So we finally have a release date for Jean Auel's long anticipated Book 6: The Land of Painted Caves. And it is... March 29, 2011! That is wonderful news - but still a far away promise! So, let's continue to see what else we can find to keep ourselves amused until then...

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Fan Fiction 2

Well, I finished the Fan Fiction story that I mentioned below. It was good. I wish it had been longer, but I quite enjoyed it and would recommend it. So now it's time to find another one!

I usually look for stories about the Clan. I figure that sooner or later Jean is going to tell us what happens to Ayla and Jondalar, but I don't get the sense that she intends to re-visit Broud's Clan (as much as we might like her to). So it's fun to see how other fans imagine their lives continuing.

The first story I tried had some interesting ideas, but I ended up having to abandon it because all of the spelling and grammatical errors were killing me! I tried to ignore them for a while, but by the fiftieth time that Brun was misspelled (or probably mistakenly auto-corrected) to Burn, I'd had enough. Plus the writer didn't know Jean's characters very well. For example, he or she thought that Durc was 2 years old at his first Clan Gathering (he was actually only a few months old).

So I started reading this story. It begins pretty much right where The Clan of the Cave Bear finished off, and is very well written so far. The characters are recognizable, and I find the story plausible. Plus, the author is very prolific writer, and the story is fairly long. I'm still only on the first page of the topic, but have reached chapter 5 of the story.

Do you have any Fan Fiction stories you would like to recommend?

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