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Summary: absolutely incredible! a must read!
Review: i picked this book up during midterms and i couldnt put it down
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Summary: NOT Auel's Earth's Children
Review: I purchased this book due to numerous favorable comparisons of this series to Auel's Earth's Children series among the reviews - plus the favorable recommendation given to the book by Ms. Auel, herself. But this is not in the same league of Clan of the Cave Bear, or, even, Valley of the Horses. She Who Remembers lacks in the opulent detail of Auel's work - the fauna, flora, survival strategies including hunting, gathering and tool making, etc. This is a garden-variety adventure. The romances of Kwani, the protagonist, are shallow. The setting does not envelope the reader, transporting you back to a different place and time. Both the Earth's Children series and "She Who Remembers" are about extrordinary women who are set-apart from their own people and going on a journey of discovery. But there the similarities end. Auel's work soars, while Shuler's falls flat.
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Summary: It was a passionate and amazing story that I couldn't stop!
Review: I read this book first in fourtth grade and again in 8th grade. It is the most amazing story ever. I would reccomend it to anyone.
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Summary: A great book~
Review: I read this book some time ago.... after I finished Jean Auel's books... I found these three by Linda Lay Shuler.. I introduced these books to my boyfriend few days ago and I think he will like it because he enjoyed reading Jean Auel's books and it was him who got me into reading Auel's books... =) all in all, these three books are a must read :)
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Summary: Great!!!
Review: I really like this book.It shows all the hardships of prehistoric times and the people who lived in that time.I thought it was better than the sequel.A really great book!!!
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Summary: Thrusting Man Parts of the PaleoAmerican West
Review: I should have quit after the first chapter, but so many people had recommended this book that I kept going, thinking it would improve. It just got more absurd. Finally it was just that goofiness that kept me reading.The character of Kwani, far from being a brave, heroic female as the author seems to want her to be, is a silly ditz who claims that all she wants is a protector, a home, and some children. In pursuit of this goal, apparently, she "mates" with every hottie who catches her eye - regardless of the consequences. Seems like every time she turns around, there's another Thrusting Man Part (the author's words!!) seeking her attention. The sex is more silly than erotic. Sillier still is a ceremony in which Kwani (she of the cactus fruit nipples!) is "reborn" into a tribe - crawling naked between the legs of all the women as they grunt in simulated labor, then attempting to nurse from their breasts. One bad mama deliberately pees on Kwani as she passes between her legs...and Kwani retaliates by biting her nipple until it bleeds. Everyone has a great time watching the two women roll around the stone floor, gouging eyes and pulling hair. But when Thorvald, the Viking, showed up in the story, I had to laugh out loud. There weren't any Vikings in America or anywhere else by the 1200's! Ok, it's fiction. But come on. I also don't remember learning that the Pueblo Indians did much buffalo hunting. So much for the author's "careful research." I am not a fan of bodice-ripper romances, but I do like historical fiction. This book was just trite, silly, and insulting.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!!
Review: I think that this is one of the most touching, beautifully written, most climactic books I have read in my entire life! Linda Lay Shuler is a MAGNIFICENT author and I hope she keeps writing! I want to read Voice of the Eagle and Let the Drum Speak as soon as I can!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Excellent adult historical fiction.
Review: I've always enjoyed learning about Native American life, but I hesitated at the start of this book, not thinking I would enjoy this long of a book on Native American historical fiction. I quickly learned how wrong I was. This book is fantasic. There is always something going on, not a boring telling of Native American life, but a constant adventure through the lives of various tribes and a brilliant development of special women and men of early American life. It gives an excellent telling of the hierarchy of the clans. I could not put this book down and so look forward to reading the two sequels.
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Summary: She who remembers
Review: im trying to find this book in hard back. You only have it paper back. I would really appreatiate if you can find this book in hard back thankyou
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Summary: Enjoyable, but too many details and some of them wrong
Review: Linda Lay Shuler is often compared to Jean M. Auel - author of the tales of prehistoric Wonder Woman Ayla. It is true that both center their books around a strong woman, that the spiritual world is an important element and that both enjoy packing their stories with details on everyday processes such as how to grind corn, how to make herbal tea, how to weave a basket, how to treat menstrual flow, diseases etc. However, Jean M. Auel can get away with being a bit inaccurate here and there. A story that takes place several thousand years ago leaves space for a few colourful additions to make the story more entertaining. Linda Lay Shuler has written a book about life in what is now New Mexico a couple of centuries before Colombus. And she has clearly set out to make her description of the pueblos of Mesa Verde as accurate as possible. The list of sources is vast. That leaves less space for the author to treat the historical material casually, and it seems to me that Linda Lay Shuler generally tends to stick pretty much to fact or at least to what seems credible. Her main character, the pueblo woman Kwani, is not a semi-goddess like Ayla. She is beautiful, she is strong but she doesn't ride around on lions while she treats rheumatism with one hand and slays a mammoth with the other. Kwani has blue eyes from the Viking forefathers that "discovered" America long before Colombus, and sets out to find a mysterious blue-eyed tribe far to the East to get protection. Her eyes have caused her to be cast out from her tribe, accused of witchery. Her travel turns out to be at least as much an inwards journey as an exhausting, often very dangerous, meeting with harsh nature, tribes suspicious of her blue eyes and jealous of her beaty and men that seem to either hate or love her. Some of them both. The story of Kwani's change from an unsecure outcast to a self-assured woman of power in close contact with the spiritual world is to me the story's most satisfying aspect, more so because it seems enti! rely credible. The description of the different tribes also avoids the danger of being too rosy. They quarrel, they fight, they gossip as well as talk to spirits and hunt buffalo. However, I found some of the details too elaborate. Not only are some of them unessarily long, but now and again they also tend to break the flow of the story itself - something an author should do only with extreme care and for better reasons than insight on pueblo handicraft if it doesn't help the story along. This has all the markings of "look at all the research I've done to get it just right". Well, some of it isn't right. I am not an expert on ancient Native Americans but, being Danish, I do know about culture in the Scandinavian countries. According to Linda Lay Shuler the story takes place in the late 13th Century. In the story Kwani meets the Viking Thorvald - an uncivilized Northener that seems to want only to rape the women and steal the treasures of the tribes - a man that despises the spirit world and only believes in his own cruel Norse gods. That part annoys me immensely. The Vikings were long gone in the year 1270. They hadn't existed for close to 200 years. All the Scandinavian countries were christened and had been for more than 200 years. Actually, the church had so much power at the time that it caused some fairly lively years not long after as the kings tried to get some of the influence back. The description of Thorvald the Viking would be more accurate had the story taken place before or just around the year 1000 and even then there would be very few brutes like him around. In the year 1270 it is a gross anachronism and an annoying one as Linda Lay Shuler seems to have gone to extremes in her effort to do justice to Native Americans. Having said so I will still recommend "She who remembers". It is entertaining, hard to put down, you get involved with the characters - and you can start your own "how to live the pueblo way"-course afterwards.
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