This is the book that started the blockbuster hit The Ring. I found this book at my libraries free pile, saw it and brought it home. I just finished it today and wanted to share this with my fellow bookcrossers.

Here is the amazon review:
A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.

Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.

The success of Koji Suzuki's novel the Ring has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.

If anyone is interested in this book, and after my son reads it, please PM me only. You have seven days after reading the book to pass it on to the next person or await your fate!! >:)