The Plains of Passage

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Summary: EXECELLENT BOOK
Review: I was slightly dissapointed in the amount of time spent on the scenery, but on the whole this book was execllent! I read the author's acknowlegement at the end of the book and she indicated there were to be six books!?! What's the deal? Are there five or six? Can't wait for the next one. If anyone has any idea when it will be out, please let me know. I am a sailor and the only thing that keeps me sane are my books.

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Summary: yawn
Review: I liked clan of the Cave Bear, ok, so I was 12 when I read it, but I thought it was ok. By the the time this book came around I was soo bored. I don't care what happens to Ayla or any of the other pathetic characters in this overblown Paleolithic Mills and Boon and I won't bother to read any further... It's worse than Melanie Rawn, if you can believe that.

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Summary: Superb!
Review: This book is set during the ice age with pre-historic man. I have grown very fond of the Ayla character and her chosen mate Jondlar. This book takes both Ayla and Jondlar back the way he traveled with his brother and lets him know that she will be accepted. The climax when they finally cross the glacier and both Ayla and her horse Whinney are pregnant makes you want the next book right now.

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Summary: Can't wait for the next one
Review: this is still as catching as the others, only gives more insight on how we must have all come about. The research done here is incredible. I only am getting sad cause it takes so dang long for number 5 to come out. M.E.A., PLEASE hurry...

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Summary: WOW!!!!!
Review: Jean M. Auel must be the best author on the earth. Each time I read her books I cant get enough of them. Each series has kept me on the edge of my seat. I love herr style as well as her subject on the series. I have never wanted to keep a book that i will actually reread over and over again until that is I had the pleasure of reading the Earth Children's Series. now each time i cant find a good book I turn to Jean's writings and am satisfied each time. And each book just leaves me wanting more. I can really get into ayla's life and times as she struggles to survive and succeeds! All i can say is that i hope and pray that mrs. auel continues her writing and her splendid storytelling. yours truelly,

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Summary: Ayla is the original 90s woman.
Review: Ayla is the original 90s woman. She can bring home the mammoth and fry is up in the gourd. I found myself wanting to to remember all the survival techniques. The tale becomes a a little soap opera-y but is definitely worth a read.

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Summary: Plains of Passage
Review: This book kept me on the edge of my seat.I have all of her books and waiting for book five.

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Summary: very detailed, descriptive and interesting
Review: Plaines of Passage is a worthy read and an insight into the struggle and ultimate pleasures of life. Have you ever wanted to be able to take a time mashine and experience the past? Well this is it. The reality of the story-telling is so vivid that one feels to be part of the prehistoric past. Eventhough the Plains of Passage has a rating of 9, I give my favorite book a 10 which is still the Mamoth Hunters with its vast and complex characters. For an overall rating of the whole 4 Earth Children series I have to give a rating of 10++. Best thing to hit the market. Please inform me when book 5 will appear since I am eagerly awaiting this. Jean, great work. Keep it up.

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Summary: Didn't like this as much as 1-3, eagerly awaiting #5
Review: I started reading Jean M. Auel's books in grade school, and loved them. My favorite so far is Mammoth Hunters, because I liked all the characters in it. I have been impatiently waiting for book #5; what a cliffhanger to leave us on in Plains of Passage! I have not heard what is causing the delay, but my own theory is that since much of the research Ms. Auel does is centered in Czechoslovakia, the war must have interrupted it, and perhaps she is having difficulty getting permission to travel into what is now several countries. Has anyone heard when the next book will be out?

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Summary: Too much herbal encyclopedia, not enough actual story
Review: I love this entire series, but The Plains of Passage was too much a description of every minute detail of the plain's flora and fauna, and not enough story. I think it should have been added to the end of the Mammoth hunters instead. It seems like Ms. Auel was contracted to do five books and so she is doing five, even though there is really only enough story to do four. Perhaps her intention was to make us feel the year's worth of Journey like Jondalar and Ayla did. I also wish we could buy these in a volume where the story just continues and we don't have to read blurbs here and there describing what we already know from the previous books. If you're reading them all at once, all in a row, these bits of "information" really interfere with the story's continuity