I'm married to a scavenger of sorts and he often totes home rescued boxes of books that I paw through with shiny, hungry eyes. I pull out the odd and interesting and add them to my teetering stack.
While I loved Clan of the Cave Bear, this was close to unreadable, with pages and pages of descriptive detail of the "vast grasslands," and next to no interpersonal relations and dialogue. I really tried to get through it, but no luck.