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Title: Sadly, a disappointment
Review: Jean Auel's "Earth's Children" series would have been limited to a single novel had "Clan of the Cave Bear" been written in the same tedious fashion. Ms. Auel's eagerly awaited fifth novel of the series, "The Shelters of Stone" is a study in excrutiating, minutiae. The reader makes progress across this vast and wonderous landscape with a magnifying glass, never seeing anything beyond the short focus of the lens. I confess to quitting the book after 260 odd pages. Ms. Auel is, in my opioion, an incredibly talented author, otherwise, I would have quit 100 pages sooner. Perhaps this was a 100 page novel that was filled with an additional 600 pages of very finely crafted descriptive verbage. I guess I'll never know.
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