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A review by hagbard_celine
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card
3.0
I'll keep reading the series, but boyo, I've got some bones to pick with this volume. Including:
1. When a black character is a non-native english speaker, DO NOT WRITE THEIR INNER MONOLOGUE IN STEREOTYPED BROKEN ENGLISH. Jesus christ. We meet an African princess-turned-runaway slave, and she is barely fluent in her own thoughts. Goddamn.
2. Mormons writing about physical attraction as a component of love – predictably goofy. "He saw her, he shivered, he imagined her face, he imagined being her devoted husband" or whatever.
3. Not super-interested in Card's depiction of slavery & its horrors. Almost everything we see of slavery is through white eyes.
4. How big is a plow? Portable? Weird.
1. When a black character is a non-native english speaker, DO NOT WRITE THEIR INNER MONOLOGUE IN STEREOTYPED BROKEN ENGLISH. Jesus christ. We meet an African princess-turned-runaway slave, and she is barely fluent in her own thoughts. Goddamn.
2. Mormons writing about physical attraction as a component of love – predictably goofy. "He saw her, he shivered, he imagined her face, he imagined being her devoted husband" or whatever.
3. Not super-interested in Card's depiction of slavery & its horrors. Almost everything we see of slavery is through white eyes.
4. How big is a plow? Portable? Weird.