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Jet
Altar Boy of Jabootu
Australia
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 Posted - 05/12/2006 : 08:54:41 AM
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Yo, it's Jet of the Agony Booth here with an interesting link for you. After reading the review for Clan of the Cave Bear several times, I got hold of a copy of the book and read it. It's quite good in a lot of ways, although Ayla is a hopeless Mary-Sue (even so, I can name several classic books that got away with having Mary Sues as the heroines - eg A Little Princess and Heidi). A lot of things that don't make sense in the movie make sense in the book. Any road, I could list some of them but I don't want to bore ya. Instead I'm posting this link to a detailed recap of the book (yep, they do it for books too). There are a lot of highly amusing recaps on the site, but this one is particularly good and covers all the subsequent titles in the series (apparently they get worse as they go on).
http://qos.enrious.org/index.php?name=Content&pid=74
Hope you like it.
"Seagulls, as the film stresses, subsist on garbage. And, I guess, you are what you eat"
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2006 : 1:16:57 PM
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Nice, I've wanted to read the book a few times, but the two things that kept me from doing it were that the movie sucked so badly and it belongs to a series of several books. I may eventually take a look at them.
BTW, keep the good work at that site of yours, it's among the best bad movie sites in the community, and I had NEVER laughed so hard in my entire life than while reading your thoughs on that Steven Seagal's beverages. Just tell us when the root beer version appears, will you? |
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John Doe
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
91 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2006 : 4:24:14 PM
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I second what Neville said. I found your site originally from a link to your "Overlords of the UFO" review on a skeptics site and stayed to read the rest of your recap/reviews. I especially enjoy the mega reviews, "Gigli" was an instant classic.
my eyes!! the goggles do nothing!! |
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Jet
Altar Boy of Jabootu
Australia
8 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2006 : 05:13:07 AM
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Uh, gosh... nice of you to say. However, when I say I'm 'of the Agony Booth', I just mean that I hang out there. I wrote a guest review which has yet to go up, but I don't own the site. That would be the legendary Albert Walker. He's a cool guy; I'll pass on your comments to him (the Overlords recap is one of my favourites).
"Seagulls, as the film stresses, subsist on garbage. And, I guess, you are what you eat"
-John Simon on Jonathon Livingstone Seagull |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2006 : 03:42:21 AM
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/14/2006 : 2:27:55 PM
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A quick Googling turns up an announcement that the Earth's Children series will have at least two more installments before it's finished. You must be excited.
Reading your reviews, it sounds like Auel seriously padded out her story. I would imagine that the whole series, including the two not yet published, could be condensed into two books: Clan of the Cave Bear and the rest of the series boiled down to one book. Seriously. I mean, I kind of get what went wrong reading the review for Plains of Passage. I get the idea that in her original outline she had the following:
* [clan of cave bear's basic plot]
* Ayla gets a horse and a boyfriend
* they join with a clan of mammoth hunters
* They cross a great wilderness to rejoin her boyfriend's clan.
It sounds like she had this great idea to make a whole novel out of traveling from the mammoth Hunters to the Shelters of stone, but she just didn't think up much to happen in it, so the whole book could be shortened to a paragraph, or a couple pages at the most. |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/14/2006 : 4:46:34 PM
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I've read the reviews of the first two books, which were all I read; I'm pretty much in agreement with the reviewer.
However, I'd give Auel slightly more credit than the reviewer does; the big reason Jondalar doesn't put the moves on Ayla when they first meet is that he assumes she's a chaste religious recluse.
Still, I never bothered to read "Mammoth Hunters," and I'm firmly in agreement with the thesis: the first book was actually pretty darn good; the second was awful.
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We've always been united in stupidity. That's why there is no hope. But, then again, when has that ever stopped us?
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