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Title: Please -- no more long names!
Review: I am a huge fan of Auel's earlier books. I enjoyed reading about the certain discoveries of Ayla and Jondalar, the descriptions of the landscape, etc. I looked forward to this book for many years, but it did not live up to my expectations.In a 1,000+ page book, the entire goal was to get to the Summer Meeting. It took 700 pages for Jondalar and Ayla to walk into camp, then finally make the journey to the Summer Meeting. What happened in those 700 pages? Not much.However, there were plenty of name recitals: "Ayla of the Zelandonii, daughter of the Cave Bear, wife off Jondalar the Traveller and Flint Napper, friend to Whinny and Racer, subject of boring book, creation of Jean Auel", etc. My guess is that if you took out all of the name recitals, you could knock 100 pages off the book.Sadly, a tedious and uninteresting book. Auel's done much, much better.
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