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Title: The Pathfinder (Penguin Classic) by James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 0-14-039071-5 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Cooper?
Comment: This book was as boring as clipping my dog's toenails. It has no invention, no creativity, and it's crass stupidities are passed on as "the delicate art of the forest." Delicate art of the forest my Aunt Fanny! The book's style is set forth in an implausible way. For example, when the males are all shooting at a stupid tree-more specifically, a nail head in the tree-Cooper sets the nail about a 100 yards away! And yet everyone seems to see this nail and shoot at it. That's about the size of a house fly. Now this pathfinder-natty bumpo-deerslayer person is able to shoot at a hundred yards and hit the thing dead on! This man is able to see a housefly at a hundred hards and confidently say that he did so. Can YOU do it?
The style of the writer is tremedously tedious. It seems to add things not needed and omit things that are necessary.
I would recommend this book to those who do not value time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Upon the inland sea...........
Comment: In the fourth installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper introduces a nautical theme upon the surface and along the shores of Lake Ontario. The Pathfinder is ultimately a love story tinged with the conspiracy of treason, though it takes no extra-sensory perception to uncover the traitor long before he is exposed in the book. Cap, a grizzled saltwater veteran, accompanies his niece to visit her father stationed at the British outpost of Fort Oswego, NY. Once there, the two become embroiled in the confrontation between England, France, and their Native American allies for control of the lake. Cap is dismissive of landlubbers and "freshwater ponds", such as he describes Ontario, setting the stage for his mind to be turned by the derring-do of inland waterman, Jasper Western. Indeed, Cap is so outspoken in his contempt for the ways of his new found associates, that he becomes somewhat of an annoyance to the reader. Cooper chose to give the character little in the way of redeeming qualities nearly spoiling the pleasure one takes in Cap's ultimate and grudging respect for the wilderness and the men who master it. Such a thoroughly boorish character simply creates no emotional connection. But, Cap isn't guilty of treason. You'll spot the traitor shortly after he appears.
The Pathfinder is formulaic, utterly predictable, and, at times, almost childlike in substance, but throughout, as in all other Leatherstocking Tales, radiates the simple goodness, manly deportment, and rustic charm of Nathaniel Bumppo. Indeed, Bumppo as a character is so masterfully wrought that Cooper could place him in a melon patch for the duration of a book and still manage to eke out a classic. Having previously read The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Prairie, I find The Pathfinder the weaker of the four, but fourth in favor in this wonderful series of stories isn't any black mark. Indeed, it qualifies The Pathfinder as yet another loveable yarn from the pen of James Fenimore Cooper. 4+ stars.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good adventure
Comment: In this, the third Leatherstocking tale chronologically (after Deerslayer and Last of the Mohicans), James Fenimore Cooper takes us, once again, to his vision of pure, unadultered, nature. Once again he weaves a tale around his ideas of morality, race, and religion. This time around Leatherstocking (known here as Pathfinder) is the pursuer of love, whereas before (in Deerslayer) he was the pursued.
These three books are the only ones that I have read to this point, and it is true that both this and the Deerslayer are more of romances than the Last of the Mohicans, which is an adventure.
Alot of people give the other books in the series flack because they are expecting the same as what they read in Last of the Mohicans. However, if you begin reading the book without those preconcived notions leading to disappointment, I think you will find that the other books are equally entertaining
All three are great books and I highly recommend them all.
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Title: The Deerslayer (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 0553210858 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 0451525213 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Prairie (Penguin Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 014039026X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 0553213296 Publisher: Bantam Classics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (Penguin Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper, Wayne Franklin ISBN: 0140436286 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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