Jean M. Auel
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 891 pages Rating: 3.82 | 40594 Users | 1255 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children #5) |
| Author | : | Jean M. Auel |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 891 pages |
| Published | : | April 27th 2004 by Bantam (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy |
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The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills. But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla's unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii. Jean Auel is at her very best in this superbly textured creation of a prehistoric society. The Shelters of Stone is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detail based on meticulous research that makes her novels unique. It is a triumphant continuation of the Earth's Children saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earth's Children and plays its own role in the narrative of The Shelters of Stone.Be Specific About Books Conducive To The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children #5)
| Original Title: | The Shelters of Stone |
| ISBN: | 0553382616 (ISBN13: 9780553382617) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Earth's Children #5 |
| Characters: | Ayla, Jondalar |
| Literary Awards: | Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek Nominee (2002) |
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I'm torn about this book. I was very interested to see the Zelandonii through Ayla's eyes. I was excited to learn about a new prehistoric culture. I was happy Ayla and Jondalar resolved their "issues." I was interested to see if Jondalar's people would accept Ayla and how they would react to her story.I was really happy to get through The Plains of Passage, which I found intensely boring. I was ready for the next adventure!All that is in the book but... blah. It fell flat. There is no dramaticFirst read April 2009.Sometimes you just need some caveman politics, cultural studies, and soft-core porn to comfort you in rough times. Or at least I do. (Also? This book was the fifth in a buy-four-get-one-free at the library book sale.)Rereading February 2011 in anticipation of the last book in the series coming out this spring.This book does not need to be 800+ pages long! If only Auel didn't have Ayla tell and re-tell the same stories every time she meets a new character - stories that
The main flaw in this book (and the last couple of them as well) is the repetition. Ms. Auel is a good author who can illustrate a scene vividly, but her downfall is that she repeats herself so much.I kept reading about how amazed people were at Ayla and Wolf and the horses. It happened like ten times. Enough is enough. Yeah, we get the idea. There's also how often people think Ayla is so hot or smart or amazing or whatever. Even Marona, despite her hatred for Ayla, is jealous because Ayla is so
I was excited to read this when I borrowed it from the library. Valley of Horses has been one of my fave books for years and I have read it many times. I read the Mammoth Hunters and Plains of Passage quite a long time ago but I dont remember them being as bad as this book.NOTHING happens in this book. They arrive back at Jondalars home, they go to the Summer meeting, get mated (these two take FOREVER TO HAPPEN and then the rest is a few chapters at the end....), come home and she has a baby.
Let me first say that I read the earlier books of this series approximately 20 years ago. I remember really enjoying them. At that time, at least to me, they were very original and exciting. The only complaint I had was that Ayla was such an 'amazing' woman, that it wouldn't have shocked me if the author had her invent electricity, the automobile and the computer since she invented everything else known to mankind.However, reading this book now really made me wonder if they were as good as I
This is a great book in the series.We got to learn more about the herbs and thier uses, we got to travel more and meet many new and interesting people with different cultures.I've enjoyed riding along on the Ayla and Jondular train, I find myself always rooting for them!Only bad thing about this book is knowing the author has left us fans hanging for too many years now to finally get to read the final conclusion of the series. Hopefully Jean M Auel will do right by Ayla, Jondular and her fans
This book is not worth reading unless you fell in love with Ayla in Clan of the Cave Bear and Valley of the Horses and are desperate to find out how her story continues. Each installment in this series is weighted down with the retelling of all of the previous books in the series, plus all the description that Jean Auel heaps into her books, to the point that this monster advances Ayla's story by barely a year. Typically, the description of technology, biology, and landscape in the Earth's
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