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by Scott Smith
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pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 6 years ago
Just what I needed: a Crichton-esque adventure but more gory to pass a rainy weekend, a justification for me being a homebody, a reason I will never get near a rafflesia plant (just sayin... it freaks me out), characters I could relate to so that reading their thoughts was compelling, but not empath...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
It'd been a while since I read a book that horrified, sickened, and amazed me in equal measure; The Ruins did all those things with ease. I was shocked at just how much I loved this novel. I did not expect it to totally blow me away. The characters are mostly unlikable and infuriating, and I must ad...
My Journey to Become Pretentiously Literate
"The Ruins" is paced well enough to make for an entertaining and chilling weekend read, but its source of conflict is exhaustively hopeless and its cast is too unlikeable to stick with you for long. I stumbled upon "The Ruins" in search of nature-related horror. My favorite genre of horror involves ...
Randolph "Dilda" Carter
Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it 10 years ago
Some people are going to think I rated this too low, but supernatural suspense thrillers are not my game so it loses a star just for that. As its type though, it's pretty damn good. An in depth review would reveal too much to the potential reader, so let's just say once you get started it will be ha...
Hooked on Books
Hooked on Books rated it 10 years ago
I listened to the audiobook and It starts out ok with the group going into the jungle to look for the missing brother. There is a lot of tension and suspense on what they are going to find in the jungle but then it just turns into a bad b rated movie. And what they found in there that was suppose to...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: mexico, boo-scary, tbr-busting-2012, autumn-2012, adventure, mystery-thriller, sci-fi, published-2006, fraudio, library-in-norway, ouch, gorefest Read from September 23 to 24, 2012 hah! look at all those 1* ratings, nonetheless here I go... full tilt.Just when I realised that this re...
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 11 years ago
I just listened to this on unabridged audio. Having seen the movie a few years ago, I was expecting it to be a decent body horror tale of survival and I wasn’t disappointed on those two counts. But I’d be lying if I said I enjoyed the book more than the movie. The movie was suspenseful and to the po...
Rabbit Reads
Rabbit Reads rated it 11 years ago
SPOILERS: This review has MAJOR SPOILERS. If you want to read this book spoiler free, don't read this review.Trigger Warning: This novel does contain bodily functions, that shows their symptoms of dehydration, binge drinking, and starvation. Also there is some major cutting. This book gave me so m...
msleighm books
msleighm books rated it 11 years ago
Completely creepy. A little too much for me.
Dantastic Book Reviews
Dantastic Book Reviews rated it 11 years ago
When four American college students and a German tourist go on a foray into the Mexican jungle, searching for the German's missing brother, they have no idea of the horror they will find themselves entangled in. Will any of them leave the jungle alive?I was in the mood for some horror and received r...
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