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Title: Not a Thriller
Review: Scott Smith's first book, A Simple Plan, was excellent and kept the reader guessing about what would happen next. It used human nature and temptations to great effect to make the reader believe and relate to how people's actions can lead to such catastrophic consequences.In The Ruins, all of that is missing. The action does not involve the reader. I was actually bored through much of it. The story was absolutely unbelievable and made no sense, and seemed only an effort to shock the reader with gory details.
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