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A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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Start date
January 12, 2016
Finish date
January 18, 2016

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Kelsey
Jan 07, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I feel really torn about writing a review for this book. On the one hand, I feel like I could write a 3000 word essay without much trouble at all. That would be boring and redundant though. Plenty of such reviews have already been written, and better than I could write. The obvious theme is about humans failing to learn from their mistakes, technology giving people the means to end themselves (on both micro and macro scales), about death. This is all handled very well. It's post-apocalyptic in s ...more
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Holli
Sep 21, 2018 rated it it was ok
Abandoned.

I got about halfway through and I just couldn't do it anymore. It was so much hard work to read and nothing was paying off for it. Just more and more misery and bleakness. ...more
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Matt Ney
Jun 24, 2025 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: owned
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Patty
May 17, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Dick
Feb 08, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Jennifer Daum
Sep 10, 2010 rated it it was ok
Robin
Nov 05, 2010 marked it as to-read
Christina
Apr 07, 2011 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2004
Kate
Aug 31, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: science-fiction, apocalyptic
Lisa Tipescu
Sep 24, 2011 marked it as to-read
Kate Sherrod
Mar 05, 2012 rated it really liked it
Nate Morse
Mar 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: end-of-the-world
Kalyan
Jul 19, 2014 rated it really liked it
Krysta
Aug 04, 2014 marked it as to-read
Melissa Lashley
Oct 01, 2015 marked it as to-read
Jason
Feb 20, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2016
Nc
Mar 24, 2016 rated it did not like it
Jillypenny
Jan 22, 2017 marked it as to-read
The Lady Anna
Oct 29, 2017 marked it as own-but-have-not-read
Shelves: fiction, overdue-podcast-episode
Gary Huang
Jan 16, 2018 rated it it was ok
Caitlin
Dec 13, 2018 marked it as to-read
Thorn
Dec 16, 2019 marked it as to-read
Sapiophial
Jan 14, 2020 marked it as to-read
Erika
Feb 25, 2020 marked it as to-read
Amanda
Jun 24, 2021 marked it as to-read
Nichole Cianci
Jan 25, 2024 rated it really liked it
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