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A review by beckinasec
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
4.0
Woah.
Thinking lots of thoughts. Want someone else to tell me some thoughts to think.
In this world, we'd be set way before the book even begins. But imagine if we discovered we were just rebuilding a civilization that had reached our heights and destroyed itself!! Would that be the result? COULD we lose everything? I think it's the realistic possibility that makes it so disturbing. Would a rebuilt civilization look almost exactly the same — is the peak of human achievement set and immobile, or could it look completely different, because of the completely different humans that put things in motion?
And in this book, Christianity is the one thing that stays firmly intact.
Is it a comfort or is it a horror that the world could destroy itself over and over and humanity would still cling on and rebuild so as to make the same mistakes?
The book is a slow burn. It's not outrageous or over the top. Everything doesn't fit together all neatly at the end - I come away not understanding things, and why they were there and seemed important, or whether or not I'm supposed to understand them.
I want to read it again.
Thinking lots of thoughts. Want someone else to tell me some thoughts to think.
In this world, we'd be set way before the book even begins. But imagine if we discovered we were just rebuilding a civilization that had reached our heights and destroyed itself!! Would that be the result? COULD we lose everything? I think it's the realistic possibility that makes it so disturbing. Would a rebuilt civilization look almost exactly the same — is the peak of human achievement set and immobile, or could it look completely different, because of the completely different humans that put things in motion?
And in this book, Christianity is the one thing that stays firmly intact.
Is it a comfort or is it a horror that the world could destroy itself over and over and humanity would still cling on and rebuild so as to make the same mistakes?
The book is a slow burn. It's not outrageous or over the top. Everything doesn't fit together all neatly at the end - I come away not understanding things, and why they were there and seemed important, or whether or not I'm supposed to understand them.
I want to read it again.