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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in the 7th grade so I could write my first real book review.  I hated it then; I still hate it now.  Fenimore Cooper shows that early American writers were on crack and forgot how to write after they crossed the Pond.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this one in a college class. I hated it at the beginning, but I really appreciate how Cooper uses and manipulates time in this book. By the time I finished it, I was a big fan.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give the first 300 pages of this book 2 stars (or maybe even 1.5), but then it was like Cooper suddenly realized he may want to actually sell some copies so he put in a plot line and some action.  After that point I would give it 3.5 stars.  By the end I really wanted to go on to read the next b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53021705">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This makes me want to go back in time and see his world.  Cooper was one of the world's first environmentalists.  A must read in classic American literature.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Deerslayer was better but this is good if like Cooper. You have to force yourself through a slow beginning but then it gets good. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy crap, Cooper, write something that isn't awful! Can't? You're dead, you say? Too bad. Hopefully, <em>Last of the Mohicans</em> redeems him as a novelist. That being said, despite its TEDIOUS style, this novel does describe the ambiguity of the early American in terms of self-definition.  Disparity betwe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12640186">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Being as JFC's mother is a blood relative I am more than obligated to read his books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the series. This was my least favorite one, but I still liked it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some interesting themes in this book, unfortunately overshadowed by too many characters and incomprehensible &quot;dialect&quot;-type dialogue. Cooper avoids the &quot;show, don't tell&quot; fault by falling into the &quot;show-AND-tell&quot; trap, meaning we see the characters argue over events tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26945638">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is part of The Leatherstocking tales. While I enjoyed The Last of the Mohicans, and The Deerslayer, I was disappointed by this book. Maybe because the key character was no longer a vital young man, but a 70 year old, so he lost some of his &quot;wild&quot; appeal. I am definitely going to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23946059">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For fans - I found <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38296.The_Last_of_the_Mohicans_Bantam_Classics_" title="The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper">The Last of the Mohicans</a> for interesting. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My goodness, were there a lot of annoying characters in this book.  Writing style was quite forgettable as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read for my nation, empire, and literature class. cooper's alright. really interesting from an historical perspective. ]]></body>
    
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