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Summary: If you haven't read it yet, don't wait another minute!
Review: Perhaps one of the best "easy reads" of all time. This story is unusual and unexpected, but unforgettable. Think about it...there's a reason this book is still being raved about!
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Summary: A great book
Review: This is an amazing book. My name on Amazon isn't just because I'm a crazed fan of the series, it's because my mother named me after the herion of this book. I think it's amazing how Ayla overcame the hardships in her life and learned to used her healing and keep her calm over Broud. She's an amazing role model to look up to, for me, and for anyone who reads this. I highly recomend this. If you won't listen to the older readers, listen to me. I'm thirteen years old, and this is one of the best books I've ever read.
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Summary: A Fantastic Read
Review: I love to read, and I especially love to see a movie for the first time and find out that it was inspired by a novel. The Clan of the Cave Bear movie was good, but the book is amazing. Jean M. Auel tells an engaging story. Ayla's life from the loss of her parents, to being found by the Clan at age 5, to dealing with their differences is all very well told. I love the fact that she becomes what most women in the tribe would not even consider becomming. I read this very huge book in 2 days, I don't even remember if I stopped to eat or sleep. I try to reread it at least once a year. If you like books that grab your attention and then refuse to let go-This is the book for you.
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Summary: A fascinating tale
Review: This book is an excellent choice if you want three things: a great heroine (in the form of Ayla), an epic adventure (this is the beginning of a long series), and lots of fascinating insight into the ways of prehistoric man and the Neanderthals. I had never read a book based in prehistory and I was pleasantly surprised. The author's careful description of the tribe's skills held my attention, and I truly enjoyed watching the human girl, Ayla, become a woman among a Neanderthal tribe. I recommend this to high school students and older.
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Summary: Interesting, but not great literature
Review: This has definitely become a cult classic. I really liked the book the first time around, and it is a compelling story, but it definitely has some flaws. One of the biggest is Auel's writing. Her story ideas are good, but the execution is not great. Oh, let's face it, she writes like a tenth grader. An imaginative tenth grader, to be sure, but a tenth grader just the same. With that in mind, the best audience for this book is the high school crowd. Ayla has that whole teen rebellion thing going. As I've gotten older, she keeps getting less sympathetic. Seriously, it almost seems like she goes out of her way to get into trouble, and that whole "she was different, she couldn't help it" line just sounds like an excuse for her lack of self-control. Just because one has the ability to break every rule of their society, doesn't mean one should, but she's smart,blonde and pretty, so we'll build a series around her.
<sigh>
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Summary: Absolutely the Best in the Series
Review: First read this years ago and have reread it time after time. It is a fascinating story, always engrossing! One of those that will stay with you forever - in a good way. None of the sequels have been nearly as good as this first book - but you still read them, hoping. I picked this book up near the register at the supermarket while waiting in line and was hooked after the first page. Hopefully sooner rather than later, Auel will get the main character (Ayla) back to the Clan for the resolution of this series. Whether she does or not, this book stands on its own. Read and enjoy!
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Summary: Prehistory - Schmistory
Review: Intellectually and artistically roughly on a par with the Flintstones. Despite the numerous five star reviews it has received here this risible prehistoric bonkbuster is utter dross, a hopelessly 'eighties modernist' take on the past diplaying minimal knowledge of human nature and the way new ideas and societies really evolve. Of course good fairy tales can be entertaining for children and adults alike and are an esential part of our cultural heritage. Not this one though
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Summary: Great Book - Read it in 3 days
Review: This is one of the best books for a summer day - but it was so good I read it in three days - no small feat.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: It's been quite awhile since I read this book and the others in the Cave Bear series. This book was definitely the best of the bunch. I have not read the latest one yet, but intend to in the near future. This is the story that lays the plot for all the books in the series, and it is a stunner. It is so real that it's like Ms. Auel is writing of someone we know. We all feel that we are friends of Ayla by the time we get into the story. I found that Ms. Auel whetted my appetite for other prehistoric novelists, and that turned me to Kathleen and Michael Gear, who I also recommend.
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Summary: " THIS BOOK IS AWSUME"
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I read this book over the my vacation in April and i savored every word of it in the airplane and off. This book is about a girl named Alya who is seperated by her mother by a earthquake as a little girl. Alya has to try and servive but she gets bitten by a cave lion and gets hurt and then a clan of the cave bear find her and teach her there ways in this extrordianry book Don't forget that there are other books in the series. there is THE VALLEY OF THE HORSES witch is the book i am reading know and is the second in the series by Jean.M.Auel, THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS Witch is the third book in the Earths Children Series. THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE wich is the fourth in the series. And the newest one wich came out April 30,2002 THE SHELTERS OF STONE is the fifth book in the Earths Childrens series. I have to tell you the charecters in this book are great. There is Alya, Iza, Creb, Brun, Broud and much much more. i also have to say that my friend is named ALYA after the Alya in this book. I also have to tell you that this book my not be for you. If you like little detail in your stories then this book is not for you. Jean.M.Auel tells about the weather, the sourroundings, descriptions of people and much much more. But if you like alot of detail then this book is for you so I hope you enjoy the book just as much as i did.
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