"The Last Of The Mohicans" -- I Am Really Having Trouble Trying To Read This 'Classic'.

Wow! Painful is definitely not the right word. Torturous is more like it.

What is it with these so called American 'classics'. Yes, if you look it up I am not alone. It is deemed 'a difficult read' -- the prose verbose & stiff. No kidding.

Then this morning I got to a passage when a Native Indian (called a 'Redskin' in the book) is talking about tides and their 6 hour duration. The story is said to be set in the 1750s. I am pretty sure Native Indians of that time did NOT measure time in hours. I looked it up. I was correct. Hours would have been an alien unit of time in the 1750s -- to the Indians.

Not sure why it is considered a classic.

Keeping on hoping it is going to get better.

Not sure I can slog through if it doesn't. Too painful & I am conscious that I could better spend my time reading a book I enjoy.

The only American classic I have enjoyed is "To Kill A Mockingbird". Yes, of course, written much, much later.

I will try to keep you posted. Wish me luck.

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