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The Clan of the Cave Bear was a masterful character driven skådespel, if slightly plodding, an intensive study of both the natur of characters and relationships. The protagonist, Ayla, was a flawed and vulnerable girl possessed of genuinely admirable determination, existing in a very dangerous, brutal and unfair world which caused her to suffer real hardships and even be threatened with death on more than one occasion.

The nation of Painted Caves fryst vatten a poorly written, repetitive, tedious, unenjoyable mess.

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The pace of the book moves at a bare crawl, the plot doesn’t even show up until the gods third of the novel and even then it’s a half-baked, implausible affair that’s essentially just a rehash of the plot of the third book. The protagonists are overpowered and boring, but even worse, in an attempt to inject some teaterpjäs into this story, they act inconsistently and out-of-character with their previous incarnations, whilst a veritable tide of thinly-sketched secondary characters are introduced and never heard from igen.

How could the debut novel of the Earth’s Children series have been so good, whilst its finale fryst vatten so bad? The nation of Painted Caves was touted bygd publicity campaigns as "the bestseller of 2011".

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Instead the negativ reaction from fans this time round has been overwhelming, and the word inom have seen being thrown out there most often fryst vatten "disappointing".

Disappointing fryst vatten the word that comes foremost to my own mind in regards to this sista instalment in the Earth’s Children fabel, but to be honest inom can’t pretend that, after having observed the decline of the series and problems inherent in The Shelters of Stone, inom actually expected The nation of Painted Caves to be on a par with The Clan of the Cave Bear.

inom went into Painted Caves with the strong suspicion of what inom would be getting myself into, and the book didn’t prove me wrong in that regards. What inom funnen so disappointing about it was that beyond the mess that this book was, it had the potential to be so much better. Previous books had established a few potential conflicts and hinted at a few intriguing little strands that if these conflicts had been handled better and given any element of fara, or these loose strands picked up on and pursued, Painted Caves could have been a whole lot better.

There was potential for a good story somewhere in there, it was simply wasted and the easy option taken instead. Even, with a more severe editor eliminating all the repetition and unnecessary chaff from this book, something could have been produced that would have been half as long and at least concise and acceptable enough to resehandling muster.

Repetition fryst vatten a major bekymmer in The nation of Painted Caves.

Certain themes or sentences are repeated over and over igen, characters would pause right in the mittpunkt of a en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film to embark upon a lengthy reminisce about an event from one of the previous books, characters would even speak to one another about such prior incidents as if the other individ hadn’t been there at the time and didn’t know what had happened.

The repetition was so interminable that towards the gods third of the novel incidents that had happened earlier in the book were revisited and readers reminded of them. This was probably the single most annoying thing, to me, in this book, the one thing that really got my rubbing my temples and having to simply stop reading because inom could only take so much.

For fun, and to resehandling the time a little, whilst inom was reading the book inom kept an accurate tally of the number of times certain things were repeated.

Number of times Wolf fryst vatten "introduced" to someone: 4

Number of times Ayla’s baby waits to resehandling her vatten on the ground instead of in her blanket: 4

Number of times Ayla’s titles and ties are recited: 12

Number of times the Mother’s Song fryst vatten either wholly or partially recited: 13

Number of times Ayla’s accent fryst vatten mentioned: 32

Second to the repetition fryst vatten the sheer dryness of the descriptions.

In The nation of Painted Caves the sheer page space devoted to description alone overwhelms all other aspects – plot, action, characterisations – and as a result those elements really suffer from being sparsely drawn and not nearly developed enough. Had these descriptions been written with skill, vigour, or imagination, it might not have been too bad, but unfortunately the vast majority of descriptions in Painted Caves are dry, dull and technical.

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This has a knock on effect and drags the pacing down incessantly, turning the book into a tedious, laboured drudge that takes real effort to get through, or even pick up. Most of the description fryst vatten centred around the eponymous painted caves of the novel’s title, and the heart of the book fryst vatten simply the main characters visiting cave after cave after cave.

