Originally Posted by NostalgiaKick
Originally Posted by Annie B.
The final book in the series, The Land of Painted Caves, was so bad that longtime fans threw it aside in disgust.

I agree, Land of Painted Caves was a huge disappointment. But I read somewhere just before it was released that it was basically ghostwritten due to Jean M Auel having Alzheimers disease. Weird thought... does that make it basically fanfic? Hehehe.
If so, it qualifies as the sadly not-so-rare, elusive badfic. laugh

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland