Over the weekend I read through two recent horror novels. I didn't like them. One was slick, movie-ready, utterly familiar stuff -- high-concept big-pitch plotting, and then action histrionics. Yawn. ('Though I will almost definitely see it when it's a movie. Read the book as a script treatmen...
Scott Smith is a promising writer who hasn't hit his stride yet. The Ruins is his second book and it is a tight horror tale that kept me up for a couple nights. It involves a group of young co-eds that go off to explore old ruins, and to find one of the traveler's brother, on the Mayan peninsula. (T...
Everyone seems to hate this book. While I agree it was pretty long and kind of a bummer, the villain was an evil plant and it used an annoying ring tone as a weapon! A very intense read, and one I quite enjoyed.
When I noticed that there was a girl named Amy in this story, I knew she'd be the first to die. It seems to be some unwritten literary rule to kill off anyone named Amy first (except in Little Women where you only wished she was the one that died).So, yeah. People die in this book, but I won't tell ...
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