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The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel
adventurous
medium-paced
Mixed feelings about this one. I love historical fiction, so I thought prehistorical fiction would be right in my alley. Well not exactly, not with this book at least. The idea is interesting, however I didn't like the execution. As much as I'm curious to Ayla's further adventures, I'm not sure I'll read the other books because I can't read more of how much better this species is than the other and that's why that species is destined to extinction and the other not. I got it from the first time you alluded to it, the countless further allusions were not necessary... The cro-magnon, represented by Ayla, a blond hair and blue eyed slender girl gets adopted by the backward thinking neanderthal clan of the cave bear. She comes and shows them feminism, lol. Her flaws are being outspoken, too smart for her own good (thanks to the developed front lobe) and being freakishly ugly. Which I don't get the explicit attention towards it because she's "ugly" because she's different.
Lot of eye rolling and sighing, but the story might be good, as I said interesting, but I can't with the species racism / xenophobia.
The reason it's too much is because Auel alternates between the narrator that tells the story through the thoughts of different characters and the all knowing narrator that explains everything, something like "their frontal lobes were not developed to do maths". This made it feel like it was a documentary following people around then a fiction story.
Lot of eye rolling and sighing, but the story might be good, as I said interesting, but I can't with the species racism / xenophobia.
The reason it's too much is because Auel alternates between the narrator that tells the story through the thoughts of different characters and the all knowing narrator that explains everything, something like "their frontal lobes were not developed to do maths". This made it feel like it was a documentary following people around then a fiction story.