The Prisoner: A Day in the Life
by Jean Marie Stine
The Prisoner (Ace novel #3), The Prisoner Novelisations (3)
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Every day in The Village is just like every other. There's the beach and the theatre, and the tennis court . . . and the mysterious underground chamber where every move is watched. In this sinister wonderland for those who know too much ever to know freedom, the average day is just a trip to the grocer's, a conversation with a Number . . . and a chance to escape. . . .Tags
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Well-written, even if a little heavy on unattributed dialogue. Succeeded in making me very uncomfortable, thinking about what it would be like to be in his shoes, not every knowing whether he could trust what he thought was reality. Made me think of "The Matrix," as well, because of this problem in distinguishing reality from everything else.
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Perhaps I am easily pleased, but I rather enjoyed this. The Prisoner is made a prisoner even within the confined circumstances of The Village; he flirts with Number 7, plays chess with the Admiral, assassinates a few people in London and life goes back to normal. The level of mind-bending is about average for one of the TV episodes. I would find it difficult to describe anything that actually happened in the story, but I enjoyed reading it.
Perhaps I am easily pleased, but I rather enjoyed this. The Prisoner is made a prisoner even within the confined circumstances of The Village; he flirts with Number 7, plays chess with the Admiral, assassinates a few people in London and life goes back to normal. The level of mind-bending is about average for one of the TV episodes. I would find it difficult to describe anything that actually happened in the story, but I enjoyed reading it.
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- Canonical title
- The Prisoner: A Day in the Life
- Original publication date
- 1970
- People/Characters
- Number Six (ZM73 / John Drake); Number Two; Number 105 (rose gardener); Number 87 (grocer); Number 237 (fishing contestant); Number 157 (tobacconist) (show all 20); Number 32; Number 24 (film student); Number 569 (student film director); Number 127 (waitress); The Admiral (Number 307); Number Seven (Sandra Champaign); Number 87 (butcher); Number 215 (tannoy announcer); Colonel Schjeldahl; Sancho (the butler); Janet Portland; Sir John Wilkinson, Bart.; Field Marshal; Sir Charles Portland
- Important places
- The Village; Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales, UK; London, England, UK; Kingsdown, Kent, England, UK
- First words
- Music pounds out of the car's sisters with a steady insistent rhythm and the singer's voice sets up an eerie summons, high and compelling.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The noble soul has reference for itself -.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil - Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 823.08762
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.08762 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Science fiction
- LCC
- PS3569 .T5548 .P85 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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