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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)

Jean M. Auel

Start date: January 15, 2018

Finish date: January 22, 2018

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Jul 10, 2018 Celise rated it it was amazing

Shelves: to-reread-someday, historical-fiction, favourites

Yesterday was one of those moments where I finished a book and went "...Damn, I wish I'd known while reading this that it would make it onto that really short list of books I wish I could read again for the first time." I probably would have savoured it more.

Buddy read with Caught Between Pages. Thanks for the lovely discussions about unlovely things :)
And this book is full of unlovely things.

Ayla is a cro-magnon child separated from her people. She is taken in by a clan of Neanderthals, less ...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Kaila rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016, historical-fiction, i-own-this, fiction

I've read this book twice before, as far as I recall. The first time was probably eighth grade? The second time was probably high school? I don't remember exactly when. I was surprised at how much of the story was completely familiar to me. I was even more surprised I read it when I was young and wasn't completely disgusted by the sex talk ("his pulsing organ"). Oh yeah, and that one section of the book where she was continually raped for like a year.

Yeah...

There's a lot of repetition and explai ...more

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Sep 28, 2013 R.M. Ambrose rated it it was ok

Shelves: abandoned

The third person omniscient narrative voice was too omniscient, frequently using concepts of the modern world to describe the prehistoric. I can tolerate a little of this, but there was just too much. Even characters with little verbal language were thinking modern thoughts.

Human cultures are constantly evolving, so it bothered me when she described the clan's culture is frozen in time. When she said their traditions have become genetic traits, she totally lost me. ...more

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