From the Bookshelf of The Walking Read - A group for zombies and post-apoc fiction…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
“...how can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps," said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.”
Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a rare gem of speculative fiction—profound, sardonic, and hauntingly hopeful. It invites readers into a post-apocalyptic world where humanity’s relentless cycles of destruction and rebirth are both tragic and absurd. Yet Miller resists offering easy answers. Instead of condemning science o ...more
"Perhaps," said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.”
Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a rare gem of speculative fiction—profound, sardonic, and hauntingly hopeful. It invites readers into a post-apocalyptic world where humanity’s relentless cycles of destruction and rebirth are both tragic and absurd. Yet Miller resists offering easy answers. Instead of condemning science o ...more
As chilling, funny, and insightful as when I read it in the Literary Types class by ES Rabkin, or John Lawler's Science, Scientists and Science Fiction at University of Michigan.
...more
I do not know why but this book did nothing for me. It was well written, interesting but hardly a classic that it is often portrayed as. Not sure what others see in this that I just did not get.
May 30, 2009
Bill
marked it as to-read
Mar 18, 2011
Edward H. Busse, III
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
to-read-owned
Mar 15, 2014
Theresa
marked it as to-read
Oct 22, 2015
Leia Paddleford
marked it as to-read
Dec 04, 2016
Jadus Lentil
marked it as to-read
Mar 07, 2017
Landon
marked it as to-read
Jun 01, 2019
Michalis Altous
marked it as to-read
May 18, 2024
Kendra
added it
