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The Ruins
- Narrated by: Patrick Wilson
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
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'VEXing'
- By Matthew on 08-07-2016
Publisher's Summary
The Ruins follows two American couples enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group, the young German who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig.
This is what happens from the moment the searchers, moving into the wild interior, begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific "other" among them.
Critic Reviews
"A stunning horror thriller." (Publishers Weekly
"The book of the summer....Smith intends to scare the bejabbers out of you, and succeeds." (Stephen King)
"If you love ABC's Lost and the novels of King and Thomas Harris, you'll love this book." (USA Today)
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-2020
Awesome idea, let down bybad characters
I love the creature in this book, I think its exceptionally original, and I can see why the book has so much praise.
if your a fan if horror like me, you will love the creature.
That however is where the love stops.
The characters in this book are the stupidest bunch of f***tards i think I've ever come across.
I wanted them to die, they where that piss poor.
if you can get past that the book is pretty great.
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- Sachila
- 16-01-2019
loved it
Loved the way that story went. quite sad at the end. it's a thrilling experience listening to this audiobook
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- Anonymous User
- 26-09-2018
Amazing, scary, shocking!
This book was a joy to listen to. The characters were so well written and the horror/gore scenes had me genuinely feeling sick! And the narrator was brilliant too! A must for horror fans
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- Shylee Cross
- 07-01-2022
Slow burn but worth it
10 out of 10 and Patrick Wilson’s performance storyline was awesome bit of a slow burn but totally worth it
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- Daniel Gough
- 18-09-2021
Left me exhausted but not ruined…
And I guess I kinda wanted to be ruined… it was a slow burn and a tense journey. Some people have said that the protagonists were ‘just stupid’ but I thought they just weren’t very proactive. It was a slog of a story with some extremely graphic details that many will find very upsetting. But ultimately, I felt like I was waiting for something big and almost action-packed to occur and it never did. That’s not to say that it wasn’t very effective; I often felt the sun-burned, stale and starving feeling of the characters and the book had a way of leaving me in that place with a longing to fight or run or be frenzied. But the ‘monster’ in this story (if you can call it that) is one that can’t be fought and so encountering this steady journey into not-quite-the-chaos-I-was-looking-for, left me feeling a bit restless when it was all over.
Great performance from the narrator (as is to be expected from Patrick Wilson) and overall, I do recommend it if this sounds like your jam.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-02-2021
Great Concept, Bad Execution
Unlikable characters, many unneccessary descriptions, few "horror" aspects. Patrick couldn't save this story. Quite disappointed.
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- Thomas
- 09-03-2019
Standard horror fiction.
The performance is the best thing about this book. The characters are idiots and i couldn't wait for them all to die.
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- Mike Cowap
- 23-07-2017
Incredibly compulsive dark thriller
This book absolutely hooked me in from the second chapter onwards. A gruelling page turner. I was obsessed with knowing the outcome. Great naturalistic characters in a very original and very tense scenario. An incredible read.
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- Fredrick J.
- 07-03-2017
Singularly Harsh
It cannot be understated how bleak this novel is. I see "user" reviews are generally more negative than industry reviews and I think that's a lot to do with how little hope there is to be found here. This is not a fun read, even less so on a second go. The characters are tragically human, in an impossible situation, made worse by the otherworldly element. There will be characters you outright hate but they are never unrealistic. I know people like each of them. You may be like one or more of them and that may not help you like the character more! But this is a story about being doomed, and if there's another piece of writing as good at that feeling, I haven't read it. Patrick Wilson does ~aight as a narrator but I swear he recorded this with a sinus infection. If you consider yourself brave, please give this one a chance.
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- Danielle
- 21-08-2017
Shh.....
This book was about 8 hours too long. The author seemed to be stretching out every detail beyond capacity to attempt to make the book more memorable or iconic than it could ever hope to be. The conflict between characters was consistently forced and unrealistic and often started with a phrase such as: "He/she knew he/she shouldn't be reacting this way, but...." meaning it didn't even make sense to the author but happened anyway in a failed attempt to raise tension. In addition, as soon as the horror aspects finally kicked in, the author felt compelled to make details of normal activities as disgusting and crude as possible...."the semen squirted/sprayed....his shit came out like squeezing toothpaste from a tube...." seriously??? There's a time and a place for gross detail and bodily functions that are unrelated to plot is not one of them. It was all downhill from there. The author apparently also decided that saying "Shh" to someone was the ONLY way comfort them in any situation from relationship trouble, to facing their mortality with starvation....to being in mind and soul-splitting agony from a terrible injury. One star was generous. This was in the top 10 of the worst books I've heard on audible so far. Patrick Wilson narrated well, though. That's something.
