A Canticle for Leibowitz
1959 • 334 pages

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Average rating3.9

15

I had read this many years back and recalled thinking it a very good Sci-Fi novel. I have no reason to change my original rating.

Interestingly I do not recall thinking too much about it as a complex book of religious, Roman Catholic at least, thought back then. It was just post apocalypse full stop. But after finishing I was reading about the author and his participating in the bombing of Monte Cassino in WW2. For a deeply thoughtful and religious man his telling of an apocalyptic tale makes a lot of sense considering the horrors that he was present at and witness to. Well worth a reread after all these years.

January 1, 2016