laborious and lacking focus

there are so many good elements to Auel's writing. But the repeated references to paedophilia are hard to listen to. I think that Auel's publishers should have edited out these awful passages. What were they thinking? I cannot believe that the books have not been criticised for this. The idea of adults wanting to 'initiate' children into sexual "pleasures" might have been acceptable in some deviant circles in the 1960s, bit it is not acceptable today. such ideas should not be promulgated by the author, or publishers of these novels. Its a shame, because there are so many other, positive elements to these novels. In this novel, Auel begins clumsily and the characters are quite 'simpsonesque'. But she recovers and after the initial chapters, I was drawn back into the story. Roweena Cooper is a good narrator and manages to keep up the same level of interest despite the frequent, laborious passages where Auel has simply pasted her research notes into the novel. Such plumping is just uneccesary. careful and sensitive editing would have really helped Auel to tell her story more effectively. I wonder if she resisted editing? Such a shame. It is so rare to read an epic story with a female central character, and Auel's story could be so significant. But the paedophilia is hard to read. I would suggest that these books are either highly restricted or carefully edited before being reprinted.

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Informative, heart warming story

If you could sum up The Shelters of Stone in three words, what would they be?

Informative, heart warming, just wow

What did you like best about this story?

the information it contained on locations, culture etc

Which character – as performed by Rowena Cooper – was your favourite?

Alya

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

will be reading the series

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Fantastic

I throughly enjoy this series. I’ve read the physical books so often I needed a new set and now I have this to make around the world with me.

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Good listen

Really enjoy this series. About to start the final one. May start all over again.

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great escapism

the final book did not dissapoint but sad that Jean did not continue the saga.

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Love these series read them 1st many years ago

After loving this series 30yrs ago its Great to be able to Hear them

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Enjoyable

Really well narrated for a start. If you can take yourself back to those days and get past the sex and basically the pornography, ended up fast forwarding that repetitiveness, then it is a good listen.

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Loved the escapism!

I enjoyed the descriptive settings of the scenes, details about medicinal plants, crafts etc. Clearly a lot of research went into these books. Narrator has a lovely voice but some words pronunciations were strange.

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Absolutely Great Storytelling

Absolutely wonderful xxxx i wanna go there and live. Such a vivid Story … all the earth series are wonderful Stories i feel i know the characters personally… i have read all the books numerous times and the content and Story never get old . i’d love to to see netflix do a series on the books/Story. i would recommend all the books to anyone that loves to read and escape with storytelling.

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credit needed please

I downloaded this book by mistake, though I'm loving the series, I have looked at this book out of order and request a credit please, it's unread, but I know the story now, so can't go back. Have LOVED this series though!

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