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Summary: It was fascinating and captivating! I couldn't put them down
Review: I also found myself being transported to another world. Have since found how accurate they were in describing history. Not only good reading but a history lesson as well. I have read all of her books and am anxiously awaiting the 5th book of the series. I have to find out how the story ends for Ayla.
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Summary: Super!
Review: A really great book!! I can't wait to read the rest. Mrs. Auel did a wonderful job. I got into it so much I almost started talking with hand symbols!! It's like I was right there with Ayla! It takes a great author and a great book to do that. I give it FIVE STARS!!!
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Summary: I was hooked after the very first page!
Review: Ms. Auel has done an excellent job of researching and telling this story. I have to keep reminding myself that it is a fictional story. This is a facinating story about life during the Ice Age and one girls struggles to become a respected woman. I have also read the other three books in the Earth Children's series. As I neared the end of one book, I'd rush to the store to purchase the next. But on the fourth book (I new the fifth was not out yet) instead of rushing through to the end, I put myself on a reading diet and would only allow myself a few pages a day....I didn't want it to end. Not only has this book increased my knowledge of pre-historic life, it has also given me an interest in herbs. It was great and I recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: A beautiful piece of written work!!
Review: An excellent read! I feel the characters are portrayed in depth. The character's interactions with each other were excellently planned and displayed. The scenery is beautifully described and promotes images in the reader's mind. I felt that it was definitely the best of the Earth's Children series. Jean Auel is a truly gifted author with a mind for detail. A well thought out description of Earth's past.
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Summary: I really enjoy the series.
Review: Ever since I read Clan of the Cave bear and its sequel The Valley of Horses, I have been looking for books just like it. If i were you, i would rush to the bookstore or the library and get it. Don't wait. Its a good book.
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Summary: Enthralling. You'll hope it will last forever.
Review: 35,000 B.C.A five-year-old Cro-Magnon girl loses her family in an earthquake and is found, near death, after an attack by a cave lion, by a group of Neanderthals. They are the Clan of the Cave Bear. They adopt her and, when she recovers, she tries to become one of the Clan. This series, chronicling the life of Ayla, as the Clan name her, unfolds as, firstly, she grows into adulthood in a society utterly different from the one into which she was born, and then secondly, as a fully mature and much sought after woman, she has to re-adapt to the culture to which she was almost certainly born but has blocked from her memory as a result of the tragedy, loss and trauma she endured as a child. This series really does has everything; joy, sorrrow, hope, despair, humor, imagination and a solid chunk of concrete facts. It is essentially a work of fiction, but Auel has done an incredible amount of research and, as a result, the work is replete with details on the way life could have been three hundred and fifty centuries ago. Although set in a prehistoric world of incredible beauty, sadly now lost to us for all time, it shows us that we are indistinguishable from our ancestors of the last Ice Age, how they had exactly the same basic needs, desires and ambitions that we have now. The characters, and the cultures, in this series are arguably the most highly developed you will find in any books, anywhere. With them we feel the highs and the lows, we share their hopes and their fears, and we cannot help needing to discover the outcome of every single decision they make, no matter how crucial or trivial they may appear, because all of them are vital to the story. We feel as though they are our best friends and that they confide in us as such as they think without speaking aloud to other people in the story. We get to know them as well as we know ourselves and plan what we would do in the same situations. Aside from the obvious entertainment and joy the entire series will provide for all who read it, or listen to it, it teaches us many lessons which are relevant to this very day, particularly about relationships with and respect for people, not only on personal and individual levels, but also on social levels, and within a community. On the surface it may appear to have been written as a throwaway paperback for the consumption of twentysomething women lying in the sun to top up their tan, (sadly it is often shelved as such in bookshops), but, be assured, it most definitely is not. It has been reprinted many times in many countries around the world, and in many foreign languages. This is a clear sign of its widespread and enduring quality and appeal, although I would suggest that it would definitely not be suitable for anybody under the age of twelve and even then I would recommend waiting to about sixteen to fully appreciate the meaning of the book and withstand the impact it will make. I believe that a lot of young people, both male and female, would benefit greatly by reading it, and taking it seriously. I first read the Clan of the Cave Bear when I was seventeen, when I bought a copy that my local library was selling off for a few pennies. I read through it in two or three sittings; I was so engrossed, the pages seemed to turn on their own. When finished I immediately loaned the other three books in the series. I now own all the books and all the cassettes, and in the last three years I must have read or heard each of the (to date) four books at least thirty times. Like millions of others, I eagerly await the fifth volume, and so will you. Thirty-five thousand years ago people just like Ayla, and everybody she encountered during her life and journeys, really were alive and, hopefully, in us they shall live on.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read!
Review: This is a not to be missed. Auel tells this story in a way that pulls you in and leaves you wanting more. I can not wait to read the next in the series.
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Summary: A very great book.
Review: I think that "The Clan of the Cave Bear" is a really wonderful book. The plot and character development is all great. I agree though that the area descriptions and stuff about plant remedies can go on WAY to long. Other than that though, it's great.
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Summary: Not the best of her books but still high quality...
Review: The descriptions and stories are great, though sometimes the nature descriptions get a little out of hand. The book is interesting and you can learn from it, and at the same time it's exciting. I would off course encourage anyone to read the book, but I would also say there is more to look forward to.
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Summary: THE BEST BOOKS EVER
Review: I have never in my life read a book that has taken me away like these have. I will read these books for the rest of my life, and it will still carry me away each time. I can't wait for the fifth book to come out. I believe every young teenage girl should read these books. I wish I had read it when I was a teenager. It might have changed my understanding of what love could be. I also connected in a spiritual sense.
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