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Summary: I Felt Like a Child...
Review: How many times do I have to be told about the reactions people have when introduced to Whinney, Racer, or Wolf? How many times do I need to hear about how perfect Ayla is? I found myself skimming pages to get to the meat of the story. Very tedious and very disappointing. It troubled me to write this review. I was so looking forward to reading the latest in The Earth's Children Series as I enjoyed the previous novels. I am sad to say I don't know if I will read the next one. The entire plot could have been written in just a few chapters.
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Summary: Intro to book 6
Review: ...I feel that the story is very slow in developing in this book. The book doesn't get much into the spirit world, travel, or details of landscape. My hopeful interpretation is that book five is an introduction to book six, and that book six will bring the adventure back. Let's hope we won't have to wait more than a year for book six.
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Summary: Not Great, but not terrible either
Review: Great research, thin plot. It seems like Mrs. Auel is trying to set-up for book six. The entire ending was very rushed. Where Plains of Passage was wordy with landscape description, this was wordy with 'The Mother's Song' and people repeating each other's formal names over and over and over. Book One remains my favorite. At least we shouldn't have to wait so long for book six since Mrs. Auel is getting older.
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Summary: Mixed Review Revisted
Review: Ok everyone, I written a review back on the 14th of May. And have looked over all the other reviews. For those of us who are HIGHLY disappointed~ I feel we need to write our "Beloved" Ms. Auel and hopefully she will get the point. For I truely hope she is not glossing over all this just to finish the series and end it.
She has worked so hard on the previous books .. is she suffering from writers block ?!
Perhaps she needs to make the next and final book a readers choice~ a interactive one. Where we can choose which way we want to go with the story. You know those book types, we used to read them as a child. Choose # 4 if you want the hero to enter the house. If not choose # 5 to go on to the bay.
I am just so chessed off, that we waited so long for a book that now can be use as a door stop, a weapon and /or toliet paper (depending on one's up bringing and plumbing). Either way folks we have taken it up the windward channel~ for Ms. Auel did not live up to expectations and/or her editors need hooked on phonics or they suffer from obessive compulsive disorders. Where they have to repeat everything about a hundred times.
Pehaps we need to have a EARTH CHILDREN's support group.
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Summary: Totally worth the wait!!!
Review: Granted, I didn't have to wait 12 years like most fans, cause I only discovered the books 2 weeks before the new one came out. And I'm glad! Cause after finishing the 4th book I was so caught up in Ayla's world that with the 5th book, it was just a continuation. The only downside to "The Shelters of Stone" is that there's so much geographical descriptions, but that's Jean Auel's signature and it's just my impatience speaking here. The book is absolutely awesome, and I can't wait for the next one and I hope it doesn't take 12 years! Ayla is such a strong woman..
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Summary: SO DISAPPOINTED!
Review: I could not wait for the new book! I was at the store when they opened on April 30 so I could get it right away after all the years I have been waiting. I really did think the next page would get better, but I suddenly realized the book was 3/4 over and I was just getting to the good stuff, if you could call it that. I have learned to skim pages very quickly when Jean Auel is going over, for the 4th time, the landscape etc... of their surroundings. Where is the tension, suspense, confrontation and all the other wonderful attributes of the other novels?
SOS only seems to flaunt the wonderful things Ayla does. She can do no wrong, and she is just too perfect in this one. BORING! I think Jondalar has lost alot of his sexiness in this one. He seems to be like a lost puppy dog following Ayla around all the time. This is not the way I feel his character should be. He is a very sensitive and strong man. Where did he go? I think Jean Auel should release the 6th book very soon if it is better than this one. She owes her readers who have waited so long for SOS and were so very disappointed. I think after all this time, we deserve a true Earth Children novel.
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Summary: If I had not bought it I might not have...
Review: I should have read the book first. I never listen to critics or book reviewers, and I should have. The book was O.K. That is a very mild term for a book that, having taken 12 years to write, should have been a WOW. I have been a faithful reader of the Series, and I honestly expected The Shelters of Stone to have just as much "punch" as the prior books...it looks like Jean Auel got bored with this series and, realizing she has one more to do, repeated herself ad nauseum. I will read her final book in the series, but I won't buy it unless it is at least fifty times better than Shelters of Stone.
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Summary: I Loved It!!
Review: Sandra Burr has done a wonderful job in reading this series and I very highly recommend the CD version of the entire series the remake are wonderful!! Wish it didn't take so long in coming but I loved it!!! I best liked the detail she gave in the everyday
lives of the Zelandonii, there reaction to the animals and the progress in the knowlege of how the
anaimals could be usful. I think Auel did an excellent job in developing the storyline - how Ayla
intergrating with the Zelandonii and also how the Zelandonii are coming to appreciate Ayla unique
qualities. I so much look forward to the next book and hope it doesn't take too long. I hope Auel
writes several more books to this series - going through Ayla entire lifespan and that of her children's
- she give such great insight to what life would be like in the Pleistocene - the attention to detail and
accuracy is the series greatest strenght - perhaps one day the series will be turned into a movie
(theather or for tv) with accuracy this time to what Auel has written.
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Summary: 12 years, wow..........
Review: When I was in 7th grade my mom made me read Clan and Valley then forbade me to read Mammoth and Plains, I did anyways. I GREW up with Ayla, wishing I could be her friend when I was little. I waited 12 years for this!? You'd think that with 12 years Jean could do something better. I've been waiting all this time for the baby, then she comes and it doesn't seem to be a big deal like Durc was. No drama. I did like the last three or so pages, and I did like the last paragraph or two, I think they were more like the other books. And I will read the sixth, but if I have to wait another 12 years to do it, I am probably not going to enjoy it.
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Summary: Fresh Voices Needed!
Review: After a decade, both Jean Auel and Robert Waller produced follow-ups to previous hits. I read both and wished I had not wasted my time nor money. Shelters of Stone and A Thousand Country Roads both lacked inspiration and originality. I will not turn instead to fresh voices in literature. Try "Lost Nation" by Jeffrey Lent or "Shade of the Maple" by Kirk Martin for refreshing, lyrical prose that is fresh and compelling.
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