Such a lengthy series
Posted by Slitheytove1031@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 208 comments
Have you read all of them ? I think I made it through the first four. Do kids still read as much as we did ? I know the Harry Potter series was lengthy but, what else ? And what other series did you read through in your youth ?
BlueMoon5k@reddit
The first Mary Sue. Even back when I read them it seemed implausible she thought of everything. It did make me aware that humans have invented the same things in different cultures. So that was good. Thought the birth control tea was imaginary until I recently learned about how Romans used it so much it went extinct.
Once it turned into nothing but archeological notes I stopped reading. Did anything else happen after they made it over the glacier?
ElectrostaticHotwave@reddit
They had a baby that could signal when she needed to pee as an infant, walked super early and was just downright amazing. Ayla became a wise woman and wowed the tribe with her fire making stone.
I read the later books just to finish the story around the time they came out, and these are things that I remember. I read with a huge amount of side eye. Mary Sue indeed. The epic prehistoric sex romp across Europe became ridiculous the further on the story went.
BlueMoon5k@reddit
Thank you!
Having never potty trained a child the whole “baby signals when it needs to pee” raises a whole lot of questions. My knowledge of baby biology is limited to that nerve that signals your brain about your bladder isn’t active for many months.
Pure-Tension-1185@reddit
Oh dude I just started Valley of the Horses
seven-cents@reddit
Absolutely brilliant series! Your reminder makes me want to read them again!
classicsat@reddit
That Douglas Adams Trilogy. At least four books of it.
Michelledvm99@reddit
I loved those books back in the day, but good grief, how plausible is it that Ayla invents EVERYTHING?!
IfICouldStay@reddit
That was my complaint. Single handedly domesticates wolves, horses and cats (sorta), invents sewing, and musical instruments (maybe?). She’s an engineer, a physician, has eidetic memory and is tall and blonde and gorgeous. 🙄
quasifun@reddit
And looks like Daryl Hannah, she's got everything
bakedin@reddit
She had everything but telepathy. ;)
shirleyismydog@reddit
She did have that mind meld thing with Creb when she drank the stuff she made for that ceremony...but hey, she didn't invent it. Ugh.
MammothFromHell@reddit
She invented the bra AND had the perfect vagina, you can't forget that!
IfICouldStay@reddit
And all the other girls are jealous.
MammothFromHell@reddit
...I just remembered she also invited the mirror
fruitysoapsforthee@reddit
And she could take a long dick better than any other woman
IfICouldStay@reddit
Oh right. Jondalar doesn’t need to “hold back” with her. She can take his mighty cock and virility.
fruitysoapsforthee@reddit
"Oh Ayla!" "Oh Jondalar!" x200 pages
Wetschera@reddit
The Pleistocene wolf was different from the grey wolf.
Although cats have been domesticated more than once, it still all happened where she couldn’t have been if she was domesticating wolves into dogs.
The sewing needle came out of Africa. She couldn’t not have done that at all.
There are plenty of reasons to be annoyed about that kind of thing in these books.
newhappyrainbow@reddit
Not to split hairs, because I agree with you, but she doesn’t come up with the “thread puller” until she meets an African (Ranec in The Mammoth Hunters). Auel at least gave a nod to the history, though Ayla doesn’t learn it from him, just creates it after meeting him.
Wetschera@reddit
The needle was super established when it came out of Africa. It came with clothing and many other things that need to be sewn.
The evidence for needles always comes with what they can do. It would be very difficult to live in a cold climate without sewn items. Neanderthals could live in cold climates, but not the warm climate that humans brought the needle to. The needle is a huge deal. The evidence for it and why a different species of humans wouldn’t have it is a big deal.
newhappyrainbow@reddit
Was that the awl/punch type sewing or the “eyed” needle that Ayla “invents”?
I’m not arguing, genuinely interested.
Wetschera@reddit
The eye of the needle is the important part.
An awl has a handle and doesn’t have to have an eye.
dancegoddess1971@reddit
Cats are still barely domesticated. Source: I have a feline overlord. Well, lady, but my point stands. Cat does what she wants. I, generally, do what she wants. Lol. If anything, they domesticated us.
Wetschera@reddit
Cats can be trained just like dogs. They just aren’t dogs. So, they don’t need to have the same kind of training.
Zardozin@reddit
The argument was that someone poised between two cultures is more likely to invent things as they are more used to adopting new ideas, yeah, that lasted for a couple of books
anotherkeebler@reddit
“Man, I’ve really written myself into a corner here. If only something like drums, or Star Trek phasers, or gas chromatography had been invented by the time of my setting. Now, which one of those seems most plausible?”
