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Well, we're bashing Fenimore Cooper a little . . . !!


253 posted on 02/03/2014 6:32:50 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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So what was it about James Fenimore Cooper? I read him as a young lad instead of the boring high school assignments, and the next time I heard his name was when Christopher Buckley started the famous feud of faxes with Tom Clancy, after naming him the most popular American bad writer Since JFC.


257 posted on 02/03/2014 6:38:23 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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Well, in school, I hated ANY book I was FORCED to read. I would deliberately substitute Dostoyevsky for “Cheaper by the Dozen”, “A Separate Peace”, and “Goodbye Mr. Chips”. The mere fact that I was being forced to read these books was enough to make me NOT want to read them. But I always substituted a much more difficult (and LONG) book, so the teacher wouldn’t get mad at me. That was when i read, Dr. Zhivago, The Brothers Karamazov, et al.

It was just me. I was a rebel and hated school, but got all A’s.


290 posted on 02/03/2014 7:33:10 PM PST by left that other site
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