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Title: Really disappointing
Review: Having read the glowing reviews on here, I was really looking forward to this book. I'm guessing the other reviewers were just happy to have a new Prisoner story, since The Prisoner a) only had 17 episodes; and b) ended in the late 60's. Beyond getting a new story about the Prisoner, though, the book is really pretty terrible. In the first few pages, there's a murder that sets up the rest of the book. Unfortunately, that murder is the only thing happens. The remaining hundreds of pages are Number Six and his new galpal 18 walking back and forth, interviewing people, and shooting each other sarcastic one-liners. That's it. The Prisoner was about a lot more than just snappy come-backs and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect something to actually happen in a story after the initial plot point. Overall, it wasn't the worst thing ever written, but if my copy accidentally fell into my cat's litter box, I wouldn't make an effort to retrieve it.
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