AQUEON@reddit
The sewing one had me going, "mmm-hmmm" sure. LOL
heavinglory@reddit
I believed it, she was a baller.
Feeling-Ad-2490@reddit
And called Pai Mei and Old Fool
BetMyLastKrispyKreme@reddit
Didn’t she “invent” brassieres, too?
IfICouldStay@reddit
Probably
seriousname65@reddit
You forgot fire stones, as well as saving neanderthals' legacy through her halfbreed son.
Affectionate-Dot437@reddit
For the same reason I got tired of the Outlander series, "Is Clare going to meet EVERY notable figure in history?"
IfICouldStay@reddit
At least in that case she has foreknowledge of important events and people.
FrostbiteF@reddit
Wait until you find out about Jesus.
nik_h_75@reddit
In my family (we all loved clan) - the running joke was that in Valley she invented everything except the atomic bomb.
opilino@reddit
I know, I LOVED it tho lol.
Feeling-Ad-2490@reddit
Book 6: Ayla perfects the Hohmann Transfer and visits the Moon.
Baconmacka@reddit
Came here to say exactly this.
GraphicDesignMonkey@reddit
She got Mary Sue'd so badly, by the end I was fed up.
TittyTwistahh@reddit
She invented the blowjob
manyhippofarts@reddit
She DID do that.
MLTDione@reddit
😆😆😆
jonny_mal@reddit
She was Forrest Gump before Forrest Gump
tcs06@reddit
It's a prehistoric Forrest Gump
Novagurl@reddit
I still randomly think about how she figured out to make a sewing needle out of a bone. 😂
CraigLake@reddit
Toothbrush out of a stick 😂
Lopsided-Painting752@reddit
they had her inventing all kinds of things, it was hilarious
roastedcinnamon@reddit
THIS EXACTLY
Trudi1201@reddit
I loved these, was disappointed with the last one in the series
Jinglemoon@reddit
It’s unreadably bad unfortunately. I felt so sad that she ended the series like that. Impossibly dull, endless cave descriptions, and tea making. No resolution of hanging story lines. It was super annoying to read.
quiltsohard@reddit
My theory is she wrote the beginning in her young feminist years and ended the series as a religious near death grandma. She basically turns independent strong Ayla into whiny shell of herself. I hated it. Plus the last book could have been 300 pages shorter if she stopped repeating the “mothers song”
Parma_Violence_@reddit
I got so sick of the"mothers song" being repeated over and over and getting LONGER. I turned the page and saw it again and threw the book across the room. It was such a long wait for the final book and it was so bad it made me genuinely angry when i finally slogged through it.
Trudi1201@reddit
Yes! I was so excited after all the years of waiting and it was such a disjointed, disappointing collection of words that didn't belong on the same page.
I've never been so let down by a book as that.
TheVoicesOfBrian@reddit
I could not finish it. It was awful. I don't know if Auel even wrote it or if she had a stroke or what.
Suitable_Ad4114@reddit
I read the last two books and thought, "Auel is dead. Her son wrote this." Nothing about it suggested Jean Auel's voice at all.
copperfrog42@reddit
The last one was so bad! I wanted to throw the ereader I was using into the pool! I didn't, it was my mom's...
Magerimoje@reddit
That fucking song/poem that was repeated again and again and again. Ugh.
Snarkan_sas@reddit
Just wrote the same thing!
copperfrog42@reddit
I reminded me of when I had to keep a creative writing journal in high school. I kept writing poems to take up space, and my teacher told me to please write some longer stuff...
annissamazing@reddit
I bought the last book right when it came out while at an airport just before a six hour flight. I still haven’t finished it.
ericrz@reddit
YES. The last one was garbage.
copperfrog42@reddit
She really phoned it in with the last two or three books. There were SO MANY subplots she could have gone with, what she did was an insult to the readers that had made it that far.
ericrz@reddit
Yep. Really disappointing.
newhappyrainbow@reddit
I think Auel got super involved in her research and forgot she was supposed to be telling a story. I’m a huge fan but Painted Caves was absolutely garbage.
Chance-Chain8819@reddit
Yup. I used to regularly reread the series. I was so excited for he last book, and so disappointed when I finished it. I haven't read any of the books since, as I can't face reading the last one again. It ruined the whole series for me.
