Death Note

(This blog is spoiler free) 

I recently started reading a manga series called Death Note. Now before you lose interest and say to yourself "I'm not really a manga fan" I'd appreciate it if you'd please read what I have to say. I consider myself an avid reader, I always have a book on me. I've read great books by Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, James Patterson and many other authors. But Death Note I honestly consider to be one of the greatest stories ever written. It is about:

 "Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects- and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he find the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rough Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light's nole goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against" --From the back of the book.

That summary doesn't do this book series justice. It is a series of 12 manga (graphic novels) books. I am up to volume #10. This book has everything I've ever looked for in a book, A brilliant yet eccentric detective, a super nature device, a man hunt, twists, suspense. Don't worry though, if reading books isn't your thing in Japan it is a TV series as well and you can find it online with subtitles. I'm hoping the TV series will come to America and be dubbed.

 

Note: please do not submit any comments that contains spoiler about this series if you have read it.