8 people found this helpful
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- LB
- 04-01-2016
Survival Meets Supernatural
Where does The Ruins rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Oh, I can't really rank that. The book holds a special place for me.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Of course. Constant suspense plus the evolution of the antagonist is increasingly terrifying.
Which scene was your favorite?
No specific scene is my favorite. But if I had to choose anything I'd like to point out is that Mathias is a main character unlike the movie's interpretation of the novel. He is my favorite character, a touchstone for sanity.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I listened to this book in two days since I can listen to them at work. So I followed the story very closely. In my opinion it felt too short. But I guess you could only survive on a hilltop for so long.
Any additional comments?
The whole execution of survival meeting supernatural is expertly done. I cannot imagine any other story that could pull off a similar setup without copying from this. Truly original in a dying genre. (Horror)
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- Christopher Wolfe
- 10-12-2006
Brutal
Like many reviewers of this book, this is the first book I've gotten from Audible in 4 years that was bad enough to compell me to write a review.
It could have been a short story, but through repetition and monotony it is a novel.
If I heard one more time the inner dialogue of one of the characters, as they do or say something stupid and unnecessary, describing how they knew they shouldn't but couldn't help themselves....
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- Pamela Harvey
- 03-08-2006
I boringly read this book
I can't believe Stephen King's hearty endorsement of this tome. One of the few "don'ts" in King's book "On Writing" is the use of sloppy adverbs, adverbs that appear in abundance in the The Ruins, like 'wetly", clumsily", "sleepily" and horror of all horrors "sexily". Just lazy writing.
However I thought the anthropormorphic vine and all its parodies of the pathetic human conversations it was in on, was a touch of genius and several times I found myself laughing out loud at its wit. I am not familiar with this genre, so a natural monster with a sense of humor and irony was quite a trip. So I'll give this one a three out of five, just for concept. I think of it every time I water my ivy plants or wisrteria.
I also thought the cold, calculating narration was an added bonus.
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- Marilyn
- 14-10-2006
Strange Indeed
I had high hopes when I started this book, but soon realized that the author had devised such an impossible plot line that there was no way out. The characters were real and well written, but I soon found their problems increasingly difficult to listen to - particularly Eric and Pablo. When I got about halfway through I could see no way out and was correct. A long and very uncomfortable read.
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- Richard A. Bamberg
- 06-10-2006
Turn Back Is RIGHT!!!!
This book is not only boring, but the author couldn't even come up with an out once he got his characters into deep dodo. I listened to the first 8 hours and then scanned the rest. The weakest audible book I've come across in 4 yeaers of listening to audible.com and probably the weakest in nearly 20 years of listening to novels on audio.
Please Stop, Turn Back Before It's Too Late.
You'll be sooorrrryyyyy.
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- Lyssa
- 17-09-2006
waste of a lot of time
This was the worst book I have ever downloaded. It had such promise - got off to a great start. I kept on listening to the very end, hoping that something might happen. No such luck! Don't waste your time.
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- T. Webb
- 29-10-2006
waste
If you want to throw your money away buy this book, otherwise keep looking. The names misleading-I thought the book would be fun from the discription but found the only thing in ruin was my time. Boring, drawn out and inane. I drive truck for a living and listen to alot of books on tape and this was one of the worst I have listened to. No ruined citys or temples, no ghosts demons or even monsters. I wont give away the storyline but buy this at your own risk.
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- Judy
- 17-11-2007
Why, Mr. King?
I purchased this audio book based primarily on the fact that Stephen King recommended it. Until now I have been happy to listen to almost any book while driving, but I'm now at approximately the half-way point and don't think I can keep on listening all the way to the end of this one. I find it particularly annoying that whereas the men portrayed in the book are courageous, inventive and intelligent; the women always think and act like three-year-old children.
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- R. Hunter
- 31-05-2013
Slow to start but becomes a very gripping book
Really enjoyed this book. It starts off a little slow, setting up the setting and the characters but it's still an interesting read. Then when the action starts it had me hooked. Can be quite gory and can be a difficult listen if you're squeamish! Excellent story and a fantastic ending, highly recommended. Competently read but you can tell it takes him a bit of time to get into it.
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- 29-08-2021
Vapid people wait to die and eventually do
Lots of very positive reviews here and from a horror perspective I get why, the horror concepts, the ‘monster’ are great and lead to some horrific situations, but to get to then you have to sift through unlikable or uninteresting characters failing to achieve anything or even progress in anyway.