CynicalOne_313@reddit
The last book pissed me off so bad. I'd read the entire series, had a feeling that's where the plot was going...and really? REALLY?!
LilJourney@reddit
The last book was definitely NOT worth the long wait for it!
OhThatMrsStone@reddit
But such a good series.
HeWritesALine@reddit
This series was great until the last two. Then it was mostly people introducing themselves. And if I have to read the mother’s song one more time I will throw up.
Al’s this series was instrumental for me to want to learn about foraging plants. I wanted to be like Ayla who knew the uses for everything. Then I re-read the series and the plant she mostly talks about is the very common burdock.
quiltsohard@reddit
The mothers song and explaining Wolf every single time they meet someone which is ALL the time!
mtempissmith@reddit
Actually there are more in the Earth's Children Saga...
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Shelters of Stone
The Land of Painted Caves
Yes, I read them all back in the day.
AQUEON@reddit
I have all the hardbacks on my book shelf. I read them all years ago as well.
oracleoflove@reddit
I have the collection too. I haven’t finished the last 2 books tho.
AQUEON@reddit
As i recall, there was a lot of filler. I skimmed A LOT! I did want to find out what happened though, so slogged through.
Perhaps I'll pick them up again this winter. :)
quiltsohard@reddit
Don’t do it. Stop at book 4 and consider it a win. I’m sad I ever read those last 2 books
medusamagpie@reddit
I read these in high school. Some parts were boring, yes but overall I loved them.
MistySteele332@reddit
Spoilers:
I’ve read them all years ago. Recently I bought the first one on audiobook because I have a long commute then decided to get the second one because I remembered it as the best in the series and really enjoyed listening to them. I decided to get 3rd one and can honestly say I’m done with them for a long while. It was a slog to get through it. The story just dragged on and on. One day I might get the 4th but am dreading when I get to my least favorite part that involves men getting enslaved, don’t remember which book but definitely remember hating the story line. I far prefer hearing what they do to survive in that world much more than some of the convoluted dramas.
LilJourney@reddit
Yeah, I think it's fine to stop the series after the Mammoth Hunters. It really goes downhill from there.
Parma_Violence_@reddit
She shouldve stayed with Ranec and the Mamutoi. Fuck Jondalar.
CynicalOne_313@reddit
Mammoth Hunters was my favorite one.
Upset_Peace_6739@reddit
It wouldn’t have been so long if all the pleasures were deleted. It just went on and on. I’m no prude and enjoy erotic scenes/storylines but it just went on for pages and pages.
And yea the Ayla is the mother of all humanity and all things come from her was a bit much.
Parma_Violence_@reddit
Ayla and Jondalars mammoth porn role-playing games were reaaaallly unnecessary. Auels not even bothering to hide her ice age fetishes
ExaminationNo9186@reddit
I think the editor need to ask the author about how long the sex scenes really needing to go for.
I think i was skipping at least half a chapter at a time just to get back to the actual plot
Uppity_Schniggs@reddit
Loved that series.
saint_ryan@reddit
I’m pretty sure the 3rd book got a 3 boner rating back in the day.
looselyhuman@reddit
When I learned about the current cuckolding fetish, my mind went immediately to that book.
jonathandhalvorson@reddit
Yep. My first exposure to graphically described rape in literature. I was at the tender age of 13, I think, and not quite ready for it.
CandOrMD@reddit
Agreed. I read the book at about the same age, and to this day that passage will pop back into my head now and then. It's pretty much all I remember from the book \~40 years later. Very dark and icky.
bumbumboleji@reddit
Yeah the cave of the clan bear rape description really put me off, I felt like throwing the book away.
Silver_Smoke1925@reddit
Did you read Aztec? Shwing!!
Tamases@reddit
In 10th grade! Great book.
brightlocks@reddit
Bang me Jondalar!
GeoHog713@reddit
We listened to the audio books on a car trip at WAY too young of an age
Hungry-Industry-9817@reddit
There was a scene where one of the brother’s ritually takes a girls virginity. My human sexuality professor copied that part of the book and told her son that that was the way to make love to a woman.
saint_ryan@reddit
Pretty sure Jondalar means “huge swinging dick” in cro-magnon.
Hungry-Industry-9817@reddit
LOL
DDChristi@reddit
I always describe it as prehistoric porn. I was happy to skip over the sex scenes because they were so damn boring and icky. Most of the time I just kept thinking about how much was going on with their mouths when they’d been walking miles covered in fur. Yeah you can clean up afterwards but before? Just a little bit? Please?
reellust@reddit
Great series I think I read it twice if my old GenX brain remembers right.
