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You folks are hilarious! I'm at work trying pretend that I'm not playing on the internet, and trying not to laugh out loud at the posts here.
I first read Valley of Horses back in the 1980s when I was in high school. Then I read Clan of the Cave Bear. I thought the first two books were beautifully written. The rest of them were good, but the quality was on a slow decline. SoS was not nearly as good as the others, but I read it a couple of times.
I'm a Quaternary geologist and I work for an archaeological consulting company, so I liked her descriptions of the Pleistocene world and lifeways of the people. Some of the characters were quite likeable too.
I got the latest book from the library. (I wasn't going to spend money for it anyways.) I had downloaded the first few chapters from a website a while back and started reading it and it was ...not so good... So I read the library copy for a bit hoping it would get better. I got to about chapter 9 and sent that tome back to the library. I read reviews online and read enough spoilers of what plot there was to decide it was just awful.
Maybe someone's writing style can change over 30 years, but I'd certainly hope it wouldn't get worse. It sure didn't read like it was wrote by JMA. It was a totally different writing style; shorter sentences, like bullet points. Some other folks wondered if it was ghost written also.
You folks are hilarious! I'm at work trying pretend that I'm not playing on the internet, and trying not to laugh out loud at the posts here.
I first read Valley of Horses back in the 1980s when I was in high school. Then I read Clan of the Cave Bear. I thought the first two books were beautifully written. The rest of them were good, but the quality was on a slow decline. SoS was not nearly as good as the others, but I read it a couple of times.
I'm a Quaternary geologist and I work for an archaeological consulting company, so I liked her descriptions of the Pleistocene world and lifeways of the people. Some of the characters were quite likeable too.
I got the latest book from the library. (I wasn't going to spend money for it anyways.) I had downloaded the first few chapters from a website a while back and started reading it and it was ...not so good... So I read the library copy for a bit hoping it would get better. I got to about chapter 9 and sent that tome back to the library. I read reviews online and read enough spoilers of what plot there was to decide it was just awful.
Maybe someone's writing style can change over 30 years, but I'd certainly hope it wouldn't get worse. It sure didn't read like it was wrote by JMA. It was a totally different writing style; shorter sentences, like bullet points. Some other folks wondered if it was ghost written also.
I truly enjoyed the first book, then started on the 2nd...midway through I realized its mostly about explicit romantic sex...
My intellectual hunger for the series have waned therefrom...
I was annoyed that there really wasn't an ending. I think she filled up so many pages with extraneous stuff, that she just ran out of pages, and the book just ended.
That's the thing that didn't ring true with me. Even though it wasn't an overt suicide attempt, it was one of those "I don't care what happens to me; I'm just taking this stuff and I want the pain to go away" things.
Knowing the character through 6 books, she was a survivor no matter what, and I think that even losing (the annoying) Jondalar would not drive her to not wanting to live. She would want to live for her daughter at the very least. I guess I could possibly buy that it was post partum depression from the misscarriage, but it's still a stretch.
They should have had a ghostwriter finish the series.
If the series had been planned for more than 6 books, at this rate they'd have to have an actual ghost write the rest of the books, since Jean Auel (along with most of us readers) would be dead.
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