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Title: Shelters, Shmelters: Call this Stone Soup
Review: This book is MADE of stone--and prehistoric conversation. Endless and infuriating recapitulations, a lethargic pace, non-plot, characters with not a whit of life to them, useless, tedious, drawn-out descriptions of rocks and topography, and worst of all, dialogue that would disgrace one of those softcover books that fifth-graders buy in school. Have I left anything out? I wonder if Jean Auel ever did have anything to offer besides earnestness and a certain tempo. "Clan of the Cave Bear" has been blown up with helium four times, each time with less and less content and more and more pages. I have read every page she's written up to now and I feel foolish for having done so.
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