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Title: I just lost hours of my life
Review: Having read A Simple Plan I thought I would give The Ruins a try. Sadly- I wish I hadn't. It's like a really bad horror movie you pick up at the store for 5$. Pretty good review by Stephen King- so it has to be decent right? No- it's not. I feel like I have wasted a few hours of my life on this book. It was so bad- yet I couldn't put it down. And, just having finished it- I am so much more dissapointed. The characters are weak, stupid and selfish. It was a battle of wits with one man holding up the other four, and as soon as he died- it was all over. Just to begin again 3 days later. And the vine- is never explained. Some sort of closure regarding the how and why the vine came to be would have been nice. Instead Mr. Smith thinks we'd enjoy it more if we only knew that it just traps 5 more people. Really, do not waste your time or money on this poorly written book. I'm already very sorry that I did (luckily though, I am only borrowing it from the library.)
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