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Summary: Nice try, Piers, but no cigar.
Review: This book was one of the most perverted books I have ever read!! A 14-year-old girl, barely starting high school, falling in love with a man that's TWICE her age!! And that's not all. Anthony gives vivid descriptions about Colene's "youthful" body, and too often. What are women?? Well, not sex subjects!! And it's not every day a girl would let some adult touch her body freely (as Colene did with Darius during their first night together), or drops out of high school to pursue a thought in her mind!! Or writes to an imaginary horse in her Journal (as she calls it). AND most girls are actually SEMI-MODEST, instead of willing to perform a striptease in front of four adult men, as Colene did when she was trying to get Darius' key. The girl's suicidal nature is lifelike, but the rest of the book.. Ugh!! Mr. Anthony goes even farther to describe the other women in the story, as if we of the female origin were nothing more than, quote "a walking vagina waiting to be unwrapped and plunged". From prior experience, Piers has a very sexist attitude about women in general. In his Xanth novels, Demoness Metria is more or less a femme fatale who does kinky stuff. In the Apprentice Adept series, the Red Adept is portrayed as a "healthy, well-formed" adult. And in the "Tarot" series, Amaranth is described as "voluptuous" and a cheap strip-tease who liked to show off. They are all women who are degraded by the descriptions Mr. Anthony has given them. Yet, he worsens the prejudice by displaying the males as good, noble people with wonderful ideas, intense lusts, and the ability to withstand the "tainted" seduction of the women
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Summary: amazing!
Review: This is an amazing series. It is realistic, even though it's subject is an unbelievable tale of traveling through worlds and parallel universes. Piers Anthony writes this in a totally different style from the Xanth series. Colene's friendship with Sequiro and her love of Darius gives her the two releases that I've always wished I had. It is really an amazing book.
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Summary: This book picked my brain
Review: This was a great book becuase I felt like Colene many times. We shared the same views. Colene was a very real girl despite the fanasty backdrop the book was set in. I liked the idea of being able to get away and follow your dreams.
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Summary: A great book, Misunderstood by......
Review: Upon reading many of the review for this book, I have concluded that there are some people in this world that can not look past some of the inappropriate parts in this book. They stop at these parts and proceed to critize it as if it were to be an object of ridicule. This book is not an object of ridicule. The first book of the Mode series, it is an ingenious introduction to a great series. Piers Anthony provides an appealing combination of fantasy and realism. Colene, as a character, will definitely attract readers who can relate to her experiances.
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Summary: An awesone book and series!!!
Review: Virtual Mode is one of those novels that really blow my head away. Colene is one of the most realistic characters that I have ever encountered in my life. Her pain and suffering are something that I can relate very well. For those that think that the things that happen to her doesn't happen in real life, well I have bad news for you, they do happen too often for my taste. Rape, depression, suicide, dyfuntional families, etc... are part of the reality of many people right now. Horrible to hear but truth, but what makes Virtual and its main character so humane and wonderful is her spirit to fight in adversity, even though she still is depressed and want to die. Also the world of the Virtual Mode is amazing!! Piers really create a world full of multitude of realities. I can't wait for DoOon Mode, the last novel, to know what will happen to Colene and Darius!! I really want them happy!! I think this is the best series that Piers has written. And it is not a surprise considering that most of the inspiration of Colene come from real life suicidal teenage girls, asking him for help. So if you haven't started reading this series, do so!! You will never regretted it.
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Summary: Virtual Mode shows teenage views of suicide.
Review: Virtual Mode talks of Orlene, a freshman girl contemplating over suicide because of the boredom, monotony, and past problems of her life. This book, and the other books in this series are an awesome portrayal of her thoughts about suicide. One can see exactly how she is feeling, the swings between happiness and depression, the determination in her mind to win love. Perhaps this is a great novel of how love conquers all, including suicide
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Summary: A Traumatic but Beautiful Beginning
Review: When I first started reading this book I was fascinated by Colenes suicidal compulsions; death was so beautiful to her, and to her the blood flowing from her wrists was so poetic. I could feel things with her, when she got tangled in the whirl of Darius' world, and her travels through the dimensions, and the relationship with her telepathic horse Sequiro. The story began to weave together beautifully.
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Summary: A Traumatic but Beautiful Beginning
Review: When I first started reading this book I was fascinated by Colenes suicidal compulsions; death was so beautiful to her, and to her the blood flowing from her wrists was so poetic. I could feel things with her, when she got tangled in the whirl of Darius' world, and her travels through the dimensions, and the relationship with her telepathic horse Sequiro. The story began to weave together beautifully.
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Summary: When is the FOURTH BOOK
Review: When I started these books I was ready for something new, and he did it. I was not disapointed at all! I started the first one on Monday and I finished the third on Friday. All I want to know is when is the FOURTH BOOK? Mr. Anthony you can't leave me hanging like this PLEASE!! You said that that was not the end.
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