I am waiting and waiting and waiting for The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
It's the final in a series of six and it's been years. I thought she was going to pop her clogs before it was finished.
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/28/jean-auel-earths-children
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:28, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Are they the ones where the protagonist single-handedly invents civilisation?
Invents cooking, the wheel, agriculture, domesticates the horse and the dog and the cat, and still has time to spend the majority of each book having hot sex with hairy cavemen?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:46, Reply)

Yup, that's the one.
It's like Catherine Cookson and Jilly Cooper for Cro-Magnon people.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:53, Reply)

my mum had the first few when I stll lived at home
and I read practically EVERYTHING In that house, including several of the "Chalet School" books of my sister. Grim times when the library was shut on a Sunday.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:04, Reply)

I love following Ayla's travels.
I care not for the inaccuracies and the increasing sexual drama elements.
When I was little I even read all my mum's Catherine Cooksons. I just couldn't be without a book at the time (I'm not much of a reader any more) and I also read really fast.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:09, Reply)

I once went to the library in the morning, took out 5 books
read them, and took them back in the afternoon and got 5 more. It was perhaps a little excessive.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

The first one was amazing
by the fifth one, you could skip 3 pages in every 10 because it was either the same repeated drivel about how wonderful she is or ridiculous descriptions of the amazing and girthy sex she's getting. There's supposed to be a sixth one in the works but frankly I'm not sure I'd bother - that is, if the excitement of writing all that sexual guff doesn't give Jean Auel a coronary mid-book.

EDIT - If I'd actually read properly what you'd written, Roota, I would see that there is indeed a sixth book out soon. *belms* I'm still not sure I'll bother though.
(berk, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:51, Reply)