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last of the mohicans

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Wed April 14th, 2010, 6:14 pm

ive tried to read this at least twice in my youth. never got through it. i liked the film from the 90s (wes studi who played magua was brilliant)

anybody like it? im thinking about trying it again.

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Post by chuck » Wed April 14th, 2010, 6:42 pm

[quote=""keny from prague""]ive tried to read this at least twice in my youth. never got through it. i liked the film from the 90s (wes studi who played magua was brilliant)

anybody like it? im thinking about trying it again.[/quote]

I must have tried at least 5 times to give LOTM a read....could not put up with it...Language is much to flowery and laboroius....Suggestion....I got a Audio/unabridged CD from my library....I listened to it's entirety on a long road trip....Much more enjoyable to listen to... then the actual read....BTW....The 90's film version(I thoroughly enjoyed)...WTS Cooper's version is a bit darker and sadder.....P.S. Quite few years the BBC did a television version of LOTM...Very close the original Cooper's version...Production was a bit stiff and stagy...Nice try....Yes Studi was brilliant along with Daniel Day Lewis as Hawkeye....
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Post by Misfit » Wed April 14th, 2010, 6:47 pm

I started it once, lost interest. Never picked it back up.
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Post by EC2 » Wed April 14th, 2010, 7:01 pm

I've read it twice, the first time when I was 12, and then again in my mid teens. I loved it then, but I was inspired by the BBC production of it first and probably wouldn't have picked it up without that. I would probably find it tough going now, but back then I was game! :)
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Post by parthianbow » Thu April 15th, 2010, 1:36 pm

Tried it in my teens and twenties - couldn't finish it either time! The prose is IMHO far too flowery and long-winded (a bit like Dickens). The film w. Daniel Day-Lewis, on the other hand, was magnificently done, I thought. Terribly moving in so many places. (Although, the last time I watched it, I thought the initial hunt scene was daft. :confused: The scene opens with DDL/Hawkeye and the Mohicans running and running like mad, only to take a pot shot at a deer which is stationary. As anyone who knows about hunting deer will tell you, it's a case of stalking them quietly, and taking a shot from a concealed position.)
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Post by chuck » Thu April 15th, 2010, 3:29 pm

Ben....Artistic license....and Hawkeye(Natty Bumpo) was a platonic character in Cooper's Novels.....I wish the film what have stuck with the Cooper storyline....Maqua kills Cora etc....But Hollywood had to sugar coat a bittersweet ending......WTS...Still a very enjoyable film to watch.....

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Thu April 15th, 2010, 5:07 pm

im glad im not the only one who couldnt get through the book. i was wondering if it was just me.

id like to read it eventually just to be able to compare it to the film but i doubt i ever will. The film is great in my opinion, great acting, a redemption character (duncan), brutal battles, a great setting (cant think of any other 7 years wars films other than barry lyndon), and a sad ending. my favourite Amerindian film by far. much better than "dances with wolves" by a mile. I loved that it had heroic and villianous characters on all sides and peoples. it definately stayed away from portraying the tribespeople as "primative".

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Post by Eigon » Thu April 15th, 2010, 8:05 pm

I read it, and the sequel, (Leather stocking? - I remember some poor girl getting scalped but surviving) when I was in my early teens and would read absolutelyanything.
In the early 1970s, the BBC did a very low budget series - I remember the Welsh actor Philip Madoc as the wicked Huron, and they were all wandering around a damp Welsh woodland.
I found the film a bit confusing in parts - too dark, and I couldn't tell who everyone was.

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Post by EC2 » Thu April 15th, 2010, 8:15 pm

[quote=""Eigon""]I read it, and the sequel, (Leather stocking? - I remember some poor girl getting scalped but surviving) when I was in my early teens and would read absolutelyanything.
In the early 1970s, the BBC did a very low budget series - I remember the Welsh actor Philip Madoc as the wicked Huron, and they were all wandering around a damp Welsh woodland.
I found the film a bit confusing in parts - too dark, and I couldn't tell who everyone was.[/quote]

That's the one I saw Eigon - but I did rather fall for Uncas - which was what made me read the thing!
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Post by princess garnet » Fri April 16th, 2010, 1:01 am

I read the novel in junior high and have seen the 1992 movie a few times. Oh, I also have the soundtrack.
From imdb.com, there's been several versions.

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