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Summary: An inspiring book of 1 woman's quest for survival.
Review: In this book, Ayla stays in a valley alone, and raises a horse and a cave lion, before she encounters a fellow human. After learning how to speak she leaves with him for another journey, which continues in THE MAMMOUTH HUNTERS.
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Summary: Loved the series---can't wait for the fifth book to come out
Review: I really enjoyed the way Ms. Auel discribed everything in this series but at times I found she rambled on too much about the discriptions of some of the terrain. But all in all I would recommend this to anyone for good reading. I wish her fifth book would come out soon.
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Summary: 5 stars are not enough
Review: This book, among all the books I have ever read, is my favorite. I have never really picked a role model, but if I were to do so, Ayla would be she -- despite that she's fictional. Clan of the Cave Bear was a wonderful, rich first work, a novel about a child becoming a woman among people who were not her own. Valley of Horses is the next step in her life: learning to be a woman and learning about her own people.This book moved me to tears and to laughter. When Ayla felt alone, helpless, confused or angry, I felt it, too. When she felt happy, powerful or curious, I felt that as well. This is not a book for anyone under 15 or so. The depictions of sex are too graphic. But sex is a part of life, and if you're going to read about it, it might as well be good, loving sex. But if sex offends you, or you think it "cheapens" a book, skip those parts. But read the book. This is not a book to be missed.
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Summary: Great!!! Love it!!! Don't pass this up!!!
Review: I loved all 4 of these books!!! I have been waiting 12 years for the 5th book to come out and have in the mean-time reread them over and over, collected first addition copies and created an online discussion group to talk about them, the Summer Meetings that other fans are starting in different regions, and other book related aspects of life, including cooking like the characters in the books!!! I recomend for EVERYONE to read them, expesially young women! I read them at the age of 13 and Ayla gives a great example of what a strong independant woman is!!
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Summary: Move over primitive cave man, a woman is taking over.
Review: I liked the fact that a woman does all the thinking in this book. Just because men were dominent in this time period doesn't mean women didn't know how to think! I think she is a wonderful role model for today's woman who wants to make it big in this male dominant world.
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Summary: My favorite book of the series
Review: This book was the first of the series that I read and I loved it. Since, I have read the other 3, but VOH remains my favorite, followed by the Mammoth Hunters. I especially liked it because of Ayla's animals. As to the complaints some people made regarding the fact that Ayla invents something new every other minute, I have to admit that that struck me as slightly funny, too, but I thought that this book is not a documentary of prehistoric life as it really was but as it may have been, and by letting Ayla invent things it only wants to demonstrate how by sheer coincidence things may have been invented back then. I think the point is not the fact that one person invents everything, but that inventions were made coincidentally. As to the sex part, yes, there IS a lot of it, and very detailed, but I can't say that that's all there is. The second book is about Ayla meeting her mate, so what's wrong with sex? As to what someone said about 3 chapters of boat-building, I sometimes found the very detailed descriptions of landscapes or flint-knapping or whatever a bit long, but on the other hand they gave a very good insight into the practices of those days. I have read another book about prehistoric life, and that book lacks all that detailed description, which I found disappointing, because one does not learn a thing about HOW people did things, only THAT they did them. Altogether I can only recommend this book and the rest of the series and I can't wait for the next novel to come.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I think this book was good. I haven't read the first one (The Clan of the Cave Bears) but I have read the other books. Unfortunately I have to admit that they don't better. But I liked The Valley of Horses very much specially the survivel part when Ayla lived alone in the Valley with her animals, because it was so exiting.
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Summary: What an amazing adeventure!
Review: What a wonderful story, I have finished reading all of the Earth's Children books. I began reading them only three years ago and now I have nothing to read, no series or book compares. I can't wait for the next one!
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Summary: Absolutely captivating - it actually puts you THERE....
Review: I have read all of the Earth's Children novels and each one is more captivating than the next. Ms. Auel is easily one of my favorite authors. Her books bring a new appreciation for the way we live today - yet a yearning for living the way Ayla and Jondalar did so many years ago....
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Summary: IT ENDED??? SAY IT AIN'T SO!
Review: WAARNING: If you begin reading this book, you will be held hostage to the trials and tribulations of Ayla as she struggles to survive after being cast out of her Clan. Should you put this book down, you will immmediately regret it, and find any exuse to pick it up again. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! Auel is too talented for her own good, for once you start this series, you will only find yourself hungering for more.
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