5 Responses to “Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age”

• By Anonymous on Sep 5, 2010

  I HAVE BEEN READING MANY PREHISTORIC NOVELS IN THE LAST YEAR AND
  HAVE ENJOYED JUST ABOUT EVERY BOOK. THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK THAT
  REALLY WASTED MY TIME. I SOMEHOW THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD GET BETTER
  AND THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT ME READING BUT WAS I EVER WRONG. THE CHARACTERS WERE HARD TO REALLY LIKE AND THE STORY LINE
  HAD NOTHING INTERESTING TO KEEP MY INTEREST. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME REALLY GOOD PREHISTORIC NOVELS TRY LINDA LAY SCHULER, CHARLOTTE PRENTISS, LYNN MCKEE OR JOAN WOLF. (I HAVE NOT READ JOAN WOLF’S BOOKS YET BUT HAVE HEARD EXCELLENT REVIEWS!!)
  Rating: 1 / 5
• By Heather H. on Sep 5, 2010

  This book didn’t really appeal to me as a work of historical fiction, didn’t come across as realistic or even plausible.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• By William M. Doolittle on Sep 5, 2010

  Professors are not novelists. As accurate as this book might be, the writing is quite poor. It drags and there is very little plot, just a string of events. I’m sure he was a fine scholar.
  Rating: 2 / 5
• By William M. Doolittle on Sep 5, 2010

  Professors are not novelists. As accurate as this book might be, the writing is quite poor. It drags and there is very little plot, just a string of events. I’m sure he was a fine scholar.
  Rating: 2 / 5
• By Seoigheach on Sep 5, 2010

  To be honest, this is a one-star novel, but I feel like I’m kicking a dog when I come down hard on this book, so I’ll give an extra star for effort and risk-taking. The author is an accomplished scientist who wanted to play with some speculations in a novelistic format. The result is a novel that is not worth reading, much less buying: wooden, predictable, awkward, and generally bereft of the qualities that make good fiction good. You can read a couple of chapters from your library copy then skip to the afterword, where the author explains his scientific hypotheses. If you want to get a better sense of a more serious novelist trying to depict the neolithic, try William Golding’s ‘The Inheritors.’ ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ only for laughs.
  Rating: 2 / 5

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