This is actually a reread but I never listed it among the read because I think I gave it short shrift the first time around. It was one of the earlier books I read when I was still too enamoured with Heinlein and Asimov to give much serious thought to it.I had to check the cover once in awhile to re...
I was doing so well with my review writing until I got to this book, just plodding along reading and reviewing, reading and reviewing. And then I got to this fucker. Not only did it traumatize me the whole time I was reading it, but just the thought of writing about it felt like re-living that traum...
R4X Monday 26 November“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
Hmm. I had a really hard time getting through this book for whatever reason. It didn't feel like much was connected until I had time to think about the last two chapters, which were amazing, and totally worth the other 300 pages. I imagine this is a book that would benefit from a second reading. May...
A Canticle for Leibowitz is different from virtually every other post-apocalyptic book I've ever read. It's set centuries after the nuclear war that destroyed 20th century civilization, but what sets it apart is how it shows people trying to rebuild. It's both optimistic (humanity can rebuild, even ...
Really three novellas strung together, sans schwerpunkten, though--and linked tenuously by details of setting alone, with the exception of one character. The setting itself is now standard post-apocalypse.Text opens with the continuity character, "a wiggling iota of black caught in the shimering ha...
TEN stars. A book that would NEVER EVER make it through to a small-time SF magazine let alone a major publisher today, far too Catholic (and unapologetically so) and one of the greatest books I've ever read. I think it's fortunate that I waited until my middle age to read this as I'd likely not ha...
A Canticle for Leibowitz is Catholic science fiction, clearly written in the aftermath of Hiroshima and the shadow of the Cold War. It is mesmerizing, drawing on history and speculating on the future, focused around a small monastery in the American Southwest. It is also profoundly pessimistic about...
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