Jean Auel Earth Children - Tomorrow? - Page 3

arcadata · 10-07-2010, 06:08 AM

For those waiting for The Clan of the Cave Bear, it's now available at the US Kindle store for $1.59. (and £1.16 at the UK Kindle Store)

The other books are $6.39 The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Shelters of Stone, The Plains of Passage.

HistoryWes · 10-07-2010, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

I kinda gave up halfway through book 4. I found it a little too much of a stretch to believe that Ayla was responsible for every major human discovery and invention prior to the internal combustion engine in about 3 years, 15,000 years ago...

In the next book she does create the internal combustion engine... and then a jetpack!

Lady Fitzgerald · 10-07-2010, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by HistoryWes

In the next book she does create the internal combustion engine... and then a jetpack!

About time!

Sweetpea · 10-07-2010, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

I kinda gave up halfway through book 4. I found it a little too much of a stretch to believe that Ayla was responsible for every major human discovery and invention prior to the internal combustion engine in about 3 years, 15,000 years ago...

It's actually one part of the reason why I like the series (though the last one was a bit too much repeats). Naturally, it wasn't one person who did all those discoveries. And not all within one life-time. But the way Ayla does these discoveries is plausible and might be the way those things got discovered. Probably not once, but several times, by various groups, over a long period of time.

Bald Eagle · 10-08-2010, 02:46 AM

Now, now, she didn't invent the wheel yet, hasn't discovered writing and has yet to acquire a cat.
But thats what book 6 is for

beppe · 10-08-2010, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by FizzyWater

I hope you're not saying you "present" for any male that gives "the signal"?!

I never understood what the signal actually is. if you can sort of help me along i will be very grateful.
Seriously.

look just to convince you that I am serious i take out my signature.

melonhead · 10-08-2010, 08:59 AM

I'm pretty sure the books never described what the signal looked like. My imagination provided several possibilities. [crazy face] We're living in crude times.

Sweetpea · 10-08-2010, 10:31 AM

I must say, more publishers should deliver books with this quality! I compared my version to the BoB version and there were only some minor differences where most of the mistakes were on my version...

abookreader · 10-08-2010, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Bald Eagle

Now, now, she didn't invent the wheel yet, hasn't discovered writing and has yet to acquire a cat.
But thats what book 6 is for

her kitty ran away.

Except he was a Cave Lion.

beppe · 10-08-2010, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by melonhead

I'm pretty sure the books never described what the signal looked like. My imagination provided several possibilities. [crazy face] We're living in crude times.

since i read about the signal i go around with a closed up face, hands in my pockets, hunched shoulders and never looking any body vaguely feminine in the eyes.

Least some of them attempt at my virtue.

Good looks can be a burden.

beppe · 10-08-2010, 03:59 PM

By far the books I enjoyed more are the second and the first, in that order. But all gave me undiluted pleasure. The weaknesses are obvious and in a way charming. It looks like, having studied the primitives in depth, she also became didactically primitive.

I think that apart from the adventures, excitement of the hunts, explicit sex, amazing reconstructions and the like, the books bring a message of love for life and tolerance toward the different that are very positive and touching.

GraceKrispy · 10-08-2010, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by FizzyWater

I hope you're not saying you "present" for any male that gives "the signal"?!

Uh, no. I never said I was a "rule follower!"

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Originally Posted by beppe

I never understood what the signal actually is. if you can sort of help me along i will be very grateful.
Seriously.

look just to convince you that I am serious i take out my signature.

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Originally Posted by melonhead

I'm pretty sure the books never described what the signal looked like. My imagination provided several possibilities. [crazy face] We're living in crude times.

I always sort of imagined a quick, but intentional, flick of the hand. Just a careless gesture that a oversexed primitive man would give. You know, like that. I did think it must be hard to get work done with random sex going on wherever.

Georgiegirl2012 · 10-08-2010, 08:52 PM

now i'm going to have to go and re-read to see if i can figure out the signal because I vaguely remember mention it now that you say, but had forgotten all about it. Isn't it as obvious a signal as some unfortunate adolescent boys have when an attractive female walks past which means they have to stay sitting down until they calm down a bit?

beppe · 10-09-2010, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Uh, no. I never said I was a "rule follower!"

I always sort of imagined a quick, but intentional, flick of the hand. Just a careless gesture that a oversexed primitive man would give. You know, like that. I did think it must be hard to get work done with random sex going on wherever.

Now everything is graphically clear. That is very good. Why we are so far a part, blast geography!

The oversexed primitive man is something that only you, me and Robert Crumb can imagine. Robert is busy elsewhere, so this leaves just you and me ...

beppe · 10-09-2010, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Georgiegirl2012

now i'm going to have to go and re-read to see if i can figure out the signal because I vaguely remember mention it now that you say, but had forgotten all about it. Isn't it as obvious a signal as some unfortunate adolescent boys have when an attractive female walks past which means they have to stay sitting down until they calm down a bit?

The famous blue bells.

10-07-2010, 06:08 AM	#31
arcadata Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,230 Karma: 4651787 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle, Kindle Fire, iPad, iPod Touch, Sony PRS-350	For those waiting for The Clan of the Cave Bear, it's now available at the US Kindle store for $1.59. (and £1.16 at the UK Kindle Store) The other books are $6.39 The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Shelters of Stone, The Plains of Passage. Last edited by arcadata; 10-07-2010 at 09:24 AM.

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