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I finally got around to reading this classic, and found this post-apocalyptic novel with relgious themes to be very thought-provoking and surprisingly humorous.
#192025 #1959 @Librarybelle
A Canticle for Leibowitz | 
pickI finally got around to reading this classic, and found this post-apocalyptic novel with relgious themes to be very thought-provoking and surprisingly humorous.
#192025 #1959 @Librarybelle
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!
#ABookADay2024
pickIf you would have told me I'd enjoy a book dealing heavily with organized religion and philosophies of mankind's destructive nature I'd probably not believe you but for some reason this worked for me. This had a lot more humor than I'd expected and even though most of it was sort of a downer there were moments of hope. It still feels relevant today despite being written in the late 50s
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I don‘t normally do this, but this book absolutely won‘t allow me to edit my thoughts down enough to fit Litsy‘s word count cap. So here‘s a link to my Goodreads review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2135109536
This was also my March #Doublespin for #BookspinBingo
It‘s a gorgeous day out! Letting The Wyrmling play in his water table while I attempt to get in a few pages of this new read. Forecast says it‘s supposed to drop back down to the 30-40 range in the next few days so we‘re enjoying it while we can. 😔
Watching the last episode of Fallout tonight and ordering my favorite pizza. It‘s going to be a great day! 🥰
pickA truly fascinating read. Dystopia? SciFi? And yet, an almost religious — how about religion-adjacent, thoughtful, and provoking story. Having read just a few glimpses of tidbits about this book that I somehow missed ever hearing about, that it was a set of shorter stories that the author linked to create one novel. That it was basically his last book, is that right? And. And,…. That the author died by suicide. Why is that relevant?! I cannot ⬇️
Flying back to KS via stop in TX from MS. Starting this on the plane home.
I have a feeling this is going to be my year to conquer #BookSpin! I actually finished both spins in the month they were drawn which is a huge achievement after the past two years of fails. New to the list this month are the tagged and The Space Between Worlds. Still adding books from my tbr in order of highest page count so that hopefully by the end of the year all the chonky bois will have been drawn ahead of the end of the year crazies.
HAPPY #BOOKSPIN DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!
I'm still behind for the year but am always excited for draw day. I'm really looking forward to The Raven Tower but am unsure about the tagged because I've never really looked into it before. I just know it's on my SFFBC list that I want to complete.
"Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenton fast in the desert.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
pick🎧 I loved this book & I don‘t speak Latin.
Nuclear war has devastated the planet in the 26th century and most of those remaining become self proclaimed simpletons roaming the countryside burning books and executing anyone smart enough to drag them out of the dark ages.
Leibowitz is an engineer that engineered the nuclear holocaust who now wants to save humanity.
There‘s a lot of Latin.
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I can't believe it's #BookSpin list time already! This month's newcomers to the list are the tagged and Perdido Street Station. I'm still way behind on my past months' picks but the best part is always the excitement of draw day. Thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks
panI know this is a classic and been wanting to read it for years. I think it‘s an important read for it‘s philosophical teachings and learnings, but it bored the tears out of me. I just wasn‘t the audience for it. I would never talk anyone out of reading it.
bailedCould I BE anymore bored? 🥸
Read halfway through, I hate doing it but I have to bail! ❌️
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
pickScience fiction, for the most part, does not age well. Instead, with time it becomes a series of observations on what the author didn‘t foresee, or on predictions that did not come to pass. Canticle for Leibowitz, in contrast, is readable 50 years after it was written. It remains an entertaining (though somewhat overlong) story of science, religion and the political overlay that inevitably ignores them both, leading to war and destruction.
pick4/5 ⭐️s // the only reason why I give this four stars instead of five is because I wasn‘t a fan of the writing style. however, the story itself is absolutely incredible. so much to unpack that my brain is still trying to sort out!
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 283
#tbrmountain #bookbuyingdiet
bailedI don‘t have a pic b/c I read this as a library book a while ago. I thought due to my love of dystopian fiction and my interest in religion (especially Catholicism, though I‘m not Catholic), that I would love this book. Quite the opposite! It was painful slogging through this. There are only two books I couldn‘t finish, and this is one of them. Deeply disappointing!
pickFast-paced novel with a great plot. He saw the future, at least part of it.
