No! You can’t put paragraphs like that in a STORY! Did you copy it from an encyclopedia? You're confusing research with copy-pasting. They were the culmination of a branch of mankind whose brain was developed in the back of their heads, in the occipital and the parietal regions that control vision and bodily sensation and store memory." "All those primitive people, with almost no frontal lobes, and speech limited by undeveloped vocal organs, but with huge brains-larger than any race of man then living or future generations yet unborn-were unique. But since I had that constant running commentary that sounded like something from a BBC documentary I was forced to get out the story and look at it from a dispassionate, modern point of view, which inevitably led me to the conclusion that half of it was unbelievable bollocks. I wanted a story as seen through the eyes of prehistorical people and I’d seriously take anything the author threw my way, there would be no limits to my suspension of disbelief. I didn’t need that foreshadowing of the 20th century. I’m sorry, what? It’s 35000 BC, I don’t want to hear things like ‘hypothermia’ or ‘diuretic’ or ‘evolution’. "The plentiful supply of drinking water kept dehydration from making its dangerous contribution to hypothermia, the lowering of body temperature that brought death from exposure, but she was getting weak." It’s the writing I had many different problems with. It’s all ok, it’s comfort reading after all. I knew no real harm would ever come Ayla’s way, she would survive it all and meanwhile invent an iPhone. I didn’t even care she turned out to be the smartest, most beautiful, ingenious little thing and the villain in the story was almost grotesque and cartoonish in his evildoing. See, you had a good story there – a little Cro-Magnon orphan girl found and raised by Neanderthals. Be warned I’m quite angry because I keep reading your books for some bizarre reason and I cringe and tear my hair out in despair. I knew no real harm would ever c Ms Auel, there are some things I’d like to talk to you about. Ms Auel, there are some things I’d like to talk to you about. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.more But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her.
To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly-she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them.
Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.Ī natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. A natura This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear. This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.