false 7968 0812524268 9780812524260 3733 118 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165651993m/7968.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968.Red_Prophet 589 Orson Scott Card 225649 15565 5 2 false Fri Aug 17 17:43:11 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 17:55:26 -0700 2007 Seventh Son well enough for its folksy look at a young alternative America, filled with homespun magic knacks and big families dreaming even bigger of a better life. In Red Prophet, we get to see the flipside of the white man's knackery compared to those of the red man. It's a fascinating portrait of good versus evil, drawn along the fault lines of selfishness, ambition, misplaced good intentions, ignorance, and principle. The characters in the book, many of which you'd recognize from history, all have their own agendas and motivations, and Card takes us deep into their reasoning and nature of conflict. People just want to live their lives, most of the time, but the way they live them invariably steps on someone else's idea of what that means...the end result, on the Tippecanoe river, filled me with sadness. This is an alternative history of America, mind you, so the events portrayed will be different from what you read in history books. It is, however, imagined with great heart. Red Prophet is, I think, the best of of this six book series. ]]>