Ten Day Meme: Day 8

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Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot sometimes.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever).
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession


I'm assuming this doesn't mean sexual turn-ons 'cause, you know, TMI on a public space and all ;)

1. Chocolate
   
2. Zamfir ::hangs head in shame::
   
3. Warmth (temperature warmth; I'm freezing most of the year)

And speaking of TMI - of the literary type this time - I am #265 on the list on hold for Land of Painted Caves at the library. I'd love to know how the Earth's Children series ends, but can't bring myself to buy the last book and read it earlier. Not after Shelters of Stone. And Plains of Passage. And... actually pretty much after everything but Clan of the Cave Bear :(

That's not fair. Valley of Horses and Mammoth Hunters were both not that bad, but wow, what a let down after Clan. It seemed like the author had realized that all people really wanted to read about was sex, so the obligatory sex scenes kinda took over the world and made me feel that if I never read the words "surging manhood" and "inviting depths" again it would be too soon. And then the plots started getting kinda weird, and by the end of the fifth book I was mightily tired of the endless cycle of "look at the fauna, look at the flora, invent some cool Stone Age thing, have Stone Age sex."

Oh well. Hopefully by the time the library calls to tell me my copy is in I will still remember what the series was all about ;)


ETA: Oh ouch ouch ouch I just went and read the reviews and maybe I'll take myself off the waiting list:

• "Big thanks to all the Good Reads and Amazon reviewers who have already given this one a big THUMBS DOWN. You've given me permission to stop wasting my time hoping it will get better."
  
  
• "All right, that's finally done. Nothing like making a stomach bug feel worse by reading a very disappointing book."
  
  
• "I think all of us who started out reading the Earth’s Children series so long ago are simply reading this so we can be done with it. The repetition of information goes on beyond what is needed for making the book stand alone in case you don’t read the others. Probably a third of the book could be pared away by getting rid of this annoying problem. Although, I did think that it would make a great drinking game if you had to take a drink each time a new person wondered at Ayla’s odd speech and swallowed vowels. Also, drink up when wolf has to be introduced to another scared human. Thankfully, the first sex scene doesn’t even come (hee hee, see that?) until a quarter of the way through the book which is good because they were so ridiculous in the last two or three books that I routinely fast forwarded through them."
  
  
• "Other than finding out what happens to Ayla, Jondalar and Family, this was a terribly written book. It could easily have been edited down to 100-200 pages max. Endless recapping of past events, repetition of the mother's song, and mind numbing details about cave after cave after cave. So sad that such a wonderful saga had such an underwhelming finish."
  
  
• "Oh boy - what did I think.....let me put it this way, I skipped 100 pages of the book and was still able to finish it without missing any of the plot."
  
  
• "So far this book is awful, the editor should be fired. I know it has been 20 years, but I haven't forgot the story or characters, so move it along a little faster please. I am only sticking it out to finish the series."