Dulplicate... I will bookcross to someone.

Going traveling in Nattabee's First Book Box...hope it finds a good home with someone.

Selected from Nattabee's First Book Box, I haven't ever read this classic so now is the time! Thanks for including it.

Released into the ABC bookbox, happy travels!

To the finder of this book:

Welcome to BookCrossing, a unique community of book lovers, who are sharing their libraries with the world. This book is now yours to read, enjoy, keep or pass on to another reader.

The BookCrossing ID, which you entered in the "Enter a BCID" box on the website, is unique to this copy of this book. We would be delighted if you would make a journal entry to say you have found the book. It is fun for other readers of this book to see where the book has traveled-sometimes around the world!

BookCrossing is free to join, completely confidential, and you may remain anonymous (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address) and a great deal of fun. If you choose to join please consider using me BOOKSTOGIVE as your referring member.

I'm taking this paperback from the ABC Bookbox. I read the book in school, but that was a loooong time ago, and even then I suspect we only got an abridged version. Will be interesting to revisit it now, and to compare it with the 1992 film adaptation.

Later: OK, I knew that Cooper's style was, to say the least, windy, but this really was something of a slog - and I'm a reader who enjoys many long-winded writers (Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, etc.). That said, I appreciated many of the scenes, which do convey a feeling of being in the "forest primeval"!

While I generally prefer my book-to-film adaptations to be faithful to the original, in this case the addition of the romantic subplots - and some of the most dramatic scenes, which differed from the book or were entirely new - did seem to be an improvement.

[The TV Tropes page deals with the book and the 1992 film. And there's even a page containing Mark Twain's diatribe against Cooper, which is very funny whether you like Cooper or not!]

I left this book, bagged against the elements, on a bench next to the pond just off of Merrit Parkway at about 1; hope the finder enjoys it! (The bench has the legend "That's all there is, my friends..." - interesting...)

*** Released as part of the 2013 Movie release challenge. ***