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Title: Done Much Better Before
Review: If you're looking for an exciting romp through some Central American ruins, don't buy this book. There aren't any ruins. Anywhere. In fact, this whole book is basically a ripoff of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Seed From the Sepulcher", published in Weird Tales in October 1933. He told the same story in one tenth the number of pages and did it better. I first discovered that story in 1960, and I still get chills when I read it, 45 years later. I'm just really glad I bought "The Ruins" at Costco instead of paying full street value for it.
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