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Summary: The Favorite Book of an Avid Reader
Review: Doesn't my email address say it all? I've reread this book more than any other book I've had the pleasure of reading. The characters are alive, first as your friends, but soon they are family. Watch Jane mature and Silver transform. It's amazing! Please read it, you'll love it too!
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Summary: Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover
Review: This going to be a short but sweet report on one of the best book's i have ever read. From the moment you start reading a Tanith Lee book, you know that you are going to be in for a fun and exciting read. Right from the off set, you will find yourself imersed into a strange but compelling land off the future, but there is still the hint that this could happen any time tomorrow, with the technology and information that we are finding all the time. In the first few pages you get to know all the people that will be involved through out the story, but passed every page there is a small twist that becomes huge by the end of the book. All the way through you will be thinking, who is going to betray the affare and what can you do to escape from society. There are so many poinient things that happen in this book and it is only a couple of pages later that you think, my god, why did you do that. Then you come to points in the book when you think that everything is going to be ok, but you will find that the tenshon will never drop from the beginning to the end. Tanith Lee is a fantastic writer with a class of her own. A fantastic book with Romance thrown in. If you are only going to buy one book this year,then this is the one to buy. Have a fantastic read Roman...
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Summary: A book every one should read
Review: this was a book i could in a way relate to. Its so amazeing to see Jane grow and dominate her own life beacue of a new found strength, the strength she found in her silver meatle lover! READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: If you haven't read this book yet, DO IT NOW!!!
Review: I first dicovered Tanith Lee with the book Sabella when I was in 6th grade, many many years ago. I was immediately a devotee for life. The Silver Metal Lover is the only book I've ever reread more than 3 times. I still have my original copy of this book & I'm glad to see it's back in print. This is simply the most incredible & wonderful book I've ever read, but you really do need a whole box of kleenex for this one too. This is simply the most touching book I've ever read: you end up hanging on every word, feeling everything that Jane feels. Yes, you will end up in love with Silver & you will put this book down a changed person. The most moving book I've ever read. EVER. Get a copy, NOW. There is a reason that this book has so many reviews and it's still a five star rating. Good books are like good friends: you never tire of them. This book will be one of your best friends for life. Tanith Lee, like no other writer I've ever read, can make you feel just what it's like to walk in the shoes of her characters. They come completely alive for you. No one else has such a command of the english language- how to make words on a page paint such a vivid picture. Get The Silver Metal Lover. And any other novel by Tanith Lee you can get your hands on. You won't be sorry.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Tanith Lee really, really shines in this novel. I don't think her writing was ever so good as in this book. Her character, Jane (Jain) is exceptionally written, superbly realistic, heartbreakingly wise. Her lover, Silver, at first infuriated me with his cold, non-human perfection -how can a robot love you, and does he really love you if he is programmed to love everyone else just as much?- but as the story grows, Silver skyrockets into a real, true character, as human as they come. This is a beautiful love story, and it's definitely withstood one test; it's being reprinted!!!! Most books, once out of print, stay that way, sadly (the book Fire and Hemlock by D.W.Jones comes quickly to mind). Also, I must say The Silver Metal Lover passed another test; so far, all (twenty-five) reviews already up here are five-stars. Does this ever happen? To anyone who hasn't read the book; Go directly to your nearest bookstore and buy a copy! Then, sit down somewhere comfortable and with access to lots of food and tissues, because you won't be getting back up for a long time, and when you do, you'll be drenched in tears. When I read it the first time, I could NOT put it down, and I had classes the next day (I ended up reading till dawn)! This book truly is timeless, beautiful, heartbreaking. Highest recommendation!
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Summary: Flawless, this book is far above any book i have read!
Review: I finished reading this book 3 days ago and am still lingering within it....absolutely powerful....most definitely believable....i have never read a book twice, but 'the silver metal lover' i will read again and again....perfection!....it has inspired my painting....thankyou Tanith!
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Summary: i laughed, i cried, i cried again
Review: i've had this book 10 years and it still breaks my heart every time i read it. it sounds cheesy to explain to someone--"it's about a girl who falls in love with a robot"--but there's so much more, it's about figuring out who you are and what you want, it's about love and friendship, it's about living your own life. it's a funny, beautiful, tragic, hopeful book, and it has the best moving-in quote ever ever: "it smells...." "there isn't any smell." "yes there is, of people being miserable." "be happy then, and it will go." i can't recommend it enough.
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Summary: Ingenious, touching and completely convincing.
Review: At a self-conscious 14, I was embarrassed borrowing a love story about a girl and a robot from the school library. That this book became one of the very few books to make me ache inside and bring me to the brink of tears even 13 years and 20 rereadings later is a testimony to Tanith Lee's skill as a writer. There are so many wonderful elements in this book: her eerily beautiful future Earth (especially Jane's mother's house in the clouds), the characters (Clovis is glorious), and the sensitive depiction of Jane and how falling in love with Silver changes her life. This book, written in the first person, is so well-written that it sounds convincingly like a sheltered 16 year old girl yet never patronises her emotions. The Silver Metal Lover will always be one of my all time favorite books.
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Summary: Tanith Lee: once again, a flawless wordsmith
Review: Tanith Lee is brilliant. Her particular and uniquely glittering prose gives her a style like almost nothing else. She tells the story as if it simlpy *is*, not asking you to suspend your disbelief for a point here and there, ultimately making something wonderfully fantastic sound completely organic and natural. The slew of 5-star reviews for this book are completely earned (she actually deserves at least 7 or 8, it's quite a bit better and so much more original than the usual "commercial" crap). Do yourself a favor and clear a spot on your shelf of favorite books while you wait for this one to get to your house.
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Summary: Simply amazing
Review: I don't even know where to begin. I stumbled upon this book by chance, and reading the overwhelmingly good reviews, I thought I'd give it a try. I was amazed by this book! Rarely do I find books as well written and touching as this one. I was reading the last parts of this book while listening to a secret garden cd (songs from a secret garden, the best one in my opinion) and I was moved to tears, which I hardly ever spill these days anymore. I love this book! I will recommend it to my friends if they are up to it. My only problem now is trying to find a new book to read, after reading this amazing book. Even other books by Tanith do not seem to be able to stand up to the challenge, based on reader reviews. Any suggestions?
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