If the author was trying to do the whole ‘the horror of knowing your fate’ dread thing it didn’t really come across in how his characters behaved.
If the premise interests you I’d just watch the movie instead, which tells you how well and truly this book failed to live up to its premise.
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- Al G
- 09-02-2022
Not terrible, but not good
I took a punt on this one as I'd seen a lot of glowing reviews, but not entirely sure why people like it so much. It wasn't terrible - I did at least manage to finish it - but found it really slow going, and in parts downright boring. The thing that annoyed me the most though was the sheer stupidity and selfishness of the somewhat vacuous characters - there was barely a likable one amongst them. Very little character development there too, they were rather superficial. I found myself rolling my eyes at their behaviour from early on in the story, and didn't take to any of them as the plot progressed, which meant that I didn't really feel that sorry for them during the events that occur. Smith's writing is okay, but nothing special - some of his descriptions of the more gory events are evocative and disturbing but these passages are a little too few and far between, and I found a lot of the writing to be a little too basic and unengaging. The overall plot concept is interesting and the threat faced by the group of characters is, in theory, a really good idea, but unfortunately just not particularly well executed in my opinion. A competent job was done by the narrator.
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- Audiobooks Nest Reviews
- 03-11-2021
Teen Scream Ideal for Big Screens
💛 It’s no surprise this was made into a film. Beautiful teens, holiday horror, it’s made for the screen. It works well in the book too, but this is definitely more movie.
🖤 Overall I really enjoyed this. It’s scary, I thought the characters had some really interesting thoughts and traits. Yes, they were a bit generic, but that helped in simplifying detail for plot. They also worked well as a group. And the story always kept me interested. So far so good.
💙 Things got a bit slow at times as well as repetitive. It could have been an hour shorter and, had it been, it would have been a 4 star for me.
💚 I was sooo unhappy about the ending. Boo.
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🎧 This was a very easy listen. Patrick Wilson has a smooth voice with just an edge of gruffness. It reminded me of James Franco.
🎧 I would have preferred a female voice for the female roles. I could picture the male characters much more clearly than the female.
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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO…
Like a cross between Scream and Brokedown Palace.
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- Catwoman
- 03-08-2021
Loved this book
Although there was a lot of description in the text, it is still brilliant. Patrick Wilson’s narration is also excellent.
Well worth a listen.
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- Evan Maher
- 10-06-2021
Terrible
1 Star
Generic characters. Vague treat that never develops/reveals its ethos. No message to the story. Just a load of meh. That's all the words I can muster describing this book.
If its body horror that brought you here. Skip this and go read The Troop by Nick Cutter (3 stars). Similar deal, but executed a little better.
Sorry Scott Smith
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- Victoria J James
- 27-05-2021
Seemed rather pointless
Felt I ought to finish as I'd paid for it. A waste of my time.
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- Raph
- 22-05-2020
Sadly as entertaining as watching a plant grow.
Slow to get started and didn’t really have any characters I cared for so I just ended up wanting them all to hurry up and be killed off after a while. It was quite tedious predictable and boring to get through but I stuck it out to the end. The narrator did a really good job though with good accents/voices and conveyed appropriate sense of emotion when needed.
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- The Yellow Dart
- 25-09-2019
Entertaining if a little unsatisfying (no spoiler)
It took a while for me to get in to, but this is an entertaining enough listen, the best thing about it is the well written characters, like in all the best horror you start to feel like you know them and therefore it raises the stakes when danger happens. It was well read by actor Patrick Wilson. I don't want to give anything away but there's one aspect of the book I found unsatisfying, but it would be a spoiler to get into that. Basically it's a decent enough horror that'll keep you entertained, but that you'll probably forget about not long after you've finished it, that said, I wasn't sorry I listened to it.
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- RBL
- 09-08-2019
Pretty good listen to pass the time.
I definitely enjoyed The Ruins, the story didn't quite go in the direction I'd imagined, and it was a little slow to start, but it was a good bit of sensational horror.
I did at times find the style of narration a little slow as the author would often repeat events from another character's point of view, which made me a little impatient for the narration to move on.
My main issue was that the characters were all pretty unlikeable, with the exception of one or two, or rather idiotic so I didn't feel I cared much about their survival. As the novel progressed I expected them to reveal hidden depths but they remained shallow and slightly caricature-esque, which was frustrating and left me feeling a bit removed from their situation.
Still, it was an enjoyable listen and I would definitely give it a go if you're a fan of b-type horror movies!
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