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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read
Review: I've been rereading this book for the past 20 years. It is one of my favorites...as are all of the books in the Earth's Children series.
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Summary: An awesome book
Review: This book is part of a very moving series about what ancient history could have been like for the cro-mags as they moved in on the neanderthals (cavemen). This book is very touching and is filled with descriptions that show evidence of her extensive research about what prehistoric Europe might have been like. It's also a good escapist story for bored people or college students like me to read in our spare time. Actually I'd recommend this to anybody whos willing to take the time to read it.
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Summary: The Clan Of the Cave Bear
Review: Customers certainly do not need my oppinion, but I need to give it. The Clan of the Cave Bear was one of the first books I have ever read of its kind. I was obsessed with surviving and occupied my childhood with studying plants and animals, disgusted by people who depended so dearly on civilization. Greatfull for my safe home, I still ventured out every day hunting around my backyard for wilderness adventures, and swear I pretended to live the 'survivor series' so popular today back when those who produce it now were in their own back yards dreaming the same thing. I am convinced Ms. Auel has somehow BEEN to the time of the Clan....
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Summary: Definately a Must-Read
Review: I picked up this book because it seemed like the best of a lot of bad choices, but once I read a little bit, I was lost. There are plenty of reasons to list on why this book is an excellent read, but don't take our word for it. Pick it up for yourself. This book was enlightening, encouraging, heartwrenching and always interesting. You just had to know what happened next. I've been impatiently waiting for the fifth book in the series, and I've pre-ordered well in advance. I wish I could thank Ms. Auel for providing such a wonderful heroine, who's world is too easy to get lost in.
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Summary: a classic
Review: What an incredible journey into prehistoric times! This book is so vivid, so moving, and has exquisite detail about Ayla's world- both her personal feelings and experiences and the civilization she finds herself in. Do not miss this book.
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Summary: A moving book about the endurance of humanity
Review: I first read this book when I was in 7th grade, and am rereading it now, in 11th grade. This is an amazing story that my dad convinced me to read, and I've become hooked on the whole series! Auel gives the reader not only meticulously researced information concerning culture, vivid descriptions of the neanderthals, and geography, but also a twisting, inviting plot that makes the book impossible to put down! Thus Clan of the Cave Bear(and the entire Earth's ChildrenTM series) appeals to a wide audience. Adventure, history, and an eloquent storytelling style are combined with excellent results.
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Summary: You won't be able to put this one down
Review: In our society time is money...zero to 60 in as few seconds as possible! Well, get in my 80 horse power Nissan and you'll probably wonder why it isn't moving. Before you realize it though, you're doing 65 with the rest of the crowd.That's what this novel will do to you. It starts you off in a Nissan that quicly transforms into a BMW roadster. And the next thing you know you've lost a night's sleep because you can't put it down! Set in prehistoric times when the era of the Neanderthals was slowly giving way to the Cro-Magnons, "Clan..." follows the life of Ayla, a blonde Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a clan of Neanderthals, as she grows into young womanhood. (Keep in mind that in Cro-Magnon days females became young women in their early teens.) The adventures of Ayla begin at age 5 and continue into her mid-teens. Along the way Ms Auel creates Ayla into something of a wonder woman. For example---clan women are forbidden to hunt or use weapons of any kind. So naturally Ayla finds a sling and teaches herself how to use it in secret. When her secret is found out Ayla, 14 years old and more than 8 months pregnant, is banished for one month in the dead of winter. As far as the Clan is concerned this is tantamount to a death sentence, since in all of the Clan's memories no female in her condition had ever survived such a banishment. But Ayla retreats to a small cave she had discovered months earlier, stocks the cave with wood and bedding materials, hunts for food with her sling, and gives birth to a son. All of this on her own, mind you, in blinding snow storms and only 14 years old. But hey!...it is a work of fiction, right?. And let's face it, females of that era surely had to be just as rugged and resourceful as the males in order to survive. So maybe it isn't so unbelievable after all. One thing is sure, you will be rooting for Ayla from beginning to end. Regardless of how far fetched you may find Ayla's adventures, Jean Auel's fertile imagination (and her obvious research) has created a novel that is truely entertaining and well worth reading.
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Summary: Picking a new book to read is guesswork...
