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A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr. (author)

St. Leibowitz #1

Completed★ 3 / 5

Physical book

Release year
1959
Length
334 pages

Review

Canticle starts off really strong. I like the world building and early characters. Brother Francis and the first abbot are great. However as the book progresses and the cast of characters changes I have a harder time finding a connection to them. I do really like science fiction that explores religion and it's role in the future. From that angle I think the books mostly succeeds but not spectacularly. All in all I'm glad I read the book but I didn't love it. It had some interesting parts but ended up a bit too scattered.

Consumption history1

  1. Completed★ 3 / 5

    physical

External identifiers
goodreads
164154
openlibrary
OL2626638W