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I accidentally bought “The Mammoth Hunters” a while ago for a good price considering it was a hella old copy, but I’m wanting to read the first book so is “The Clan of the Cave Bear” any good???

I’m currently reading The Plains Passages actually. Lol.

I have mix feelings about the series. Clan of the cave bear is good but some of the science is outdated, since it was published in 1980. But for the time Auel did her research and as the books go on she puts more and more research and she shows her work.

It’s the rest of the series is where I get mixed. I enjoy the world Auel creates. The more the books go on (granted I have two books to go after Plain of Passage) it becomes more about the world and Ayla and Jondalar are the people she decided to use to explore it. There are info dumps about prehistoric creatures and prehistoric humans.

I like Ayla but yeah I get the Mary Sue argument. But she’s such a kind heart I forgive it.

Jondalar is ummm Mister Rochester ish. He gets questionable. He is less forgivable.

Mammoth Hunters is so far the worse, it’s not bad but very average. It just went on and on with an additional of a love triangle I did not care about. Especially since you knew who she was going to pick. The whole plot I’m yelling just talk to each other!

Auel isn’t the best with plot.

Also the sequels the obsession with sex which to me is very annoying to me.

And there’s a terrifying rape scene in the first one.

Aaaahh I’ve heard of that scene in the first one. That’s what I don’t look forward to (I didn’t look forward to it when I read “Daughter of the Forest” by Juliet Marillier), but the idea of a book set in prehistoric times is really interesting, so I want to give it a try. Suffering through some writer’s block so hopefully that will help. If I do end up buying Clan, I’ll keep you updated (and I’m definitely going to live blog while reading 😂)

If you’re looking for books set in prehistory may I suggest the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver. It’s an awesome historical fantasy series set 6000 years ago and she’s done a huge amount of research but there are no infodumps like you get in Auel’s books, it’s all worked into the story really nicely and there’s awesome characters. Also if you like wolves, one of the main characters is literally a wolf called Wolf, and he’s adorable.

She’s also done a series called Gods and Warriors which is equally awesome but set in the Bronze Age around Greece and Egypt, that one has a lion character… and a falcon and a dolphin. Paver likes her animals.

Oh!! I’ve heard of the Gods and Warriors series! But I never got a chance to read it. I’m definitely going to check Paver out, I didn’t know she had done a prehistory series as well, thank you!!

That series sounds good.

The only problem with Michelle Paver ia that only one bookshop (that I know of here in my city) has only the first book of Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

Aw that’s a shame. Any chance you could order it online? I’m pretty sure there all on Kindle. Oh and if you have Audible there’s an audiobook version read by Sir Ian Mckellen!

WAIT

I found a book store that has them! Granted in Spanish but it has them nonetheless!! A bit on the expensive side, but I’ll save up for the first one and build up from there 😂

Awesome! Let me know what you think when you’re done :D

I accidentally bought “The Mammoth Hunters” a while ago for a good price considering it was a hella old copy, but I’m wanting to read the first book so is “The Clan of the Cave Bear” any good???

I’m currently reading The Plains Passages actually. Lol.

I have mix feelings about the series. Clan of the cave bear is good but some of the science is outdated, since it was published in 1980. But for the time Auel did her research and as the books go on she puts more and more research and she shows her work.

It’s the rest of the series is where I get mixed. I enjoy the world Auel creates. The more the books go on (granted I have two books to go after Plain of Passage) it becomes more about the world and Ayla and Jondalar are the people she decided to use to explore it. There are info dumps about prehistoric creatures and prehistoric humans.

I like Ayla but yeah I get the Mary Sue argument. But she’s such a kind heart I forgive it.

Jondalar is ummm Mister Rochester ish. He gets questionable. He is less forgivable.

Mammoth Hunters is so far the worse, it’s not bad but very average. It just went on and on with an additional of a love triangle I did not care about. Especially since you knew who she was going to pick. The whole plot I’m yelling just talk to each other!

Auel isn’t the best with plot.

Also the sequels the obsession with sex which to me is very annoying to me.

And there’s a terrifying rape scene in the first one.

