The Last of the Mohicans

Great book, but this is an old recording & has background hiss. Pick the $ 1.99 recording instead. Narrated by Larry Rudnicka (sp?)

This read a lot fresher than I expected from a book which is now almost 200 years old (although, note that the narrator reads the footnotes without any warning--at first, I thought Cooper must have been post-modern!). The most surprising and intringuing aspect was its temporal scope: the events of all 400 pages (14 hours) occur within just a few days. This means the pace of the story-telling is relaxed, even when the action is not, affording loads of detail and creating very effective suspense (reminiscent of Hemingway's _For Whom the Bell Tolls_). For the most part, this immersion keeps the reader fully interested, but sometimes it becomes tedious, e.g., the Homeric burial rites at the end. The most memorable scenes are those relating the shocking horrors perpetrated by American Natives, dubious tellings which obviously should now be taken with several grains of salt.

This was my first Cooper novel. He spins a wonderful adventure tale which greatly caught me by surprise. The rendition by the narrator is done excellently, as well.

An engaging immersion in the French and Indian War, among the savagery of the Indians, caught between the powers of France and England. The story of the Mohican and the Delaware tribes, decimated by more than a century of contact with whites. Interesting characterization of Hawkeye and of his Indian brothers. Even the Huron villain is understandable. Better than any of the movie versions of the story, even though somewhat dated in style. Excellent narration.

I might try another book narrated by McKeever even though his voice was a bit soporific for me.

No, I like historical fiction and adventure books.

This Recorded Books edition had chapter markers but they didn't bear any relation to the chapters of the text! This is annoying but I am guessing that is why this audiobook was so inexpensive...

At first I thought I wasn't going to like the narrator. He was very monotonous at first. But then the story deepened and the characters fleshed out and the narration improved. Uncas and Hawkeye were my favorite characters. I need to see the movie now.

I purchased this audio as a 99 cent addon to a free Kindle ebook. i was surprised by the quality of the reader and pleased with the original story of rhe movie I had enjoyed many years ago staring Daniel Day Lewis. The portraits of the inhabitants of the American wild was pleasing and the action of the story did not disappoint.

Coopers story telling is unique, for a non academic read you have to concentrate. his vocabulary and style is from a different age. only reason I didn't give 5 stars is I just can't get past males doing feminine parts, but did other characters great.

Really struggled to get into this book. Seemed long winded and hard to follow at times. Didn't get invested in the characters which is never good. The overall story seemed to be a good one, but I'd have preferred the cliff notes version.

the book is so much worse then the movie. Even the movie was boring at the beginning so I gave it a chance. It was hard to follow. I had to go to wikipedia to read about the plot and after listening for 3 hours I didn't remember anything that went on. I actually wanted to punch the author when I was reading it, but I guess the narrator was reading the footnotes at the same time. I like to get lost in the book but the author and narrator take you outside the book. Like the 1st scene with the mohicans the narrator says I will tell translate the language of the mohicans into english so you can understand, then kept referring to hawkeye as the white man then the narrator said I will no refer to the white man as hawkeye as he is known. It felt like I was listening to a text book with a little bit of dialogue thrown in, very hard to follow what is going on.

probably not

not very good narration, no changing of the voices when switching between characters.

don't have the narrator read the footnotes, perform don't huff and puff your way through it.

pass on this one.