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toodamnmanymusesWell obviously this friend must have great taste to be coming to me. I mean I am the world’s fastest speed reader after all, and the books I haven’t actually read yet I’ve managed to pick up through osmosis. So of course, I know exactly which book is the absolute best in the whole, wide, world without any doubt in my mind. Yes, that’s right. It’s The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel.
Why, you ask? Well that’s easy. You see, this book is all about this poor little girl named Ayla, whose parents are killed in this huge earthquake, leaving her all alone to face the elements in a prehistoric world. Eventually she is found by a group of ugly Neanderthals, who take her in even though she is so very different from them with her pale skin and eyes the color of the sky. Although she is the lowest on the totem pole within the tribe, she eventually learns how to be a great healer and an exceptional cook. Her animal totem is even a cave lion, which is always a male totem. It’s because of this that she eventually becomes the only woman in the whole Neanderthal nation to hunt, and she even helps to invent a spear thrower! She learns to read the language of the body because that is how her tribe speaks, and can tell when someone is lying and how they are feeling just by looking at them. However one man is so jealous of her and how she has become so popular with the tribe, that he brutally rapes her and ends up giving her a son, who she is eventually forced to leave behind when she is banished from the tribe.
However, this is not the end of our beautiful heroine. There are actually a whole series of books all about her! They tell how she tames a cave lion, domesticates the first horse and dog, invents the needle, learns many new things in a short amount of time, is embraced wholeheartedly by another tribe, and eventually falls in love with a handsome man. All of this, and I haven’t even mentioned half of what happens with this amazing young woman.
I mean seriously, who wouldn’t want to read a book about such a wonderful, beautiful, and unique person as Ayla? It’s absolutely perfect!
Why, you ask? Well that’s easy. You see, this book is all about this poor little girl named Ayla, whose parents are killed in this huge earthquake, leaving her all alone to face the elements in a prehistoric world. Eventually she is found by a group of ugly Neanderthals, who take her in even though she is so very different from them with her pale skin and eyes the color of the sky. Although she is the lowest on the totem pole within the tribe, she eventually learns how to be a great healer and an exceptional cook. Her animal totem is even a cave lion, which is always a male totem. It’s because of this that she eventually becomes the only woman in the whole Neanderthal nation to hunt, and she even helps to invent a spear thrower! She learns to read the language of the body because that is how her tribe speaks, and can tell when someone is lying and how they are feeling just by looking at them. However one man is so jealous of her and how she has become so popular with the tribe, that he brutally rapes her and ends up giving her a son, who she is eventually forced to leave behind when she is banished from the tribe.
However, this is not the end of our beautiful heroine. There are actually a whole series of books all about her! They tell how she tames a cave lion, domesticates the first horse and dog, invents the needle, learns many new things in a short amount of time, is embraced wholeheartedly by another tribe, and eventually falls in love with a handsome man. All of this, and I haven’t even mentioned half of what happens with this amazing young woman.
I mean seriously, who wouldn’t want to read a book about such a wonderful, beautiful, and unique person as Ayla? It’s absolutely perfect!
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Date: 2008-04-22 08:33 pm (UTC)That other thread is making me so sad.
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Date: 2008-04-22 08:41 pm (UTC)In my teens...Me too. He's very into the moment though, which is why I haven't tried with the other two threads yet. *sigh*
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Date: 2008-04-22 08:54 pm (UTC)Teenage reading never counts.No hurry on them. I would be too sad to write them myself, especially given what seems to be about to happen in the one we're working on. I really wish that Ynez didn't have a documented track record of doing stupid things that are totally against her own best interest. You have no idea.
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