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Summary: Clan of the Cave Bear
Review: I read this book for the first time more than 10 years ago, and I found it fascinating. I have read it again from cover to cover at least twice since then. It is very well researched, and I couldn't put it down. I wish I knew where Ms. Auel got all the information she did on the herbs and plants that she describes in her book, that the characters (Iza and Ayla) use for medicine. Some of them (like the willow bark) I know for a fact were used, and I wonder if all of the other herbs and plants really work the way she describes... Guess I'll have to check on herb and plant books for that matter! In any case, I also read the other books of the series (The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters and Plains of Passage), and I regularly check to see if Ms. Auel has published another book of this series. Hurry Ms. Auel, there are a lot of us waiting to hear what happened to Ayla.
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Summary: Cave Woman
Review: I had the misfortune to read the other three books of the series before reading clan of the cave bear but that did not detract from the joy of reading this book.Ayla's story is just that,although the author has written about our ancestors one should not take it as a trueism.Ayla's constant fight for survival and her success inspite of Broud's dislike for her,simply because she is diffrent from him helps push the story along.Their battle of their will continues even after her brutily beats and rapes her.Her decision to leave the clan inserch of her own is out of selfpreservation,leaving her son is hard but so necessary.The book is highly intresting and this authors eye for detail is truly awsom.Keep on Mz Auel.There is a rumor that there is another book in the works.Hurry PLEASE.
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Summary: clan of the cave bear
Review: when oh when will jean auel write the next book, we asnxiously await the final chapter
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Summary: A really good book
Review: Although this book kind of falls apart if you try to look at it as a realistic view of how human life was 35,000 years ago, If you view it simply as a fantasy novel it turns into a very good book.The story is not especially original (outsider is adopted into a society, big changes start to occur, etc...), but it is carried off very well. But where the book really stands out is in the detailed, sometimes almost too detailed, picture of the world. The author clearly knows the world, the animals, the plants, the conditions exceptionally well, and only rarely does she really go overboard in the detailing of this information. Although at times the structure is kind of awkward, especially when characters are thinking, it is a fascinating, absorbing and hard-to-put-down book with likeable, understandable characters. I definately recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Clan of the Cave Bear
Review: The first 6 chapters of the book may seem boring to the average reader, but the story gets more appealing to the point you can't put the book down, mostly around the 10th chapter. Though the character names may be confusing and hard to remember, the book does have a name and description for each character either in the front or back of the book. As the story moves through the chapters, you will find yourself more familiar with the characters and who they are. I found the detailed descriptions of how the characters lived with Mother Nature fascinating! The reader will begin to appreciate modern life and fantasize what it must have been like living in the great outdoors. In addition, Jean Auel is not shy about detailing mating rituals and such. All her books will fascinate the history hater as they move through time, teaching the reader the ways of the people while following a love story written with great fire and passion. Steep yourself a cup of home made tea - mix some sprigs of anise, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, fruit peel grinds, and honey and kick back and read her well written visually detailed books.
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Summary: This book was too exciting to put down
Review: When I read this book for the first time, I was just looking for something to do on a long bus ride to one of my Cross Country meets. But since the Earthquake on the first two pages, Auel's lovely description and wonderful storytelling skills has had me hooked. After reading this book, I was incredibly eager to read the next book in the series.
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Summary: Excellent and Realistic
Review: This book is excellent. It is not any ordinary story, and is a fantastic veiw of what might have been. The conflict is created and developed perfectly, and everything that happens is believable. When reading this book, you will laugh and cry at times, and also learn a lot about the age- about neanderthals, the ice age, medicine, toolmaking, and more. Auel displays an amazing theory of why the Neanderthals might have become extinct when the Cro Magnons did not. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to be drawn into a world completely unlike our own and escape the daily schedules to have an experience to remember without even leaving your bed.
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Summary: Clan of the Cave Bear- My favorite book!
Review: I really loved this book. I read it when I was seven and I still remember it. There are some graphic and parts that may not be suitable for smaller children, but it is good nonetheless! I give it five for the great character development, adjectives, and all over good. I loved it and I suggest wholeheartedly that you buy, or rent, or borrow, or do whatever you have to do to read this book- it's great!
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Summary: Interesting fiction, that's it!
Review: I find it incredible to believe that among all these readers who found this book "impossible to put down," not one recognised the racist silliness in the whole Cro-Magnon/Neandertal debate. The futre of mankind rested on Ayla, tall , blonde, blue-eyed and Jolandar, similarly endowed. The virtues of these physical characteristics and ability to adapt to natural surrounding are linked in such a racist fashion, as if being merely being born Cro-Magnon (Western European Nazi ideal) allowed Ayla to bypass natural, cultural and intellectual evolution within her measly 17 years of life. Creb's (and the Neandertals') inability to make these evolutionary jump is linked to their being Neandertal, of low brows and guttural speech. This book promotes a little bit of racial tolerance, disguising that fact that "Flateheads" are also human and okay is the same as a racist Southerner saying "negroes" are human and okay, just less able to think and adapt to be a part of the changing contemporary society. I am an archaeologist and I could go on and on about the stupid scientific inconsistencies presented by Auel in these subversely racist, overtly pro-european works, pandering to Victorian ideas of progress and disdain of 'barbarism."
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Summary: CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
Review: I LOVE ALL OF JEAN M. AUEL'S BOOKS! I READ CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN I WAS ABOUT 13. THE BOOK ITSELF FOSTERED A DEEP LOVE OF PREHISTORIC FICTION IN ME AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR HER NEXT BOOK TO COME OUT
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