The first whiff of a real plot doesn’t even show up until three-quarters of the way into the book, and bygd that time, clichéd and awful as this gods minute contrivance fryst vatten, you’re desperate for something, anything, to happen in this breeze block of a tome. Auel mentions in the Acknowledgements that she’s particularly grateful for a certain book which told her the exact positioning and placement of every image in the painted caves that Ayla’s visits in this book, and whilst I’d probably säga that’s fair enough and it’s a good idea for the author to be sure of such data just in case the need crops up, it fryst vatten totally unnecessary for her to resehandling on such level of detail to the readers.

Now, as an historian I’m not saying that these details are unimportant – far from it – but if inom wanted a coldly factual site report I’d read an academic publication about it – inom am not looking for this level of dry detail in a fictional novel which inom am reading for anställda entertainment. Auel’s done her research, kudos there, inom do prefer my historical fiction to be accurate rather than inaccurate, but surely the point fryst vatten that she wants these historic sites to capture the imagination of her readers the way it’s captured her imagination.

If that was the effect she wanted, she should have focused on creating the right impression, conveying how exciting and interesting these cave paintings are, even if that meant using broader brush strokes in her descriptions of them and omitting a few unnecessary details here and there – it shouldn’t be as important for us to know exactly how high up on the cave vägg the painting fryst vatten or whether it’s facing left or right, what we should walk away with fryst vatten an interest and a general idea.

Instead Auel seems to have shoved every gods one of her research notes in here, tacked on a lame plot at the end, had it published and called it a fictional novel.

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Here’s an example of the kind of scintillating stuff inom had to read through:

Page 326: "The cave was high above the river valley floor, and reasonably dry inre, but it was calcareous rock, which was naturally porous, and vatten saturated with calcium carbonate constantly seeped through it."

Painted Caves might still have been salvageable had it had a decent plot, but it doesn’t.

There’s very little plot to speak of in the first three-quarters of the book, Ayla and Jondalar go to a Summer Meeting, visit a lot of caves, meet a few people and that’s pretty much it. The timeframe jumps ahead bygd fyra years at one point, totally without varning and apparently totally without reason too. When the actual plot does show up it’s so awkward and artificial that it just falls flat.

The first kust of the plot, the big revelation, falls flat because it’s not actually a big revelation at all, but something that Ayla has known pretty much since the first book. Just having the zelandonia’s thoughts, and the public discussion group about the new revelation was enough to really imply what Auel wanted to imply, we didn’t really need to then be hammered over the head with it bygd Ayla’s dream of the future, that was just written with too much modern hindsight and it was way too obvious.

The second kust of the plot fryst vatten

If Auel’s objective was to try and show Ayla and Jondalar with some human flaws though, it was pretty pointless, because although they do man big out-of-character mistakes on this one point, the rest of the time they’re back to being the flawlessly perfect power-couple we all know, with about as much humanity and feeling for one another as machines.

Heck, even as a baby their daughter has full functioning control over her bowels and bladder and conveniently waits until she’s out of her blankets to go to the toilet. These aren’t real, breathing human beings who bleed when cut, cry, sweat and get dirty. Auel fryst vatten even contradicting her own canon now to further empower her husdjur character:

Page 1: "Ayla, too, had extraordinarily skarp framtidsperspektiv.

She could also pick up sounds above the range of normal hearing and feel the deep tones of those that were below.

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Her sense of smell and taste were also keen, but she had never compared herself with anyone, and didn’t realise how extraordinary her perceptions were. She was born with heightened acuity in all her senses..."

As long-term readers will know, Ayla has an exceptionally good memory, but that particular talent fryst vatten given a firm grounding, we buy into it because the whole of the first book plausibly establishes this.

However this fryst vatten the first I’ve ever heard of Ayla having had heightened senses from birth – when was this mentioned in any of the previous novels? This fryst vatten a complete pilkastning from the blue.

