Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: BORING...

After reading A Simple Plan, I patiently waited for Scott Smith to dazzle us with another example of his exceptional imagination combined with a page-turning, late-into-the-night read. Alas, what a colossal disappointment tortures us in his second ridiculously tedious effort, The Ruins.Touted as highly intelligent (after all, they are post-grad students), not one idiotic character in this wildly absurd contrivance deserves mention. It vaguely occurred to me that the architects of another equally banal production presented through a divergent distinct medium which attracted a vast weekly audience may owe Scott Smith a smidgen of legitimate credit for their innovative or serendipitous ingenuity in the creation of the series, "Lost."Revised: 10/02/2010