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Title: Idiotic!
Review: I can't figure out why so many people (reviewers and readers) have praised "The Ruins." I felt foolish for having invested so much time in reading this piece of junk. To me, this book was deeply silly. I'd been hoping for a good summer thriller. What I got a dopey novel about a bunch of kids terrorized by (spoiler alert) talking flowers. The writing itself isn't bad, and the initial premise of being trapped in a remote location is intriguing. But killer vines that talk? This is like a subpar episode of "The Twilight Zone." It fails as horror, as science fiction, and even as good escapist entertainment. A dud!
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