Not my favorite of the Letherstocking Tales - so far (i've read The Deerslayer, Last of the Mohicans). The Pioneers has more dialog, and in the, what I describe as Early American English, makes it harder for me to follow and understand at times. However, the story, especially the climax make it a worthwhile read.

Cooper is a masterful storyteller. I would recommend this book (and the others I've previously read) to anyone who likes Native American and Colonial American history and a love of the outdoors . ( )

Read the first few chapters. Difficult to read and I love Russian lit. It would make a great fire starter. However I gave it to a free library. Hold I don’t get bad karma for that. ( )

I thought this story was about the abuse of native type people by settlers, but it's a love story! Very exciting, the descriptions are word pictures that make you feel that you are seeing things yourself.

Since I live in the area, it makes me want to go to Cooperstown & try to find the area talked about! Is Mt. Vision in walking distance? ( )

Long and laborious reading. The plots were vague.
This is more of a narrative of how life was in early settlements of the frontier. ( )

The first 200 pages of this book were just awful--the first day literally ends on the 200th page, so you can imagine how overwrought with detail the prose is--but the story got pretty good after that.

I probably wouldn't recommend going out of your way to read The Pioneers, but if you've started struggling through it already, you should soldier on to the end. ( )