While I felt the first books were creepy and scary in some parts, if Loop: Ring Bk. 3 bit dry, this book is dry as a bone left in the middle of a desert, and there's nothing I can feel for the story or the characters. Kaoru is a bland character, and his "loving dad," Hideyuki, comes off as creepy, but isn't quite creepy enough to provoke a reaction. His mother Machiko is flat and more a background noise than a functioning character, and his romantic interest, Reiko, is seduced in a clinical description that makes their first time together sound like rape. Following intimate scenes and thoughts are worded in such a way as to negate any stimulating reaction. Passages speak of a woman's "sex organ" and her "fluids" in such a way that all I could do was shake my head at the consistently clinical tone. And then the punchline came, and I got pissed. I want to break down why it's such a massive failure, but I can't without spoilers. All I can Loop: Ring Bk. 3 is, there's no logical reason given for why the ring virus was even possible in the first place. The question is asked, but the answer is "I don't know. The explanation given for how the ring virus became a cancer doesn't make sense, especially with the virus being coded from within a virtual reality simulation that was made to emulate our world exactly. Even when the scientists admit that such a thing as a psychically viral tape couldn't have existed in the virtual reality, they give no explanation of how such an anomaly could have been introduced without an outside source. And the explanation for how the Loop: Ring Bk. 3 got out of the computer and mutated is just as poorly thought out. So there's roughly pages of dry medical lecturing leading up to a lot of shrugging and "I dunno" on the most important aspects of the plot twist. Even if a better explanation had been given, the worst book's offense is that it's never scary, nor even creepy. At least with some bad books I feel something, even if it's just boredom. But I felt nothing for this book until very close Loop: Ring Bk. 3 the end. And the anger I felt was more about how this final book takes everything that was scary about the first two books and chucks them out a window in favor of a "one man saves the world" solution. Loop: Ring Bk. 3 ludicrous, it doesn't stack up even according to the new rules laid out by this book, and not one event is all that memorable because of the bored tone the narrator takes. I can't say there aren't some interesting ideas about life in a virtual reality made to resemble our world and the cyclical nature of the universe. But those ideas are buried as marrow dust inside a dry bone, and I don't feel like it was worth the effort of reading the book to explore those themes. I would much rather have read a bleak final entry that killed off the whole world with the ring virus than this Loop: Ring Bk. 3 of everything that happened in the first two books. In fact, this book ruins the series for me so much, I'm going to have to treat it like the Star Wars prequels and pretend they never existed. Loop: Ring Bk. 3 my altered history, there was a third book where Sadako killed everyone, and the whole world ended. But my version is still a thousand times better than this book. I give Loop two stars, and would only recommend it to readers of the first two books who feel a need to complete the series. May 15, Sarah LeFay rated it really liked it. TL;DR Version: Not the most engaging book in the trilogy and a bit disillusioning, but still definitely worth a read for fans Loop: Ring Bk.
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