[ SECRET POST #3850 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3850 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/neqi637.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I thought this was the wolf brother series until I read the word explicit and I was confused. I will have a look at the series, it looks good from the cover if that means anything.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a lot of (outdated) research piled into these things, tons of bodice-ripper style sex from book 2 on, and the lead character was apparently responsible for 90% of the inventions used by Cro-Magnons.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a very accurate and concise summation.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading these in middle school because I thought they would be a fun, historical romp.

Oh boy.

[(Anonymous)]

Just the first three tho, the last three were so bad I can't remember 4 and 5 even tho I finished both, and 6 was so fucking awful I couldn't even get a quarter of the way thru. I know Jean Auel is a great writer and story teller, and her research is spot-on (and she was fulfilling a contractual obligation for 6 books), but yeah...I don't think there's a way to do this, nonny. (Besides, look at that awful movie with Darryl Hannah, yikes!)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, the last few books were just crazy bad. I'm not saying the beginning of the series were masterpieces either, but toward the end the characterization went to hell in a handbasket.

[(Anonymous)]

Clan of the Cave Bear was a masterpiece, The Valley of Horses was excellent, and The Mammoth Hunters was good but really got into cheesy romance territory (not that there's anything wrong with that). But the last three...she just didn't care anymore and holy crap did it show.

[feotakahari]

My father insists he reads these for the plot.

Also relevant: http://pictorial.jezebel.com/what-a-bonkers-book-about-horny-cave-people-taught-me-a-1796726149

[(Anonymous)]

That article is definitely similar to my experence!

[tabaqui]

Oh, man. Those books. I loved a lot of them, because 'how to hunt and kill a deer-creature' or 'how to make soup from stuff you picked' or 'how to sew boots from hide' is catnip to me - i loved all that stuff in the Laura Ingalls books, too!

But man, i just wish there were some things that she *hadn't* invented......

[(Anonymous)]

Same here! It's why I loved books like Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain when I was a kid. But having Ayla invent everything under the sun got hilariously implausible really fast.

[tabaqui]

Julie of the Wolves! Omg, i haven't met a lot of people who've read that. And did you read Island of the Blue Dolphins, too? Any book with stuff like that in it attracted me.

Different Anon

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking the other day I needed to re-read Julie of the Wolves (and its sequel) and figure out if I still had a copy of Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Scott O'Dell could certainly tell a story!

Re: Different Anon

[tabaqui]

I don't think i read the Julie sequel. I was always upset when the 'loner' person decided to go back to 'civilization'. I wanted them to just keep on having adventures, living with wolves, whatever.

He could! I should look up all his books and see what else is there....

[were_lemur]

I loved both of those books! (And I don't remember if I read the sequel to Julie of the Wolves, but I didn't like the sequel to Island of the Blue Dolphins AT ALL. Give me solitary nature-dwelling women any day.

[tabaqui]

OH, ick. I can't imagine a sequel, since she was in some horrible 'mission'. Unless she runs away back to her island.

[(Anonymous)]

I read Island of the Blue Dolphins and the sequel in fifth grade. My teacher hated the sequel and one of the assignments was to basically write a fanfic.

[tabaqui]

Neat! :)

[(Anonymous)]

You might enjoy A Girl Named Disaster, it's a YA book about a girl traveling to her father's family from Mozambique to Zimbabwe, and there's a lot of survival stuff like in Island of the Blue Dolphins.

[tabaqui]

Oh, nice! *adds to book wishlist*
Thank you!