crm@duke.UUCP (11/09/83)
It is fun to read what Twain wrote about Cooper's deerslayer -- he didn't like it at ALL! (So I lied in the header -- that's what started me off, anyway) Charlie Martin ...!duke!crm
sebb@pyuxss.UUCP (11/11/83)
is quite funny and quite accurate. All the ridiculous incidents that Twain finds in the novel are actually there. But I loved Last of the Mohicans, for just the reasons Twain hated it. It's so absurd, it's funny. And it's an exciting book, though at times Cooper is a little long-winded. The TV adaption(BBC I think) was probably better because it took out the extraneous information and left the silly and exciting incidents. Unfortunately I haven't seen it on PBS in over 10 years. Too bad. Sharon Badian