Silverhair
Stephen Baxter
Eos 2000
PB 276pgs
ISBN# 0-06-102020-6

Interminable story about a group of sentient, Woolly Mammoths, who, having survived the ages on an island off the Siberian coast, must now deal with the encroachment of the Lost Ones (man), and their own dwindling numbers as nature takes it's toll.

I like to think I have a great ability to suspend reality and accept many things, but the idea of furry elephants living in synchronicity with the vibes of our planet and having a mythological based heredity that they pass down from generation to generation was just WAY beyond me.  Factor in the fact that author didn't imbue any of these beings with even a modicum of an interesting personality, and it was a tough read.