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  • Stephen King gave this book a great review and since I love Stephen Kings books I was very intrigued. I wasn't disappointed. A very good horror novel. Kept me engrossed. I read it in just over 24 hours.

    

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• ― Stubob72556 said on Jan 18, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

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  • I found the characters uninteresting, the human elements of the plot unbelievable, and the whole thing a waste of time. Yet it seems to have gotten good reviews.

    

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• ― kensington said on Apr 22, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • As we followed the group throughout the story, I stared to care less and less for them. The book seemed to drag on and on. I was excited at first and really got into the story. The middle lost me somewhere. At the end I was listening to hear what happened, only to be disappointed in the end. The boo ... Continue

    As we followed the group throughout the story, I stared to care less and less for them. The book seemed to drag on and on. I was excited at first and really got into the story. The middle lost me somewhere. At the end I was listening to hear what happened, only to be disappointed in the end. The book had such possibility, but just fell short. All in all, an okay book, but I wouldn't bother reading it unless you have some time to kill.

    

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• ― cjspock said on Oct 8, 2007 about the Audio CD edition| Add your feedback

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  • Suprisingly creepy story, I thought the premise would be to odd to pull off but Smith created a very suspensful page turner.

    

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• ― Icedream said on Sep 6, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

Eerie, terrifying, unputdownable—Scott Smith’s first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan (“Simply the best suspense novel of this year—hell, of the 1990s”—Stephen King). The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group—the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig.

This is what happens from the moment the searchers—moving into the wild interior—begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific “other” among them . . .


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