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.(Goodreads)
pickJust finished it yesterday, right in time to start my #bookspin title. A captivating post-apocalyptic read, I loved the monks' work to try to save past writings and everything else.
Unfortunately, unlike other reviewers, instead of hope for the future, I mostly see the tragedy of the human race messing it up; I guess I am more pessimistic than most. Despite all this, overall it is a good read, for any fiction reader, science fiction fan or not.
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, as long as they don‘t seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
pickAccording to Goodreads, I‘ve read this before and I had given it a three. Past Erica is a jerk because I don‘t remember this book at all and it was excellent. Book two done for Tome Infinity and Beyond Round 3. Now to continue on the wonderful book The Death of Grass. This readathon has basically just been an excuse to do rereads.
Book 2 for the Tome Infinity and Beyond Readathon! I‘m counting this book as my America book. This is also for my sci-fi book club so I have my sticky notes ready. I‘m prepared to tab this bad boy up!!
pickA 1959 book that was unknown to me, discovered for my year of SFF. It reminded me a little of Foundation and also Fahrenheit 451, with the concept of civilisation destroying itself, rebuilding, only to destroy itself again. The book is told in three linked novellas - each one the forgotten prehistory of the next. For such a serious theme there is also humour and fascinating characters 4.5 stars (pic: piece of a recent New Yorker review)
My local library had its first sci-fi/fantasy book club meeting tonight and I think it was an awesome turnout. We had seven people and the tagged book is gonna be our first read. As an extra perk, I own a lot of the books we‘re considering and this is a great opportunity for me to read them. I‘m not awesome at making friends outside of the Internet so I‘m really pumped for this book club!
Loved The Westing Game so much, I thought I'd take another @Liberty classic recommendation. #allthebooks
"Miserable old pretzel!"
I need to start using this.
pickLeibowitz is primarily a cautionary tale about nuclear war and history repeating itself. However, the main theme to me is the unreliability of history and religion. I finished reading and thought about how much out world has been shaped by misconceptions, misconstrued beliefs, ignorance, lies, and misplaced power. Some of the science fiction seems outdated, but the themes are just as important now as they‘ve ever been.
Tried this in print years ago, and could not get into it. Giving it a second go on audiobook.
pickI was worried when I heard this was chosen for my book club but I really enjoyed it. Preferred the first two stories, but the third was good too. Looking forward to reading the sequel at some point. 4/5 #specfic #septemberreads #shortstories
Canticle For Leibovitz
John Connolly
Colony (Just finished Season 3 and am sad it was cancelled)
Chinese
This is the first one I‘ve done. Not sure if I should go back and do A & B
#manicmonday @JoScho
so-soWell, I judged this one too soon. I was really excited about it at first. Brother Francis did the things and it was fun and I really liked Brother Francis.
And then other things happened and I got bored and I wanted Brother Francis back. It didn‘t go where I thought it was going to go.
It is a cold, disgusting, gray day here in Maine, so I‘m staying in bed with an old friend. *wink wink* *nudge nudge* Know what I mean? (Yep, I mean I‘m reading one of my favorite books.)🖤
Holiday reading, I am taking xmas week off. I may actually read them all, because my computer is fucked :(
I‘m part of two Postal Book Clubs and this is the first in my Smooch Island Book Club! So excited to get started.
pickThis book was so good! Good enough that I want to go out and buy a copy for my permanent library, plus read the sequel. A meditation on the aftermath of manmade destruction, and whether humans are doomed to repeat mistakes. The eternal conflict between spiritual and secular values runs all through the book. It's thought-provoking and well-written. No wonder it won the Hugo Award.
It has been a while since I read this book, but I remember it well as a classic sci-fi/ dystopian fiction and at this price on Audible it is well worth the purchase.
so-soIt might be that I listened to this on audiobook and hated the narrator or that I've been having a very stressful week and not focusing, but I retained so little of this book it's not even funny. I did like the overall concept, but it was a bit dense and heavy-handed for my taste.
