Im Buch bleibt es bei vagen Andeutungen.
I wasn’t just bored so much as I just felt a passive sort of despair: when I realized I was a hundred pages in and couldn’t face the next two-hundred.
The writing style is bland, very heavy on exposition, short on description, and even more bereft of dialog- good dialog is what makes characters real.
One of the students dives into the lake for a post-coital swim and is mysteriously and grotesquely devoured by the oil patch, his skin pretty much being stripped right from its bones.
"Jeff glanced up from the map.
This is horror at its finest. He forgave him for this, yet he still couldn't accept it. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2014
He had a gravity to him: he was calm, always calm. Performance
Totally invested in their wellbeing.
It just starts telling you random bits of things, spitting them at you and in random order. There is a lot I did not like about this book, most of it was already stated by others: the incredibly flat characters, the lack of a real story, the characters failing of coming up with a plan, the lack of explanation etc..
They'd adopted Spanish names, though, which they seemed to find very amusing.
Histoire Unfortunately, the gifted aren't what they appear to be and the group finds themselves in trouble once again.
Take it from me, the movie is trash compared to this. A big factor in my enjoyment of this book was the characters. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
he asked.Mathias shrugged, waved at the note. Mathias rushed him, knocking him over.
Mathias's map had an X drawn somewhere vaguely west of Cobá.
THE BOOK SPOILER.com: SPOILER ARCHIVE: THE RUINS Scott Smith.
Afficher plus Both are great!
I think some of the poor reviews here have been spawned by fans of "A Simple Plan" (or thrillers like A Simple Plan) gnashing their teeth because "The Ruins" turned out to be not what they expected. She hadn't really read the book; she'd only looked at the pictures.
Imagining being in a forest is something that is easy for me to do because I grew up in an island in the Pacific when the vegetations in our coconut plantations were still thick and I used to walk in the rice/corn fields enjoying the morning mists or help my father in clearing up weeds and vines in between the mature coconut trees.
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Even at the end, when Mathias was literally pulling bloody clumps of vine out of him, I still wasn't really convinced it was there, or that it was real.
How scary could plants be? OVERVIEW.
Horror? She remembered a ruined hacienda on the Tizimín page, a street lined with whitewashed buildings for Valladolid, a gigantic stone face buried in vines for Cobá.
On the other hand, sitting around and drinking tequila is criminally irresponsible on the part of Amy, Eric and Stacy.
Don Quixote was the one Stacy made out with.
Like eating a bag of crisps, if you will.
This is my Halloween read for this year and it is very apt because it is really, really scary.