Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: not compelling

As a novel, this is not a terrific read. Kinda slow & dull story.One of the reasons I picked it up is that I had read somewhere that it was an anthropologically accurate portrayal of pre-historic people.Well. Probably not. The life portrayed is of hunter/gatherers in,perhaps the early 20th century. But, as archeology and anthropology indicates, early man did not live in the same way as hunter/gatherers did after the adoption of agriculture.This book is set in 20,000BCE. At that time, hunter/gatherers were not yet pushed into fringe areas where making a living was difficult. They had the ability to range over wide areas. There is no evidence that they starved in winter, and some evidence that they laid in winter stores.It's only a novel, of course. Still.