Bearded_Pip@reddit
And unlike George, SHE FINISHED her series.
Br00klynBelle@reddit
Clan Of the Cave Bear is one of my top 5 favorite novels ever! I fell in love with the book, and ripped through the rest of the series all in one summer. From what I understand, the science in her novels is highly accurate because Jean Auel did extensive research of the topic. So how to make tools, clothes, soap, food, etc, is all accurate to the time. I had such an interest in science and anthropology back then, so the book really interested me on that level.
I do have to say that the rest of the series wasn’t as good as Clan Of the Cave Bear was though, especially the last novel. And don’t even get me started on the horribly awful movie!!!
ivylass@reddit
Long books don't bother me. If the story is engaging I don't care how long it is.
That said, I didn't read the last book. It got more and more Mary Sue that I gave up.
GuyF1966@reddit
I remember when my Dad read this series. He really enjoyed reading it. He named some of his horses after the characters in these books.
zedgrrrl@reddit
I majored in Anthropology because of that series. 20 years later it's still a useless degree but I enjoyed the experience as much as the books.
AngledAwry@reddit
These books took over my life for a year.
NegScenePts@reddit
As a kid I tried to get through Cave Bear but it wasn't for me. Now I bet I would dig that book a lot...except even with my reading glasses it's super hard to focus on book pages for long :(.
themuntik@reddit
I listened to this as an audiobook way back when, it was on soooo many cassettes, and you would only listen to 1 ear at a time, because the right ear had chapter 7 going and the left ear had chapter 9, wild times.
P10pablo@reddit
I read these when I was nine, right after I blew through all of my grandmothers Danielle Steele and Mario Puzo books. Great series.
pinkspatzi@reddit
I was obsessed with "The Flowers in the Attic" series, even after the quality of writing dropped due to ghost writers carrying on after the author's death.
Obsessed, I say.
Haisha4sale@reddit
Girthy even.
OrigamiMonkey@reddit
Oh Jondalar!
fruitysoapsforthee@reddit
I snorted
cheweduptoothpick@reddit
I wish PeterJackson would make movies out of these!
Timmy12er@reddit
My GenX brother loved these books so much that he named his daughter Ayla.
WalkingOnSunshine83@reddit
I read all 3 and loved them! Go, Ayla!
HistoricalReception7@reddit
I didn't know it went past Clan of the Cave Bear! This was one of the first novels I read in Grade school.
Snarkan_sas@reddit
There’s 6. Don’t read the last one. It will just make you angry.
Winterqueen-129@reddit
I’ve read them all. Such good books.
Snarkan_sas@reddit
I used to love these. But every successive book drops in quality until you get to book 6, The Land of Painted Caves, and that is easily the worst book I have ever read.
silversurfer275@reddit
I loved the 1st books. I don't think I even finished the final book.
Drag0nfly_Girl@reddit
As lengthy as Jondalar's member
Iamthehempist1@reddit
I’ve read the whole series and I agree the last 3 books aren’t good. I love the first one and have probably read it 10 times. I like the 2nd and 3rd books too but not as much. Ayla is such a bad ass!!
AdBeautiful7548@reddit
I still have all of them!
Renegadegold@reddit
The build up to the Clan movie as a kid and finally get to watch It… with you’re mom and dad.
spidermans_mom@reddit
The Wheel of Time. Where are my peeps?
Tahquil@reddit
If you stop reading before they get back to Jondalars Cave, it's a fun series.
Empty-Associate-4384@reddit
I met her at a book signing during my lunch break in 1986 - the line was forever… my boss was annoyed that I came back 2 hours later but when I told him it was a gift for my mon he was fine ❤️
charliefoxtrot9@reddit
So girthy, too. Those books should have vibrated.
newhappyrainbow@reddit
I still read them all the way through every few years. I skip a lot of the landscape descriptions and sex scenes, and the painted caves one was complete garbage (Auel gave up the story in favor of her research/pilgrimage), but I still mostly love them.
According-Ad5312@reddit
Thank everyone for saving me time from reading this. Back to serial killers!!!
MannyMoSTL@reddit
Our geometry teacher loved Clan of the Cavebears so much that for our final project that year we could either complete the standard 20pg of geometry questions OR write a 10page essay about CotC.
