by James Fenimore Cooper, Bruce L.R. Smith
What can I say that Mark Twain didn't? http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/indians/offense.html"Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in "Deerslayer," and in the restricted place of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the...
This book receives quite a bit of vitriolic language about how it's the "worst book ever written" and other predictably trite rantings of those who have different expectations than the book satisfies. I began this book with an open mind and with an interest in the writing style of an author I hadn't...
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