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Title: Yikes! The Shrike!
Review: After slogging through six or seven-hundred pages of a story with characters I didn't feel much sympathy for, I expected some kind of payoff and didn't get any. Just the promise of a six or seven-hundred page sequel with no promise of Shrike-like closure. Maybe I shouldn't judge the story from the standpoint of what I wanted out of it. But you know what? Life, as any Shrike will tell you, is way too short, my brothers and sisters. Leave Hyperion where it orbits - in the dusty recess at remote edge of the universe. You'll save a couple of light years of your time.
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