- Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Reprint edition (Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671552864
- ISBN-13: 978-0671552862
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.7 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 230,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
An epic saga of prehistoric life & death, suffering & joy & the slow, miraculous relationship between creatures becoming people & people holding to their faith in the Sacred Mother.
This was such a primal read, as if I'd dreamt it at sometime in my life or the way we feel for the dinosaurs without actually ever having been alive at the same time they enjoyed this world. I know when I too first saw those footmarks upon that ancient lava bed, I had such a rush of connection.
To women this memory is intense, startling & bone-deep. For women can see, especially during gestation, that long, long walk we've made out of the water, the cave & the trees. It did, of course, take a woman to bring these stories to the page & a woman trained in the evolution of human sexuality brings with her a perspective that opens up unthought-of concepts.
I know, from living beside a modern-day hunter & warrior, that a lot of what's in Circles of Stone would be scoffed at; great guffaws about the improbability of certain events; exclamations of drivel about women romanticising those early millennia when we crept out of the forest, taught ourselves to stand upright which changed our reproductive cycles forever.
Not only did we survive, we thrived & that is what Joan Dahr Lambert's book is all about: how we might have done it.
Circles of Stone is a keeper, up there on your Women's Journey Shelf right along with the Descent of Woman; Clan of the Cave Bear & all those grand adventures that women have written about to return to us our sense of our story, our sense of celebration of a life well lived & our sense of the Sacred Mother.
Joan Dahr Lambert is a Mistress Story Teller & gifts us with some hope in a book of beautiful scenes, awe-inspiring experiences of wild &; tempestuous weather; of life before all the trappings with which civilization has weighed us down, incarcerated us & made us unkind. Very well done!...
Format:Hardcover
I loved this book. Because it stressed equality to me. It was insightful and inventive as well as being thought provoking.. Correct in detail, but at the same time the writer used the details and her imagination to even greater effect. Definitely worth the read.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I finished this book several days ago, and it is still with me. How ironic to be sitting in an easy chair in my climate-controlled house, in my safe little neighborhood, drinking tea and eating a cookie while reading about Zena I desperately digging into a riverbed in search of water, Zena II watching everyone she loves die in a stampede, and Zena III risking her life with a herd of bison to keep from freezing to death. The story is fascinating; the characters seem incredibly real; and the spirituality is a comfort to those of us who feel connected to the universal force we call "mother". The author becomes a bit preachy toward the end of the book, but by then we've been led on such an incredible journey that we are inclined to forgive. This is a beautiful book on so many levels, not the least of which is that it made me want to learn more about anthropology so I could feel even closer to the characters. Highly recommended!
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Focus on 3 women in early man's hisory
Slow moving and shallow. The three "heroines" are all named Zena, not Xena, Warrioir Princess. Read more
Published on 19 May 1999
I couldn't even finish the book
In the beginning It felt like I was reading about a group of apes. And it was freaky how she started this strange cult that worshipped The Mother. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 1999
Very interesting piece of fiction based on aspects of fact.
I found this book as interesting and stimulating to my imagination as the Jane Auel books (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.). Read more
Published on 8 Feb 1999
CIRCLES OF STONE explains many of our problems today.
Anyone who would like to gain some understanding of the violence and abuse in our lives, or who yearns for a world centered around life and life-giving activities should read... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 1999
Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
This is an enlightening book about the relationship between 3 wise women of ancient tribes and the Goddess. Read more
Published on 21 Sep 1998
Outstanding, life-changing, unforgettable
This book is one that will stay with me for the rest of my life. As a person who is searching for a true and authentic way to live, this book gives me insight into how things were... Read more
Published on 26 April 1998
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