Aaaahh I’ve heard of that scene in the first one. That’s what I don’t look forward to (I didn’t look forward to it when I read “Daughter of the Forest” by Juliet Marillier), but the idea of a book set in prehistoric times is really interesting, so I want to give it a try. Suffering through some writer’s block so hopefully that will help. If I do end up buying Clan, I’ll keep you updated (and I’m definitely going to live blog while reading 😂)

If you’re looking for books set in prehistory may I suggest the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver. It’s an awesome historical fantasy series set 6000 years ago and she’s done a huge amount of research but there are no infodumps like you get in Auel’s books, it’s all worked into the story really nicely and there’s awesome characters. Also if you like wolves, one of the main characters is literally a wolf called Wolf, and he’s adorable.

She’s also done a series called Gods and Warriors which is equally awesome but set in the Bronze Age around Greece and Egypt, that one has a lion character… and a falcon and a dolphin. Paver likes her animals.

Oh!! I’ve heard of the Gods and Warriors series! But I never got a chance to read it. I’m definitely going to check Paver out, I didn’t know she had done a prehistory series as well, thank you!!

That series sounds good.

The only problem with Michelle Paver ia that only one bookshop (that I know of here in my city) has only the first book of Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

Aw that’s a shame. Any chance you could order it online? I’m pretty sure there all on Kindle. Oh and if you have Audible there’s an audiobook version read by Sir Ian Mckellen!

I accidentally bought “The Mammoth Hunters” a while ago for a good price considering it was a hella old copy, but I’m wanting to read the first book so is “The Clan of the Cave Bear” any good???

I’m currently reading The Plains Passages actually. Lol.

I have mix feelings about the series. Clan of the cave bear is good but some of the science is outdated, since it was published in 1980. But for the time Auel did her research and as the books go on she puts more and more research and she shows her work.

It’s the rest of the series is where I get mixed. I enjoy the world Auel creates. The more the books go on (granted I have two books to go after Plain of Passage) it becomes more about the world and Ayla and Jondalar are the people she decided to use to explore it. There are info dumps about prehistoric creatures and prehistoric humans.

I like Ayla but yeah I get the Mary Sue argument. But she’s such a kind heart I forgive it.

Jondalar is ummm Mister Rochester ish. He gets questionable. He is less forgivable.

Mammoth Hunters is so far the worse, it’s not bad but very average. It just went on and on with an additional of a love triangle I did not care about. Especially since you knew who she was going to pick. The whole plot I’m yelling just talk to each other!

Auel isn’t the best with plot.

Also the sequels the obsession with sex which to me is very annoying to me.

And there’s a terrifying rape scene in the first one.

Aaaahh I’ve heard of that scene in the first one. That’s what I don’t look forward to (I didn’t look forward to it when I read “Daughter of the Forest” by Juliet Marillier), but the idea of a book set in prehistoric times is really interesting, so I want to give it a try. Suffering through some writer’s block so hopefully that will help. If I do end up buying Clan, I’ll keep you updated (and I’m definitely going to live blog while reading 😂)

#coad #chronicles of ancient darkness #michelle paver #gods and warriors

If you’re looking for books set in prehistory may I suggest the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver. It’s an awesome historical fantasy series set 6000 years ago and she’s done a huge amount of research but there are no infodumps like you get in Auel’s books, it’s all worked into the story really nicely and there’s awesome characters. Also if you like wolves, one of the main characters is literally a wolf called Wolf, and he’s adorable.

She’s also done a series called Gods and Warriors which is equally awesome but set in the Bronze Age around Greece and Egypt, that one has a lion character... and a falcon and a dolphin. Paver likes her animals.

Happy Beltane!

mr-merlin

colin morgan in ‘parked’ 9/∞

Happy Equinox!

mr-merlin

colin morgan in ‘parked’ 1/∞

scathachbeag

My sister works in a hotel in Dublin that’s popular with the foreigners and she had a Texan give out to her because the colchie that she is saying tis and twas and twill be and grand shure and he said that nobody says tis anymore, it’s 1800s well I’m sorry Mr Texan Man but the only Yall that we know is a Cork town by the sea and it’s spelt properly and we don’t say silly things like y'all’d’ve so you can go shove it up yer arse

nothing-but-our-own-red-blood

This is culchie culture tbh

angrbodic

Huh.

paulinegrintt

Bradley James in Lewis (Part 5)

+ bonus

maryluis

CathalO'Regan(Parked)xJackRoth(Lewis)….?

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

thecottageinthedark

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

palindromordnilap-deactivated20

fuck OFF

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

tokensouthernbelle

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing

stillwaterseas

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big.