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.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
"—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
I find him completely unreadable. I liked Red October, but after that everything became a homogenous blur.
Especially the ones that were "co-written". Always a bad sign.
My husband's a Georgia Tech man and not a "litterary cove". I occasionally recommend a book, sometimes it makes a hit, sometimes not.
He liked "Mr. Midshipman Easy". He likes most Kipling. He liked "Destiny Bay". He did NOT like Lafcadio Hearn's ghost stories, and I just couldn't get him into Trollope although I tried. He won't even look at Austen.