My wife and I did a 4-day vacation to the Lake George area of NY in September..
She has read all of the "Leatherstocking Tales" books before, but I never had.
After seeing "Cooper's Cave" at Glens Falls, visiting Fort William Henry and the remains of Fort Edward,
and hiking along the wild Hudson river on the eastern edge of the Adirondacks, I just had to read "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherstocking_Tales
It was cool to read the story after I had just been to the actual locations where it took place!
(the story itself is fiction, but based on actual historical events of the French and Indian War.)
Just finished the book a few days ago!
great story!
and as always, much better than the movie!
I might read more of the Leatherstocking Tales..
Before that I read:
http://www.ajjacobs.com/books/yolb.asp
highly recommended!
My all time favorite authors would have to be JRR Tolkein and Douglas Adams.
I have read all the works by both of them, multiple times.
Scot
interesting bit of trivia..
Alan Alda's character "Hawkeye" from MASH is named after Hawkeye, the scout from the Leatherstocking Tales
and Last of the Mohicans.
In one MASH episode, Hawkeye explains that his father gave him the nickname when he was a kid.