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Average rating3.9
A Canticle For Leibowitz is a novel that spans roughly 1,800 years and is split into 3 parts. It takes place after a nuclear war has left the world devastated and humanity is left in a new ‘Dark Ages'. We follow the Order of Leibowitz monks as they take on the mission of preserving human knowledge from prior to the ‘Flame Deluge' (their name for the nuclear war that left humanity scattered and devastated.)
Let me start off this review by saying I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH.
I've been very interested in dystopian science fiction recently and this is the most unique novel I've come across yet. This book was so hard to put down once I started reading it and I finished the final section in roughly an hour because it was so engrossing ..
The aspects of this book I particularly enjoyed was how it was separated into the three parts and how we could see humanity's progress in slowly rebuilding themselves. I loved the philosophical ideas regarding science and Christianity. This novel requires us to ask ourselves important questions like: Is it possible for human free will to change the course of the future or is history destined to repeat itself? A truly interesting perspective on human nature and one of the best novels I've read in a very long time.
*i apologize if this review is poorly written and all over the place it's the first one I've ever written