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Summary: I liked the book.
Review: I liked the book so much that I were sorry when I had finished it
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Summary: Deja-Vu?
Review: I love Piers Anthony's work, and this is no exception. However, some parts of this book remind me of his Adept series where he would also cross would could be labled "dimensions". Both books also involve certain concerns about death, love, and lust. Find it at your local library, then go buy something from the Adept series
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Summary: How do you get past the sexism?
Review: I read some of the reviews online before getting this book. Some stated that the book was sexist, I thought that maybe these people were being a bit sensitive. After all, I enjoyed Anthony's Incarcations of Immortality series a great deal. I made it about one third of the way through it. I really couldn't read anymore about perky breasts or bouncing breasts or how the lead fourteen year old character wasn't wearing any panties, especially when all it did was take away from the story. This book was so bad that I cannot even think of buying another Piers Anthony book again.
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Summary: Kul!
Review: I read this and think it is one of the best series Piers has written. In reading Colen's thoughts on suicide I thought of my own darkest moments. U reviewers that think grlls don't have sexual fantasies better think again! just becauz U don't doesn't mean the rest of us don't! AND they can get to be pretty lively, too!
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Summary: this book is a awseome
Review: I read this book as a teenager-(now 21). And still love it to this day. Thats how much of a imprint it left on me. The book dealt with a subject up to a few years ago that you never even heard about. I think that this book helped a lot of teens at that time who going though a rought time like that. And by the way despite the fact she left her life behind to enter a fantasy world many teen- agers have to do this if real life. Not literally of course but to eacape a abusive enviorment. That might have to start a totally new life. IN a new city, or a new way of life entierley. Just ask someone who was raised in a cult. I otherwords while the setting was fantasy many teen experince just that. THis book will make you want to read it again.
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Summary: this book is a awseome
Review: I read this book as a teenager-(now 21). And still love it to this day. Thats how much of a imprint it left on me. The book dealt with a subject up to a few years ago that you never even heard about. I think that this book helped a lot of teens at that time who going though a rought time like that. And by the way despite the fact she left her life behind to enter a fantasy world many teen- agers have to do this if real life. Not literally of course but to eacape a abusive enviorment. That might have to start a totally new life. IN a new city, or a new way of life entierley. Just ask someone who was raised in a cult. I otherwords while the setting was fantasy many teen experince just that. THis book will make you want to read it again.
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Summary: I loved it
Review: I recently read this book, and Oh! I loved it!! My favorite character was Seqiro (me being a horse lover). I love the idea that in some realities animals can obtain their rightful reign over us humans. Colene was described perfectly, and Darius is someone who I'd easily like. This is the first book (in a long time) that I've actually enjoied. Keep up the good work Mr. Anthony.
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Summary: A Darkly Glorious Book That Pulls Few Punches
Review: I sympathize with the reviewer who said that the first few pages of _Virtual Mode_ turned them off of the book. I was given this novel as a gift when I was about eleven or so; I, too, read the opening passage and was disturbed into putting the book away, not touching it again for another year. Yet once I really began to read it, I found myself drawn into a grim reality where even the wonders of magic cannot compensate for the horrors of the human psyche.I adore the protagonists: Colene, the mentally and emotionally twisted young woman whose attitudes and perceptions have been skewed almost beyond recognition; Darius, a man whose rigid sense of honor threatens to strangle his chances of happiness; Seqiro, Prima, and all the rest. Their conflicts and challenges may not be the stuff of epic fantasy, but they're interesting and can give one food for thought. Most moving of all, at least for me, was the exploration of Colene's emotions, history, and motivations. Anthony doesn't whitewash her situation: she's a deeply disturbed individual, and one who has cause to be that way. I must admit, though, that as much as I love this book, I couldn't recommend that children--or possibly adolescents--read it without reservations. The folk who've said that it's full of sex are right; further, there's blood, vulgarity, remembered rape, and a host of other such things. While they add to the power of the story, they might (or might not) be considered inappropriate for younger readers. I doubt my mother would have gotten it for me when she did had she known what it was really about... but then, I didn't have any problems understanding it and certainly wasn't traumatized by it. It's also true that the heroine is awfully young for all of the sexual situations she gets into, and that one could see the portrayal of women as sexist if one really wanted to do so. I personally read and enjoyed the story without worrying about such things, but I think that anyone who says _Virtual Mode_ shows sexism just may have a point. (Anthony *has* begun to disturb me in recent years with his fixation on the sexiness of very, very young women, but that's a subject better reserved for a Xanth review.) If such things offend you, you may wish to give this a skip. Otherwise, I can say with enthusiasm that I feel _Virtual Mode_ to be a wonderful novel, one whose story and characters have stayed with me for years. Readers who enjoyed Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series may find this one especially appealing, as its resemblance to that saga seems much more pronounced than any to the perpetually punny Xanth.
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Summary: A Darkly Glorious Book That Pulls Few Punches
Review: I sympathize with the reviewer who said that the first few pages of _Virtual Mode_ turned them off of the book. I was given this novel as a gift when I was about eleven or so; I, too, read the opening passage and was disturbed into putting the book away, not touching it again for another year. Yet once I really began to read it, I found myself drawn into a grim reality where even the wonders of magic cannot compensate for the horrors of the human psyche. I adore the protagonists: Colene, the mentally and emotionally twisted young woman whose attitudes and perceptions have been skewed almost beyond recognition; Darius, a man whose rigid sense of honor threatens to strangle his chances of happiness; Seqiro, Prima, and all the rest. Their conflicts and challenges may not be the stuff of epic fantasy, but they're interesting and can give one food for thought. Most moving of all, at least for me, was the exploration of Colene's emotions, history, and motivations. Anthony doesn't whitewash her situation: she's a deeply disturbed individual, and one who has cause to be that way. I must admit, though, that as much as I love this book, I couldn't recommend that children--or possibly adolescents--read it without reservations. The folk who've said that it's full of sex are right; further, there's blood, vulgarity, remembered rape, and a host of other such things. While they add to the power of the story, they might (or might not) be considered inappropriate for younger readers. I doubt my mother would have gotten it for me when she did had she known what it was really about... but then, I didn't have any problems understanding it and certainly wasn't traumatized by it. It's also true that the heroine is awfully young for all of the sexual situations she gets into, and that one could see the portrayal of women as sexist if one really wanted to do so. I personally read and enjoyed the story without worrying about such things, but I think that anyone who says _Virtual Mode_ shows sexism just may have a point. (Anthony *has* begun to disturb me in recent years with his fixation on the sexiness of very, very young women, but that's a subject better reserved for a Xanth review.) If such things offend you, you may wish to give this a skip. Otherwise, I can say with enthusiasm that I feel _Virtual Mode_ to be a wonderful novel, one whose story and characters have stayed with me for years. Readers who enjoyed Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series may find this one especially appealing, as its resemblance to that saga seems much more pronounced than any to the perpetually punny Xanth.
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Summary: Colene is cool
Review: I thought that the book was an interesting look at sucide and love. Colene is at first uncaring about her life. She seemed to have a death wish. When she met Darius she wanted to believe him and went to great lengths to retrieve his amulet, but couldn't trust him enough to believe him. When she realized that he was gone and she had lost her only chance at happiness she prepared to kill herself but found she couldn't. When the Virtual mode came and she started on her way she was happy again, but she did not just need Darius she needed Seqirus too. She always kept her suicide self. She was always pushing her relationships almost to the breaking point. I loved this book and its realistic look at emotions, but it would not be complete without the unrealistic touch of magic and the modes
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