Reddit reviews A Canticle for Leibowitz

I'm glad I could introduce someone to it :) It's a really great distopian sci-fi book, but it's also really depressing. https://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp/0553273817

Non-fiction:

• Summa of the Summa
  
• Anselm's Monoslogion, Proslogion, and Gaunilo's Reply
  
• Peter Abelard's Ethics and Dialoge Between a Philosopher, a Christian, and a Jew
  
• This is just barely pre-Reformation, but I think it is valuable because it explains the views of someone who was faithful to the Catholic Church during the Reformation, but still thought it should change: Erasmus' In Praise of Folly
  
  Fiction
  
  
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
  
• The Lord of the Rings

Try A Canticle for Liebiwitz by Walter M. Miller.

Confermo sul fatto che sia un gran bel libro!

Io personalmente l'avevo acquistato in inglese a meno di dieci euro (precisamente da Amazon, ma eventualmente si trova pure su ebay).

Se invece preferisci un'edizione più vecchiotta c'è su Amazon a pochi euro in più.

A Canticle For Leibowitz

For me, A Canticle for Leibowitz is one of the best.

I'm fairly terrible at giving good synopses, so I'll let Amazon's summary do the work for me:

> 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.

It's a seriously devastating book. You should be able to find a used copy of it somewhere fairly easy, it's considered a bit of a classic. Also, the Amazon link I provided isn't even the cheapest (new) edition you can get, that would be the mass-market paperback, but I linked to the trade paperback one first because it has the best cover-art.

Also, I just recommended A Canticle for Liebowitz by Miller in another thread, and noticed in an Amazon review someone pointing out that he is very similar to McCarthy. Thinking about it I think that's about right.

http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp/0553273817

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.


An incredible book about a post apocalyptic America. Kind of talks about the human condition.

In A Canticle for Leibowitz when paper is one of the most precious things there is, all the church has to go on is a shopping list. lol.

You will enjoy the hell out of that book. Next, you should read "A Canticle for Liebowitz".

J'ai lu Un cantique pour Leibowitz.

J'avais envie d'un truc post apo qui ne soit pas pour ado, qui ne soit pas un power trip pour un héro sans peur et sans reproche, se battant contre un monde devenu hostile et fou.

C'est l'histoire d'un ordre de moine qui dévouent leur vie à la préservation d'un savoir devenu impie pour la population (alors que les scientifiques furent brulés vifs et martyrisés au lendemain de l'holocauste nucléaire).

On sent bien la lassitude de l'auteur vis à vis des batailles d'égo des hommes, combien leurs petites lâchetés n'ont rien d'extraordinaire et que dans le grand schéma certains principes comptent plus.

C'est de plus un vétéran de la guerre du Vietnam qui a vécu dans le sud des état-unis. Il a été choqué après avoir dû lors d'une mission bombarder un ordre de moine.

Je ne suis pas complètement d'accord avec ses idées, mais c'est quelqu'un d'honnête. Il ne se moque pas des idéologies qu'il ne défend pas. Ce bouquin m'a permis de me retirer un peu du monde ambiant et de réfléchir sur des questions plus profondes.

C'est un beau bouquin, je vous le conseille, en anglais si possible (je ne connais pas la traduction française, je ne sais pas si elle est bien).

Sinon là je lis Lolita de Nabokov. En anglais c'est très impressionant, la maîtrise pour un mec pour qui c'est la seconde langue. C'est aussi assez bizarre de se sentir dégueulasse et écoeuré par le héro en le lisant, tout en s'y identifiant simplement en le lisant.

Have you read this?

If not, it's really great and I couldn't stop thinking about this while reading Anathem.

Not zombie related, but A Canticle for Leibowitz is an interesting take on society carrying on after the earth is destroyed.

And SeveNeves by Stephenson is about a group of people that left earth before a cosmic event made it uninhabitable, coming back thousands of years later to start over.

http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp/0553273817

That's written. There's also a free audiobook/radioplay here:

https://archive.org/details/ACanticleForLiebowitz