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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It's Tanith Lee's writing at it's best! I laughed, I cried, I gasped aloud at all the right places. I've let a few friends borrow my copy, and they were all as enthusiastic about it as I am. This book is definitely for the Science Fiction/ Fantasy fans, and also for the hopeless romantics. I would reccomend this book to anybody!
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Summary: Beaty In It's Best
Review: One of my most favorite books that I go back to read .Time and time again.I read this in highschool and it's still one of those books that is on my favorite top ten list.Tanith Lee is one of my top favorite writers and this book is romantic and sad at the same time.
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Summary: The Silver Metal Lover
Review: I read this book while I was in the hospital recovering from a serious accident. In spite of all the pain, confusion and worry, I was completely entranced and transported, inspired and deeply touched.
This is a wonderfully unique book, really one of a kind, and reading it truly made me feel as if I had been to another world and back in spite of my discomfort. It takes a VERY good author to hold the attention of a person with a broken leg ! There is sadness and cruelty, but also hope, kindness, beauty and a kind of desperate longing to live life, a real life fully in the midst of all the pollution and artificiality of the strange world Ms. Lee has created. And there is love and deep personal transformation sincerely and believably depicted. This book left me absolutely haunted and very hopeful at a difficult time. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Another good book...
Review: I have been reading Tanith Lee since the mid-80's. I love most of her books. This one is no exception. The Silver Metal Lover is a very quick, well written read. The character Jane (Jain) typifies a soul lost in societal expectations. Through Silver, she discovers herself, becoming autonomous. Lee mixes the metaphysical and love in with the plot quite well. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: What is man that thou art mindful of him?
Review: Tanith Lee has written relatively little science fiction (the 4B stories, Electric Forest, short stories) and stories like this make me wish she'd work in this vein more often.
I prefer hard sf on the whole and would normally react to romance much in the manner of Vlad the Impaler confronting a galic draped crucifix, but 'The Silver Metal Lover' I read in one sitting. The narrator is Jane, a 16 year old child of priviledge, who doesn't quite fit into her world. Like many of Lee's outsiders, Jane doesn't so much want to change the world, as to simply get it to leave her alone. . . then she meets Silver.
The Turing test must be considered passed by any AI that, in a teletype dialogue, cannot be distinguished from a human. What then would you make of a mechanism that is at least as alive as any of the people you know, and a good deal saner and nicer than most of them?
The closest sf equivalent that I've read is Alexis Panshin's "Rite of Passage", another tale of an adolescent's coming-of-age.
Tanith Lee is one of my favorite writers, and this story, though different from her normal lines, is finely written, and thoughtful. Apparently a sequel is in the offing.
What is human? If souls exist, who shall restrict what frames they might inhabit?
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Summary: Addicting sci-fi romance
Review: This one's about a rich teenage girl who falls in love with a robot. I really loved this book. It was kind of disturbing at first but before I even noticed I was rooting for those two crazy kids to make it. I was hooked on every word and it flew by fast. The book is pretty much a stand alone but there's suppose to be a sequel coming out. I can't wait for it but in the meantime I'll certainly be reading more Tanith Lee
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Summary: Beautiful.
Review: I have been reading for a long time and I cry over books easily, but I have never cried over a story the way I did when I read this book. When I finished the last line on the last page I wept for a long time afterwards, unwilling to let the story go. This was a beautiful read. I started the book in the morning and was done with it a few hours later because I could not bear to be away from Silver and Jane. This is the story of a girl who holds on tightly to the belief that she is ordinary and a robot with a soul. This is their love story, one that will make you laugh and it will surely make you cry. The themes of Love and Life and Loss will always exist in the world and even with the unique, futuristic setting of this story, your heart will react to this book.
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Summary: A Fabulous, Amazing, and All Around Wonderful Book
Review: First of all, let me just say that this book was one of the most amazing books I have ever read! At the time when I read Silver Metal Lover, it was out of print; my edition is an old ex-library copy bought second hand. I'm so glad that it's available again!
When I began reading this book, I have to admit that I didn't really like it. I'm not usually a sci-fi person, but I had heard such wonderful reviews about it that I wanted to read it anyways. At first, I thought that it was merely a mediocre book because I couldn't really get into the storyline. Little did I know, the first few chapters were merely setting up for what would make a fantastic story. As I got further into the book, I found it harder and harder to put it down. I ended up finishing it during a long car ride because I couldn't bear to leave it behind. The ending is just amazing, I cried my eyes out right there in the car. My sister thought I was nuts.
Tanith Lee's writing is quite good- I especially love how she includes minute details at the beginning that you don't think about twice- but then turn out to be really important later on. The development of her characters is simply splendid- I could really relate to timid Jane who grows into her true self once away from her manipulative mother, Egyptia- the drama-queen, and Clovis- who stumbles upon a truer sense of self and depth of feeling in his attempts to help Jane and Silver. The storyline, characters and writing are all absolutely brilliant! Also, the story is not just some shallow romance- it contains a variety of issues- homelessness,parent child relationships,sexuality, finding your true self, love, environmental issues...the list can go on forever. The best thing about this book is that each person can take his/her own life-changing lesson away from it while still enjoying a fantastic story.
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Summary: hypnotic
Review: This book is about a poor little rich girl who falls in love with an android. No, wait! Come on back. Silver Metal Lover is one of the best things Tanith Lee has ever written. Jane is rich and lives in what should be paradise but her friends are nuts and thanks to her super busy, competitive and secretly fearful mother, Jane doubts herself. Then she gets Silver. He's a machine programmed to please but somewhere along the way, he exceeds his programing and becomes more real and more loving than any human in Jane's life. Thanks to him, she finds out what love is, and who she really is. Powerful stuff.
Of course, love like this can't last and defy anyone--even if you don't like Sci-Fi or romance, not to be moved at the climax of this book. I first read Silver when I was 13 and it still entertains. Kimberley Lindsay Wilson
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Summary: A cute collection peice for people who really love the novel
Review: This is the graphic novel (comic book form) of Tanith Lee's novel The Silver Metal Lover, whitch to me is the greatest book ever writen (and trust me, I've read A LOT of books, although I really don't like anything else by Tanith Lee, its just not the same). The drawings in this interpritation by Trina Robbins are not exquisite, but, its nice piece to own for big Silver fans. She drew Silver in a way that was not at all what I expected him to look like (I expected him to look more like the robot on page 16) and a lot of the story is cut out. I would reccomend to hold off on getting this item until you have read the book by Tanith Lee, because it's not as fufilling and if you read this one first it will just spoil the ending.
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