Open_Confidence_9349@reddit
I just re-read, re-skimmed it. Claim of the Cave Bear was still good, after that I wondered where her editor went. Also, there were two books that came out in the 2000s, that I skimmed, that I hadn’t read before. Skimming was due to awfully written sex scenes and major redundancy of reiterating parts of the story (it was even done several times in the same book).
967milesfromnowhere@reddit
I would read these books up in my room and masturbate vigorously to all the sex scenes with swollen members. Very pornographic and smutty series.
PappyBlueRibs@reddit
Is that what you're the Senior VP of?
real-ocmsrzr@reddit
First three were fantastic!
DenturesDentata@reddit
I’ve read them all repeatedly and I’m currently rereading them and at book 3 The Mammoth Hunters. I love the story but I hate how much repetition there is.
meow13x13@reddit
My favorite series to this day. 🤎
Tamases@reddit
Loved the first. Second got sorta ridiculous. Third couldn't finish it was so terrible. The movie was gawd awful.
SouffleStitches@reddit
My 5th grade teacher read Clan of the Cave Bear to the entire class. I have to image she skipped over the rape scenes, but because I re-read them on my own, I really don't remember for sure.
examinat@reddit
Jondalar v Broud. I was in early middle school when my mom gave me those books.
montanagrizfan@reddit
I remember my mom reading these and being super into them.
Ill_Quantity_5634@reddit
Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey was one I chewed through several times.
Righteous_Fury224@reddit
First book was enjoyable but soon became pulpy as the series continued.
Kolob_Choir_Queen@reddit
Eventually I got sick of the graphic sex
liand22@reddit
Read these in high school. Re-read last year and… they don’t hold up but are definitely what I call “airplane books”: read and leave in the seat pocket for another bored traveler to enjoy.
clampion12@reddit
There's some great fanfic out there, I did a deep dive into it last winter.
CynicalOne_313@reddit
Oh? I'll have to look on AO3...
CynicalOne_313@reddit
I started reading these after I saw the movie.
I finished the entire series.
Cczaphod@reddit
Doggie style FTW.
am312@reddit
Yeah, my mom wouldn't let me read those books but Flowers In The Attic was just fine 😂
oracleoflove@reddit
Ahahaha the way I cackled at this… as long as I was reading my parents didn’t care what I read. Interview with a vampire at 13…. Sure why not. 😂
Big_Donkey3496@reddit
And so good…
nidena@reddit
I think it's time to revisit the series. 🙂
Fairycharmd@reddit
Awww the first introduction of soft core erotica to the passes rofl. SO many moms read JUST the first book.
How many of us read the whole trilogy and were introduced to all sorts of new ideas at an interesting age ?
tranquilrage73@reddit
Loved them.
ChromeGhost76@reddit
So reading between the lines here, but sounds like you all are recommending this series whole heartedly.
Cyve@reddit
I read valley of the horses at 13 and man.... yes. Is all I can say.
My dad had these in his library, he read the first one and I guess he thought the rest of them were early teen safe...
Admirable-Respond913@reddit
Loved this novel
Jampot5@reddit
I loved the first few but Jondalan was a real dick. Went off them then
Top-Reference-1938@reddit
I read the Dragonlance series as a kid. According to the web, there are 190 novels. I've read 39.
DeeDleAnnRazor@reddit
My favorite story/series growing up as a young woman.
monroebaby@reddit
I read these as a teenager and LOVED them. I tired again around 40 and I couldn’t get into it.
ExaminationNo9186@reddit
The 1st book i didnt mind
By the 3rd i was skipping whole chapter long sex scenes.
toupeInAFanFactory@reddit
wow, the doggy-style described in the first book......that was EYE OPENING for 6th grade, raised-in-the-church, me.
TripThruTimeandSpace@reddit
I’m reading them again now, on The Shelters of Stone.
wwaxwork@reddit
I loved those books when they came out, then we waited years and years for the next in the series and it was so bad.
HaloTightens@reddit
I loved these SO MUCH as a teenager. I read then quite a few times. I know I wasn’t alone— a girl I went to school with named her daughter Ayla.
jackparadise1@reddit
Far more sex in these than Harry Potter.
keloyd@reddit
These are very good. I read them at the recommendation of a work friend who is a bit of a book worm in a good way and shares the author's demographics. Mine are very different - only I am Gen X - and this is not at all the sort of book I would read of my own choosing, and yet I still really liked it.
It's been 5ish years since I finally finished the last installment (weaker than the first ones but still well-done and worth finishing the set.) We have an acquaintance of problematic competence and temperament - he is our 'Broud.'
