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THREAD: on reading A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ for the first time. This is a classic dystopian future novel from 1959 - with a Catholic twist. Best of you don't know too much going in... but to give you an idea (without spoilers)....
...it is basically three losely-connected stories through the time around a community of monks in the South-West of the US after an atomic war... guarding knowledge and praying...
... this is a novel for you if you like philosophically charged stories in an epic dystopian setting - with the dryness of the desert.. love of Latin and of monks/monastery helps... it's VERY Catholic 
but visionary and as touching as it is stark...
but visionary and as touching as it is stark...
..it asks the central questions about Man and Society through a dystopian lens. There are humble lives, grim and at the same time incredibly consoling deaths... and a final chapter that I would like to see in the 70mm Christopher Nolan version......
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..you won't like it if you enjoy your Sci-fi action-filled.. there's lots of talking going on, boyo... and Atomic War is ever present (as befits a novel from 1959). If you are an atheist or an agnostic all the religious stuff might be a tad too much...
...finally, I have discovered one of my favourite characters in literature in Brother Francis....
Thanks for the interest, back to doing ambassador stuff now...
Thanks for the interest, back to doing ambassador stuff now...
...oh and a HUGE thank you to all my followers who have written in to encourage me that I should read this! I owe you one!
