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A review by gvorb
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
2.0
Enjoyed the first half well enough. And then it just... kept... going. This is not one book. This is like... five books.
And it goes without saying that from a modern perspective there's a whole lot of *problematic* stuff in this book. The ending and the symbolism it implied made me want to throw the book across the room a little bit. (I constructed a much better alternate ending in my head if anyone is curious.)
When all is said and done I'm glad I read it, I wouldn't read it again, and I'm not at all sure than it needs to live on forever in the corpus of classic novels.
And it goes without saying that from a modern perspective there's a whole lot of *problematic* stuff in this book. The ending and the symbolism it implied made me want to throw the book across the room a little bit. (I constructed a much better alternate ending in my head if anyone is curious.)
When all is said and done I'm glad I read it, I wouldn't read it again, and I'm not at all sure than it needs to live on forever in the corpus of classic novels.