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The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
PBS Market Price: $7.09 or $3.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780553210859
ISBN-10: 0553210858
Publication Date: 2/1/1991
Pages: 528
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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6 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

hardtack avatar reviewed The Deerslayer on + 2541 more book reviews
Over 60 years ago, I enjoyed this book when I read it for a high school class and read the rest of the series on my own.

Still, I enjoyed Mark Twain's critique on Cooper's work and laughed all the way through.

Read it yourself at

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3172-h/3172-h.htm
reviewed The Deerslayer on
Hundreds of pages too long. This as well as his other Leatherstocking tales could get the point across in half the text.
Way too much description, and characters' dialogue too long-winded saying basically the same points over and over again.
pinkcypress avatar reviewed The Deerslayer on + 86 more book reviews
"This book is the last of the Leatherstocking books, though first in the chronology of the hero's life. The Deerslayer is Cooper's masterpiece."
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Author is rather long winded with run-on sentences/paragraphs. He was often repetitious but not too often.
Story line was good and he gave good visual descriptions.
reviewed The Deerslayer on + 8 more book reviews
Not bad but not good either.
KellitaJ avatar reviewed The Deerslayer on + 550 more book reviews
This book was purchased for my so for English class at school. He gave it 3 stars.