loy norrix student
posts on 11/24/2008 1:25:55 PM
this book is horrible!
we have to read it in four days and its four hundred and something pages i hate it! the vocab is insane and im upset that we have to read it and do so much vocabulary. plus this big sheet five of them that we have to fill out about the book >:(
im highly upset
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posts on 5/23/2006 7:07:59 PM
+smirks+ right on. ich canst nicht schte es. (that was probably spelled wrong and terrible grammar. give me a break, i haven't studied it in 5 years...) has anyone ever read mark twain's essay on "the literary offences of james fenimore cooper?" i nearly died of laughter...
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posts on 5/23/2006 6:03:53 PM
I'm an American studying in Berlin and we were assigned "The Pathfinder" (translated in German) as reading. I was having trouble, so I looked up the fulltext English version online -- and the German version is BETTER! It's really funny; whoever translated it cleaned up Cooper's prose and shortened all those boring descriptions.
I'm a native English speaker, but I'm sticking with the German.
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Roy
posts on 1/8/2006 7:58:48 PM
help, i have to read and do an oral book report... any input.
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Matt
posts on 10/19/2005 5:12:19 PM
i'm on this website beacuse i need cliff notes on this horrible book. I have to read it for a school project but gave up because its so confusing and boring. I've read a nine hundred page biography that better than this
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grant
posts on 10/11/2005 8:27:36 PM
I need a summary or cliff notes on this book. Can anyone help?
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John Ellis
posts on 8/21/2005 2:29:18 PM
The problem with reading any novels written in the Victorian era is that they have to be approached with a Victorian mindset. These books were essentially written for the leisure classes who had plenty of time on their hands because the servants were taking care of the cooking and cleaning. One is never going to dash through The Last of The Mohicans on a plane ride from New York to Los Angeles. It's true of just about every writer of the period although I have to say that I don't think that Cooper's novels bring a lot of human insights that remain relevant like those to be found in say the novels of Henry James or Joseph Conrad. They do however translate quite well into action movies. Perhaps a confirmation of the adage that the best movies are based on second class literature.
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martha
posts on 8/21/2005 1:43:55 PM
i CAN'T READ this book, it's way too boring. i have to write an essay and need some input. How does hawkeye function as an american icon? can we see him as an underlying american ideal? what makes him so?
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Hutch
posts on 8/7/2005 7:20:51 PM
This novel was so bad that I couldn't wait for the trapper to die.
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kat orion
posts on 6/29/2005 4:35:00 PM
i tried to read the last of the mohicans but i stopped. i am only twelve so maybe i should try to read it when i'm older?
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