I hold in my hand a copy of JEAN AUEL's THE LAND OF ThE PAINTED CAVES

[Lonnie]

and YESSSSS Im so blinking excited I cant begin to describe it...

(anyone else??))

It's on Kindle. But at £10.99 it breaks my Kindle rule of not buying things that cost excessive amounts.

They have me over a barrel.

oh read faster you lot

i have Things To Say

BlingLoving just buy it, you can be reading it in 30 seconds

I'll try my best I have an essay to write this weekend, so reading time is limited...that said it is Friday and I could have a beer and book night just for me early bedtime I think.

Babies - you are bad. I'm buying it. It's your fault. And as I never bought hard covers except for these, I may as well continue the tradition of paying over the odds.

(and frankly, whoever at Amazon came up with the strategy must be very very popular over there now. I always spent a lot of money with them but now... sigh. Money comes in. bills get paid. And then really, I should just hand over the rest of my cash to Amazon).

He He. Glad to help. :)

The only reason I don't hand my wage over to Amazon is I don't currently have one, once I return to work I will send my wage straight to Amazon.

MayorNaze, No spoilers but tell us, is it good ?

hmmm

is worth reading

ish

jump maryz

just jump

[grin

So which of the books do you like best so far? Which least? And how does no. 6 compare?

My order is:
1
3 & 2 equal
5
4 - found this one tedious tbh. Whole sections of text seemed to be cut and pasted.

Haven't started 6 yet - will do tonight.

Hmmmm, I think I stopped after 3 or 4 cos I couldn't find the next one, but I have occasionally pondered making the effort to start the series up again. With a new book out, I guess now is a good time!

1 2 and 3 are good

think i actually like 2 best

4 ok

5 meh

i do get the urge to weave baskets and gather random plants after reading these

jondalar is a bit of girl really isn't he? huge member aside of course

he is a norty norty boy in no 6, you'd never believe it

oh come on read quicker

40 copies were reserved in my waterstones

someone else must have nearly finished

Finished it (on Kindle)

It's quite meh really, you can tell she didn't really want to bother finishing off the series.

oh at last

yes i agree

is a real shame

it nearly got good with the outlaws

but the bit with marona was just crap

and OMG how many caves??? how many??? i'm all for the art, but honestly...

She didn't develop the characters at all, in fact A&J behave out of character in that last section, both of them.

The whole book is disjointed and endlessly repetitive. We know how to make tea now, and how Wolf greets people, we don't need to be told.

If you hated Shelters of Stone you won't like this any better.

before she was through
her children loved too

YES WE KNOW

I didn't hate it though, I read the whole thing without skipping bits (tempting though it was in the caves section)

It was just a bit disappointing.

oh i agree totally,actually, i was just venting in relief that someone else had read it

it was just annoying to keep reading and reading "cave...tea...wolf....horses...zelandoni...cave...tea...wolf...horses...zelandoni"

not very well edited IMVHO

oh based on your posts, I am disappointed and I haven't even started no 6 yet. And now I have had too much to bother with it tonight.

Was yummy wine. Almost as good as Marthona's .

Will need a hangover tomorrow morning... best potter off to the garden and collect some herbs in my otter skin pouch If only I had the medicinal knowledge not to poison myself.

oh do read it

is worth a look

just don't expect The Answers to all your questions

and also expect the cave-man version of an art gallery tour. a detailed one

Only just started this one. Managed to get the book cover model thingy to work, but it was a bit of an anti-climax. Struggling to work out who everyone is- don't like these Zelandoni names

oh i couldn't be arsed with the book cover thingy

far far too much faff for me

Oh dear. Now we've got to the disfunctional family who don't look after their kids. If they are like the DF in all the other books they'll be singing Ayla's praises ere long and standing up for her in the face of opposition from other Caves (yawn)

It seems to be the exact same story in a new setting. Another Summer Meeting as well. How original

oh god the dysfunctional family

it will get much much worse

and icky