Review: Picking this book is not. An employee of a chain book store recommended it to me. After reading the synopsis on the back cover, I had to ask if he was kidding. Needless to say I bought the book and after struggling through the first few pages, I found it nearly impossible to put down. Whether you're a frat boy or an elderly woman, get this book and you will find yourself quickly stocking up on the rest of the books in the series and pushing the ones you've already read on friends and family.
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Summary: really really bad
Review: i find it incredible that so many people speak so glowingly of this book. on the basis of its literary merit it deserves a prominent spot in supermarket checkout lanes. that this is in any way respected as a novel or thought of as remotely historical (pre-historical, is suppose) speaks sad volumes about our society. i guess my one star may be a bit harsh. it's concievable that one could glean some amusement or light entertainment from this. but i feel a civic duty to in bring down the five star average it's garnered so far.
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Summary: I'm going to buy the next three in the series tommarow!!!!!!
Review: I purchased this novel after my friend gave me a quick summary on what the book was about, she said that it was one of her favorite novels ever, and it is a contemporary classic so I bought it on my next trip to the bookstore One thing that also compelled me to buy this novel is that an friend of mine has the name Ayla, which is the name of the main character in the novel. Her mother named her Ayla because her mother loved the character in the novel so much that she wanted her own daughter to grow up with that worthy name. Needless to say, when I read the very first page of this novel I was hooked it would interest even the most impatient of readers! After I finished it I was convinced that this was one of the best stories I have ever read. I can't explain to you in words how great of a novel The Clan Of The Cave bear was. Anyone with an open mind will enjoy this novel, I can guarantee that. If there are people on this review list who are accusing this novel of being 'dated' and un-factual, I have the explanations for that right here. The novel takes place 35,000 years ago, and of course its not completely factual, that's why there is a big word on the side, and back of the novel 'Fiction'. Now as I have done with all of the other book reviews I have written, will give you a summary of the books beginning, but I won't go pass what happens on page 100 or more so you can enjoy the novel, and not have it all given away to you. The novel starts off with Ayla, a 5 year old, struggling to survive after a surprising earthquake. She calls out for her mom, but her mom is nowhere to be found. She is to far, and it is to dangerous to go back to her home now because of destruction caused by the earthquake, so has to cross a river and find things to eat, and water to drink. Finding water is extremely easy because there is a river nearby, but finding food is a whole different story. Remember this story took place 35,000 years ago so she dose not know how to hunt, and even if she was a boy she was only 5 years old so either way she didn't know how to kill food, or pick food of tree's of bushes yet. Ayla eventually fainted because she had very little food, and food of course is crucial to your survival. She stays unconscious on the floor when a clan comes around in search of a new cave because theirs was destroyed in the horrible earthquake. Most of the members of the clan just overlook and pass Ayla when they see her face down on the floor. But Iza, the medicine woman of the clan feels like she must save the girls life. Iza asks the leader of the clan, Brun, if she can take the girl on the ground that she found. Brun thinks about it and after a while tells her she can. Iza was pregnant with a baby so Brun thought that she would surely put the girl down because of all the extra weight she had, but Iza is a medicine woman and medicine woman are usually very helpful to others and help others when they are in need so Iza carried Ayla with her until the finally found the Cave. When The clan finally found a new cave some were convinced the girl that Iza carried, brought luck the clan and helped them find their cave, but there were some who thought that Ayla should have been left where she was found because she was one of the 'others' and that the spirts would surely disapprove of it. But Iza fought and fought her way through the doubts of others to help this girl back to health. After Ayla was completely healthy the Mog-ur of the clan (Mog-ur I guess means something like a psychic) thought Ayla their language. The whole clan was astonished at how quickly Ayla picked up on to their language, because with their own members it would take many months to teach them a new language, but Ayla picked it up right away! I just hate to leave you here where nothing especially exiting has happened but I must because I hate it when people give away the whole novels to me so I will not be a hypocrite. I'll assure you that if you thought that little summary of the beginning was even the least bit interesting, this will be one of the best story's you have ever read! Please pick up this novel now, don't read any more reviews just go get it you'll be thanking me later!
I can't wait until the new one comes out. ---Oskar Vidaurre
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