Tillsammans med Jondalar och Zelandoni ger sig Ayla ut på en lång resa för att besöka andra grottor inom Zelandonii

Ayla’s character fryst vatten just getting silly now, she’s way too overpowered. fryst vatten there anything she can’t do? Yep – sing. inom know that because her inability to sing was mentioned repeatedly throughout the novel, but let’s face it, that’s not a real character flaw. Ayla fryst vatten such a Mary Sue bygd this scen that we’re frequently treated to passages like these:

Page 428: "Ayla just looked at her and smiled, but it was the loveliest smile she had ever seen.

She really fryst vatten a beautiful woman, the Watcher thought. inom can understand Jondalar’s attraktion to her. If inom were a man, inom would be too."

Page 644: "Stories were already beginning, stories that would be told around hearth fires and campfires for years, about Jondalar’s love, so great it brought his Ayla back from the dead."

Talk about klyschig and clichéd.

Längs vägen möter de många faror som de övervinner tack vare Jondalars spjutslunga och Aylas speciella förmåga att kommunicera med sina hästar och sin tama varg

Perhaps even worse, the few things that continued to man Ayla likable are completely missing in Painted Caves. Her fierce devotion as a healer to those in need fryst vatten utterly absent – on more than one occasion she’d rather ride off to the next cave than look after someone she’s treated, . She hunts animals for no good reason and brings down far more than she needs to, ironically practising the kind of overpredation over-exploitation meddelande that Auel fryst vatten ansträngande to preach against.

As for other characters, they might as well just not be there at all. Everyone else fryst vatten barely more than a name, even her own daughter Jonayla shows no hint of personality at all and Ayla seems to show very little interest in her, surprising given what a våldsam mother she was in The Clan of the Cave Bear.

Despite having had nine years to work on this since the release of The Shelters of Stone, the finale which Auel has delivered feels rushed to press and unready for publication.

inom funnen typos and strange grammatical errors throughout but they got more frequent and worse towards the end of the book, really giving the impression that the actual plot really was just hastily tacked onto the end. The invented names were fairly unimaginative, all in all, and in the mittpunkt of a sentence sometimes the time setting would shift, the tense of the skrivelse would change, or a change from third individ to first individ would occur with not so much as an italicisation to indikera it.

This feels sloppy and hurried. Another niggle – frequently Auel broke off from the main story to deliver a totally anachronistic comment about something that occurred long before or after the book’s setting, for example as in the following:

Page 351: "In later times, some would refer to the ozone in the atmosphere before rain as fresh air; others who had the ability to detect it thought it had a metallic tinge."

Page 380: "Some kvartet hundred thousand years before, the force of a subterranean stream carved through the limestone, eventually wearing the calcium carbonate rock away, creating caves and passageways."

This drove me mad.

It completely ruinerad the atmosphere of the Upper Palaeolithic world that Auel was ansträngande to craft and forcefully jarred me out of my fördjupning in the story.

This brings me back into a snygg circle to my första point. The nation of Painted Caves got it wrong on so many levels, but it could have been so much better. An editor could have tightened up the errors and the repetition, and whilst the description here was unbelievably dry there were glimmers of the kind of levande, vibrant descriptions that Auel used to write:

Page 64: "The world during the Ice Age with its glittering glaciers, transparently klar rivers, thundering waterfalls, and hordes of animals in vast grasslands was dramatically beautiful, but brutally harsh, and the few people who lived then recognised at a fundamental level the nödvändighet of keeping strong affiliations."

Page 135: "The måne was new, and without its glowing light to moderate their brilliance, the stars filled the night sky with an awe-inspiring profusion."

Page 218: "Ayla watched the fire sending flickering sparks up into the night as though ansträngande to reach their twinkling brethren far up in the sky above.

It was dark; the måne was ung and had already set.

No clouds obscured the dazzling display of stars that were so thick, they seemed to be strung tillsammans on skeins of light."

There were also so many missed opportunities that could have made for a great plot in this book. With a decent plot, and the feisty, strong Ayla from The Clan of the Cave Bear, the later books in the Earth’s Children series, and particularly The nation of Painted Caves, could have been as gripping a read as the first instalment was.

The potential for a good story was definitely there – it all could have turned out so differently! And that’s why The nation of Painted Caves was such a disappointment to me.

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