Prehistoric or pre Columbus books to recommend? (novels, cover, best)
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Im looking for something along the lines of Auel, Gear, or Sarabande, or related, for books about American Indians pre European invasion.
I am looking for books that go into greater detail about everyday life, like Auel does, rather than stories set in prehistory that really dont get into life in prehistoric times much but merely use it as a backdrop for a romance or hero story or such.
Give the Gears a try. Their People of the ... series of books start with an archaeological digging site and then create a back story based upon the dig site's finds. Here's a link to their series on Goodreads.
Starting reading the Gears already. Have read 2 or 3 and enjoy them. I was trying to find out if there is anything similar out there for when I run through them in a few years.
Heck, I even enjoy the White Indian series, not because the stories are great literature, but because they go into details of everyday life among Indians very often.
Not that it is as early A series but the Eskkar and Trella novels about civilization in the Fertile Crescent/Bronze Age has been interesting reading for me...5 or so novels about the growth of a city and family dynasty...
Maybe Sue Harrison's Mother Earth Father Sky. I haven't read it yet but have added it to my TBR list.
I had never heard of the book but looked it up as a result of this thread. I ended up buying the trilogy. I am 92% through the trilogy. I have mixed feelings about the book. The story was, oddly enough, enough to make me keep wanting to read it, but at the same time there was a lack of depth or sophistication to the language. It's missing some thoughtful kind of thing. I read in some reviews that it might be intended for young adult audiences so maybe that's why I have mixed feelings.
I'm finishing up a book by the Gears, and I planned to order Mother Earth Father Sky from the library for my next read. I'll let you know what I think when I read it.
I'm finishing up a book by the Gears, and I planned to order Mother Earth Father Sky from the library for my next read. I'll let you know what I think when I read it.
I'm thinking Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson might be a better read than Mother Earth, Father Sky. I read the sample when it first came out and really liked it but I was waiting for the price to go down and then I forgot about it. Anyway, it's pre-history and even though I haven't read the book yet, it is probably worth mentioning in this thread.
(Which is not to say that Mother Earth, Father Sky is a bad book. I did find it a page-turner because I wanted to find out what happened. I just didn't find that mysterious depth of voice that lifts a book out of the realm of the ordinary.)
I had never heard of the book but looked it up as a result of this thread. I ended up buying the trilogy. I am 92% through the trilogy. I have mixed feelings about the book. The story was, oddly enough, enough to make me keep wanting to read it, but at the same time there was a lack of depth or sophistication to the language. It's missing some thoughtful kind of thing. I read in some reviews that it might be intended for young adult audiences so maybe that's why I have mixed feelings.
I'm only about a third of the way through the novel. I've noticed that the punctuation can be a bit strange at times -- to the extent that it pulls me out of the novel to reread the sentence. For example, this sentence was so disjointed:
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The roof hole was sealed with a square of driftwood chunks bound together with nettle twine, something, unlike babiche, birds and small animals would not eat.
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