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Summary: Piers Anthony Flaunts his Form Novels
Review: Piers Anthony has achieved great success through planting the same characters in slightly different plots. One wonders how his alacrity continues to be rewarded. After I progressed beyond the middle-school age, his works simply garnered infantile flare. They are cute, simply framed, and amusing works, but very lacking in depth and character. The most tiring aspect is the stereotypes which re-emerge in book after book. Ex: Women love horses. I was once a fan, but then I grew up
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Summary: I really did like this book.
Review: Piers Anthony has been my favorite author for several years now, and I continue to recommend him to everyone I meet. Killobyte is one of my favorites because it has adventure, love, and just a touch of danger.
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Summary: Possibly the Best He's ever written!
Review: Piers takes you through an adventure that no one could have thought up, but him. Virtual reality, with a twist. The main charecter is trapped in the game by a lonely computer hacker. With no way out of the game, but a new friend, he could easily starve death. He runs from game to game trying to hide from the hacker. His friend is his only chance. Will he survive? Will his friend make it in time? Read the book!
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Summary: This Book is Great!
Review: This book describes virtual reality the good and the bad and combines life and adventure in cyberspace into on great plot
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Summary: A Fun Romp Through VR
Review: This story is quite engaging and fun, and only one thing keeps it from getting a five: the seeming arbitrariness of the danger that the players of the VR game face. One player goes into diabetic shock while the other has a coincidental pacemaker problem that makes it possible for a game-death to kill him. Other than that difficulty, it is entertaining and a fun story. No real issues of great import are ever discussed in the novel, but it is a book for fun, not for serious contemplation. The three main characters are interesting, though, and they do have a fun story, even if it isn't terribly compelling. Walter is an emotionally scarred ex-policeman who was assaulted by a vicious wife-beater (who should have died, quite frankly), and who is seeking escape in virtual reality. Baal is an emotionally scarred teenage girl who was diagnosed with diabetes and who has a tragedy-fraught romantic life. She wants to find out what dying is like, and thinks that VR is the best way to find out before she finally commits. Their story is interesting and believable, and the action carries it through the parts that don't make as much sense and where characterization fails a bit, but it makes a fun, cohesive whole. It's not a brain-bender by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a very fun read that I recommend. Read it and enjoy it, use it as a way of escaping the world for a little while.
Harkius
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Summary: Read it because you'd love for this to be a reality.
Review: While Killobyte, by Piers Anthony, has more than a few problems with the plotting, nearly everything can be overlooked because of the imagination of the story. I didn't really care much about the characters, but I loved the game in the novel. After reading this book, I was wondering if such a thing would ever be possible. If so, that would certainly be wonderful, as you'd see if you've read the book. Anyway, if you're a fan of Piers Anthony, you'll most likely like this novel, just because he wrote it.
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