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Beautiful Ruins (P.S.)
Beautiful Ruins - P.S.
Author: Jess Walter
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dyin...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780061928178
ISBN-10: 0061928178
Publication Date: 3/26/2013
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 151 ratings
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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junie avatar reviewed Beautiful Ruins (P.S.) on + 630 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Couldn't get into this book. Read until page 80 and gave up! Boring.....
reviewed Beautiful Ruins (P.S.) on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I had trouble getting started with this book. It could not hold my interest, but I decided to complete it and I glad I did. Once all the people and places fell into place, it was a great read and captivated me completely. Did not end at all as I expected.
kiorabree avatar reviewed Beautiful Ruins (P.S.) on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I think that I liked this more than most I've talked to about this book. Yes, most of the characters were self-absorbed and a bit annoying at times but I found it a bit amusing when these characters collided getting in each others' way. "They deserved each other," I told my mother who was also reading this story and was finding their selfishness tiresome.

Though I understand why one might feel indignant toward these annoying people on behave of the few redeeming characters that found themselves hindered by the plethora of 'take, take, take...' personalities. I actually was pleased to see that the more likable characters simply moved on. They took the knocks, said, "to hell with this", and found a way step away on their own terms. It was refreshing.
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reviewed Beautiful Ruins (P.S.) on + 10 more book reviews
I absolutely adored this book. I have no other way of describing it other than to say it was just a lovely read. Enjoyable. Nothing intense. Very vivid imagery. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Outrageously silly and overwritten. The plot had some promise and some comic moments, but it got too ridiculous for me and I quit reading for something I would actually enjoy.
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I tried to like this book, but got lost in it about 2/3s of the way through and though I read the rest, I wasn't enjoying it.


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