The Ruins

Don't start it till you have time to finish. I ended up staying up all night reading it. Fantastically scary.

I was skeptical until I started reading and couldn't put it down. Very creepy, kept me thinking for days after.

This story doesn't make sense. Watch the movie if you really want to see what all the hype is about but don't waste your time reading the book.

Scott Smith’s wrote one of my favorite crime novels with A Simple Plan that released in 1993. Thirteen years later came his second book, The Ruins which instantly became one of my favorite horror novels. I’ve got my fingers crossed that sometime later this decade he’ll write another one and maybe it......more

Horror is my least favorite genre but real read horror if it's well written and The Ruins is wonderful. I loved it. I read The Simple Plan and loved the prose and the characterization between the two brothers. I thought Simple Plan would be a one and out and then The Ruins came out. I bought because......more

I'll start this review off with a quote from a fellow Goodreads buddy, Edward "That's one of the things I loved about this book. All the characters were either assholes or idiots." And this is the truth. What would happen if a bunch of idiots/assholes vacationed in Cancun and stupidly went into the jun......more

Stephen King has a short story (that I believe may have been entitled "The Raft") in which four college students head out to an old rock quarry. They swim out to a raft in the middle of the lake. As the afternoon progresses, they notice what appears to be a patch of oil skimming the surface of the w......more

***Please indulge me while I float this older review for a horror novel that remains near and dear to my heart. If you are looking for some genuine thrills and chills this Halloween season, this may be the book for you. Happy All Hallow's Read! I just don't get the storm of criticism aimed at Scott......more