The Last of the Mohicans

De: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver

Duración: 15 h y 45 m

Resumen del Editor

The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century.

Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.

Public Domain (P)2009 RNIB

Sweet

Reasonably well read, and of course this is a beautiful and timeless story. I wish we had more authors like this fellow. One for the ages.

A difficult book to follow.

I love old English novels, so I am used to the language, but this was very difficult to follow especially given all the native American names and terms. Not my favorite performance .

Very well delivered

Very well delivered and engaging audible. I'll most likely seek out the reader again in other books.

Way more in depth than the movie!

Oh my goodness what a listen this has been! whew!! I enjoyed the presentation of this book. Jonathan Oliver reads this book as if we're fireside in the woods in colonial times! What an intense story and a heart wrenching story. A true master piece! Especially that I live in New York State and have traveled to Fort William Henry on Lake George. Its literature and historical gold and its an amazing adventure!! You won't be disappointed!

Not the best

The voice of the guy reading was hard to listen to. The story was not bad over all.

Great voice. Struggles with dialect.

Although I think I could listen to the soft purr and swift precision of the narrator's speech for years on end, to my ears, he fails to render the dialog in this book authentically. Most of it is overwrought, sounding more like caricatures than characters. There's no evidence of an authentic accent in the Native American characters and, worst of all, Hawkeye, the central character, is performed as if he were some transplanted Cajun rather than a colonial American frontiersman. For an example of what I mean, listen to Raymond Todd's reading of The Deerslayer. To me he gets it right. Todd's dialog sounds more authentic and carries the story better. Mr. Oliver doesn't even approximate the characters' speech as the author renders it on the page. It ruined the experience for me. I downloaded a different version.

Frustrating

The narration was so bad that I couldn't understand what was being read. Might just be me, but I had to turn it off after 20 minutes of strained hard listening. Extremely frustrating, very let down.

Cooper is Poorly Understood

James Fenimore Cooper's books require a respect for the political tensions of an early formed nation and an appreciation for the racial and ethnic mix of people who were shaping it. Unfortunately, Jonathan Oliver seems to have little understanding of these subtleties. In his reading, he pauses in the wrong places, gives the wrong dialect to Hawkeye, and pays little homage to the Native Americans. He also mispronounces American place names. I gave up listening to him after Chapter Four and found another reader.