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Title: Ten years for this?
Review: I read The Ruins with great anticipation following Stephen King's recommendation and all I can say is what a letdown.The journey of innocents into the heart of darkness echoes Blair Witch meeting Lost with a soupcon of Little Shop of Horrors, with a hill substituting for the shop.I wanted to reach into the text and throttle the characters for being so stupid, which I guess is a necessary precondition for horror. The source of the horror is so silly that it snaps any willing suspension of disbelief.If you want to read a good book about a steady downward spiral, then read Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston,a far better book.
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