false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173214246m/258936.jpg 258936 12 This is the 30-years-in-coming sequel to Walter M. Miller's seminal work, <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i>. It chronicles the odyssey of Brother Blacktooth St. George, a fallen monk of the Leibowitz order who becomes secretary to the politically ambitious Cardinal Brownpony. Brownpony is involved in a complex scheme to break the rule of the Hannegan Empire, which dominates the 35th-century's post-apocalypse world. Even though Brownpony's plans will ultimately restore both the world and the declining Papacy to some form of order, he is not a religious man, although he is drawn to those who are. He sees something profoundly religious in Blacktooth, who on the surface seems to be a disgraced monk foundering in confusion because of his love for a woman, his semi-pagan visions of the Virgin Mary, and his nomadic heritage. Ultimately it seems that Brownpony's--and indeed humanity's--salvation may lie with Blacktooth, who will never quite realize how great is the gift he's been given. 250974 book 1996 Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman total:106|5:15|4:21|3:29|2:28|1:13| 106 315 179 13 2 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jun 28 19:27:22 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 08:01:53 -0700 2007 A Canticle for Liebowitz was thirty years in the making, but unfortunately, Miller seems to have forgotten how to write a novel in those decades. Many of the moral and ethical arguments that made Canticle so brilliant are still present, as is the occasional bit of dry humor, but these ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 07 13:27:38 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 13:28:38 -0700 2008 « L’héritage de Saint L...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Mon Jul 07 15:13:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 15:32:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 true false Thu Apr 02 19:05:21 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 19:05:25 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Wed Jun 24 23:27:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 23:30:18 -0700 2009 1 0 0 false false Tue Apr 14 10:43:32 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 10:43:47 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 09:00:30 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 09:04:17 -0700 2008
I don't know if Miller's interests changed over the intervening 30 years or if the substantial differences between Canticle and Wild Horse Woman reflect the t...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 07:31:30 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 07:51:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 25 21:41:39 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 21:43:27 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 01 11:20:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 29 17:57:38 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 22:45:53 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 22:45:53 -0800 2007 1 0 false false Tue May 20 11:19:56 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 11:24:15 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 14:47:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 07:09:05 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 30 10:02:33 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 10:02:33 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 27 04:06:21 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 04:06:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 22:59:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 22:59:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 21:05:58 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 21:05:58 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 16:51:56 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 16:51:56 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 08:36:34 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:36:34 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 16:12:34 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 16:12:34 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=258936