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Originally Posted by issybird
Anyone interested in The Last of the Mohicans needs to read Mark Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. I read it at an impressionable age and it cured me of any desire to read his works. 
Since people are revealing their voting strategy, I'll admit that I voted for my preference of the two front-runners and the books I really would like to read!  |
I haven't read them either, but they are still extant and you can even buy "The Leatherstocking Tales" as an Omnibus at Amazon so obviously someone wants to read them. Every writer has critics I figure (even the classic authors had their critics in their own day) so each to his/her own.