ValiMeyers@reddit
Loved. Loved. Loved
adlittle@reddit
I absolutely loved these books back in the day, just really loved the world and the people and everything. The explicit sex got old after the first read and was an easy skip. I must've read the first four a dozen times over the years when I couldn't find anything else interesting at the library. Unfortunately, the next to last book in the series was a bit meh, and the final one was so bad I couldn't finish it. It was such a bummer to wait a decade and be that disappointed.
Gungadem-1776@reddit
I read it!
PlantMystic@reddit
I have all the books. There are more than just this 3. I love them.
MillionaireBank@reddit
📚👏🌟👍💯
What a wonderful blast from the past this is so amazing to see. Never throw away your books always keep a hold of them.
One time I tried to give these hardback books to a friend of mine I knew that they would like them. They said no no keep them they're good they're important to you years later my friend ripped them up. I didn't even know why. This. destroy people's things. Resale value on each hardback guide was 50 bucks.
angrytwig@reddit
my mom recommended clan of the cave bear to me when i was like 11. she's very catholic. maybe she forgot what it was about
GypsyWitchRover@reddit
Read this series the summer after I graduated high school.
mish_munasiba@reddit
I bought "Shelters of Stone" in paperback as soon as it was released!
OwnCoffee614@reddit
My mama had these! I remember the covers.
GenerationXChick@reddit
I actually read these as an adult and enjoyed them.
clampion12@reddit
The last book is so fucking bad.
Gypsygaltravels1@reddit
I love this section of the subreddit! 😂 I remember seeing these as a kid but never read them!
Rob1150@reddit
Good lord, me and my mom plowed through those.
Alternative_Lion_206@reddit
I haven’t read any but my mom worked with Jean Auel and was a big fan of her work.
BuffyTheMoronSlayer@reddit
Her research was stellar.
nonja-bidness@reddit
paleoporn
slickmartini@reddit
I remember when I saw Clan of the Cave Bear when I was 5. 😳 Thanks, ma.
lazygerm@reddit
I once told my college girlfriend that she had Clan of the Cave Bear feet. I thought it was funny. She was, not amused.
app_generated_name@reddit
Yes. I enjoyed them as a teen. I might have to revisit them as an "adult".
LilJourney@reddit
I actually read the Dragonriders of Pern series before I read this one. At the time it was 9 books long (I think) - currently at 20+ last time I checked. I kind of drifted away from it after the 12th or so book.
Techchick_Somewhere@reddit
I have this set (I took my mom’s) but I haven’t read them yet. 😬
life-is-thunder@reddit
I was just thinking about these books a couple of days ago! I was absolutely obsessed with them. Maybe it's time for a re-read.
CarlatheDestructor@reddit
The first one holds a special place in my heart. I read and re read it so many times.
I enjoyed the first three but the rest I don't remember or blocked out.
ApprehensiveCamera40@reddit
Next thing you know, Ayla invents the microwave. 😁
UsedCan508@reddit
I did not know there was a series
xxMalVeauXxx@reddit
Fun books, even liked the movie a lot.
starz6802@reddit
My favorite books. Set me on a path to enjoy the genre over all.
Top-manipulator@reddit
I loved these as a young adult. Started reading the series again recently!!
snarpy@reddit
Kinda fun but so cringey.
I loved in the third one there's a misunderstanding and she ends up for a while with the decidedly unmanly black guy who doesn't know how to pleasure her.
Also, the dream/drug sequence where she saw the future.
It's so bad I almost think it could be made into a pretty great/awful film trilogy (and yes I'm aware of the first movie).
Magerimoje@reddit
I absolutely loved these books.
The Clan of the Cave Bear movie was awful though.
TheWorldTurnsAround@reddit
I loved this series, have read all the books a few times.
pandabatron@reddit
Same. It's great.
axord@reddit
TIL there's three more books in the series, the last one published in 2010.
lizrdsg@reddit
Skip the last one. It's awful.
FluffyFerociousness@reddit
Loved all of them.
jenorama_CA@reddit
I’ve read them all. I have opinions and things definitely fell off as the series went on. I remember me and my buddy being so excited for the fourth book our senior year of HS and then the crushing disappointment.
AsparagusOverall8454@reddit
I’ve read them all. Loved Them.
MLTDione@reddit
Also read the first four, and got my mother into them when I was a young teen as well.
Easy_Ambassador7877@reddit
It’s funny, I read these back in the day. I’m excited for my teen to read them but I’ve put off suggesting them because of some of the things Ayla goes through….