Book Nerd’s Comments (group member since Dec 20, 2018)

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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.


338 pages

Total to Date: 73,515

It is really well written.

What did everybody think of Rachel at the end?

Nobody does.

Thanks. I was meaning to look those up.
There's a lot of Latin throughout the book.

Thanks. It appears several times.
Reading this I wish I understood Latin. You can get a little if you've studied a romance language but still plenty of things I don't understand.

Welcome Alena.

It's funny how each part ends with the buzzards.

Does anybody know what "AOL" means in this book?

I read Lolita a few years ago.
It wasn't even the pedophilia that bothered me that much. The guy was just messed up in the head. It's that he was such a creepy, manipulative piece of shit.

Great, It's interesting so fa and not even that much has happened.

I'm almost through the first part. It seems to be really just getting started.

Pam wrote: "I just checked out The Minpins. This is one I’ve never heard of before."
Cool. I'll read that one soon. I'm reading the kid's book in between other reads.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is as delicious as I remember.
It's funny that Willy Wonka makes all this stuff he doesn't approve of in his factory.

This is one I've wanted to read for a while now. It looks like a really interesting post-apocalyptic story.
I can't wait to see what "The Sacred Shopping List" is all about. :)

In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

Hi Ruthie. Tolkien is the best.

Welcome Noah.

Cool. I enjoyed it.

I've read the Odyssey series. I loved 2001 but, like Rama, I thought he should have just quit with the first book.
I'm glad there's no sequel to Childhood's End.

That looks really interesting.

I finished the book.

I don't know a lot about poetry but I thought it was weaker than the stories.
The rhyme scheme seems really bizarre to me. It's like he rhymes a line with any nearby line and some just don't rhyme with anything.