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Title: Watch a video tape
Review: Maybe because I went and read the third novelisation first I messed up, but I found the writing to be OK at its best and brutal at its worst.Twice in only a couple of pages the following type of passage popped up:You are weird, thought Pembleton. "You are weird," Pembleton said to Bayliss.If he went and said it, why waste time writing that he thought it first?Also, dialects and street slang are much more effective on screen than on paper.The plot was interesting and would make a pretty good 1-hour show. But when I'm reading I want something more involved than a 1-hour show, otherwise I'd have plunked myself in front of a television.
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