The Clan of the Cave Bear

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Summary: Absolutely deightful...totally enthralling!!!
Review: My husband and I listened to the entire series on audio cassette. Enjoyed it so much we're starting it again. Please hurry Ms. Auel with the next book

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Summary: One of the best and most enthralling books I've ever read.
Review: The Clan of the Cave Bear is by far, one of the most creative and well told stories I've ever come across. Not only are the characters brought into vivid relief but the feeling of living in the Upper Paleolithic is so strong one could almost feel the ice from the glaciers, and taste the salt of the water. The first breath of air and the blows of Broud. This wonderful novel sets up the heroine, Ayla, for her destiny with the tall and handsome Jondalar in the following books of the series and does it so well it is a pleasure to re-read this book again and again. I wouldn't trade owning this book for anything

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Summary: The start of a series which should amaze all readers
Review: I have been wanting to read this book for quite some time but I could never get a chance to pick it up and read it. While I was in 8th grade this year, my English teacher gave us a reading list on a certain topic. And on the list was "The Clan of the Cave Bear." I immediatly decided that this was the book that I was going to read. What a marvelous book! I couldn't put it down. Jean Auel has a gift for writing. The characters were built with such detail and emotion that I thought the characters really existed somewhere in that time.With all the research Jean Auel has done for this book, and the others, you feel that you are actually there while all these events are taking place. This book was also educational for me, which no school textbook could do about these past times. I have read the three other books by Jean Auel and I am anxiously waiting for the fifth book

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Summary: Outstanding and addicting
Review: I usually read techincal books and actually bought this novel because it was recommended to me while inquiring about books to get for my 16 year old daughter for the summer. I picked up the book while in a hotel room with the family asleep in hopes that it would lull me off to sleep but, I was wrong. Instead it led me down a path of time travel that brought me a kind of knowledge and understanding that kept me captivated from beginning to end. My techie books took a back seat to this most incredible,insightful and absorbing book as I look forward to reading the rest of the books in this series, my only disappointment in this book was that it had to come to an end.

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Summary: Jean M auel can't be beaten!
Review: I loved this book, just as much as the other three! Now I'm just waiting for the fift book. I belive it's a while since it should have comed out. So if you read this Mrs Auel, PLEASE finish your fift book about Ayla

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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I love this book! A friend of mine told me to read it, so I decided to trie. And when I started to read I couldn't stop. Some books are like that, and the clan of the cave bear is one of them. When I read it I saw pictures in my head, and I really felt with the persons in the book. I really think this is a book everyone should read! And even the following books,(Walley of horses, The mammoth hunters and Plains of passage) that is as good as the Clan of the cavebear

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Summary: No other story quite like it!
Review: Jean M. Auel has written a one of a kind story in my opinion. I've never read anything like THE EARTH'S CHILDREN series. I've read all four books more than once. They are not only well written but the research that went into writing them is so complete. But don't think her account of the people in the stories represents history. Remember, these books are sold in the fiction section. They're fiction, fantasy and romance. She did a lot of research and you can really get a feel of what the land must have been like 25,000 years ago. Much has been learned about the peole of that era since she wrote the books and so much of it seems inacurate, but it is only a story, after all and one that is extremely well written

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Summary: Tries hard, but stereotyped and inaccurate.
Review: Extremely well-written, good plot, characters and Mrs. Auel has done some research. Now here's the bad part. It is anthropologically inaccurate. Mrs. Auel does a beautifully stereotyped depiction of the Neanderthals as stooped, muzzle-jawed, intellectually inferior creatures as compared to wonderful Cro-Magnon people with their tall erect graceful carriage, blue eyes and blond hair. I mentioned this book to my anthropology professor and he said, very succintly, "Burn it!"

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Summary: An amasing book
Review: It's hard to guess that we know very little about the time in which this book is set and the way their societys worked. This book makes the past seem as real as the present. Ayla's life and struggles seem to show how little humanity has changed since the beginning of time. It's easy to identify with her in her struggles against prejudices in the early world

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Summary: The clan Of the cave bear is a good book
Review: It has an interesting plot and alot of great information. I read this book when I was in 6th grade, what made me be able to get through it was the fact that the character Ayla was so well built and that I was able to believe she was real and that those thing's actually happened to her. The rest of the character's were good too but Iza and Ayla were my favorite. I am in 8th grade now and have read the four book's in the series that have came out, and I'm waiting for the 5th to be written so I can read it! when I read this book I couldn't set it down. Don't worry about letting young children read it, I read it when I was young and I was able to get over the troubling part's. I actually think it is very educational. Jean did a great job on reaserch and wrote a very interesting, fun book. I reccomend it