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... Park by Crichton, Michael
Neuromancer by Gibson, William
The Nine Billion Names of God by Clarke, Arthur C.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller, Walter M.
Nightfall by Asimov, Isaac
Starship Troopers by Heinlein, Robert A.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein, Robert A ... Oh, I think you're going to love Canticle for Leibowitz. It's one of my favorite books, one of the few I've reread several times. ... read Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster on January 6, so I will have to finish that too.
6. A friend gave me a copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz by later M. Miller, so that's also on my shortlist.
7. My father gave me a copy of the The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd, so that's also ... Thanks for the welcome.
drneutron, Anathem is fantastic thus far. NS seems to be channeling A Canticle for Leibowitz and Foundation, with extra awesomesauce. Read it! ... at 70 things that at 47 I do not understand yet I am sure. I have read Earth Abides and liked it very much, I own A Canticle for Leibowitz although I have not read it yet. The Day of the Triffids is already in the BlackHole and now I am adding Gather, Darkness!. I hope you are ... ... longer.
Not that I've read any Nabokov, you understand.
The Road, bah. GOOD post-apocalyptic lit? Earth Abides. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Even Gather, Darkness! is good, though dated, and The Day of the Triffids still sends chills up my spine 35 years after my first read of it.
... 60F.) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Excellent dystopian fiction...like lots of sci-fi coming out around that time, Miller focused on nuclear war and its terrible legacies. Definitely a book for historians; as the novel follows a particular monastic order over the centuries, ... ... Gilpin Faust
4. In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
5. The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault
SF/Fantasy
1. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
2. The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn
3. The Riddle-Master trilogy by Patricia McKillip
4. Sailing to Sa ... In not any particular order, these were the best I read this year:
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
The Road to Guilford Courthouse by John Buchanan
With Zeal and With Bayonet Only by Matthew Spring ... #10 - One could think we should have noticed when A Canticle for Leibowitz was the next title after the numbers. ... Bernard Beckett (cataloged as a YA novel, probably)
The Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller ... I would have a different answer if you asked me tomorrow. In no set order:
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
3. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate ... ... Five which taught me that we don't need nuclear weapons to kill huge numbers of people and destroy beauty.
A Canticle for Leibowitz which taught me that religion and faith can be complex things with mixed messages, some of which are amusing.
Riddley Walker which taught me ... ... today and brought home Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond and Robin Hobb's The Dragon Keeper. I bought a copy of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller. ... and forget about the story!
Ahem sorry to side track your thread. To get it back on track.. I have always been put off A Canticle for Leibowitz because I supposed it was too heavy with theology.. but maybe I will give it a try. thanks for your thoughts. I don't have a Christian background either, and there were liturgical type references in A Canticle for Leibowitz that I had to Google. But there wasn't enough of it to be distracting or annoying. So I decided I couldn't wait and I finished off A Canticle for Leibowitz this morning. It's my first one in the dystopian/post-apocalyptic category and I'm not sure what I thought about it. It was more of a discussion of religion vs the secular world than I expected, and less about post-apocalypti ... ... think it would make it into my Top 10 Discworld novels.
I'm not sure what I'll finish next, though I am part way through A Canticle For Leibowitz. Hopefully I can leave it alone until I'm done with assessment next week. It reminds me a little of A Canticle for Leibowitz when you get done with Mr. Blue. Could also be the "sequel" to A Canticle for Leibowitz, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
One of the gods of the nomadic tribes is a buzzard woman or something along those lines. Possibly A Canticle for Leibowitz - 'priest' after an apocalypse. I haven't read it so don't know about a bird woman, but I believe there were several oddities with him. Originally published 1960.
Another, fainter, possibility - The Fellowship of the Talisman. Traveling and priests (though ... ... it very much, but never got back to it for some reason. I have it and Declare and Last Call on my tbr list.
I loved A Canticle for Leibowitz! Absolutely loved it.
I review audiobooks (for SFFaudio.com) and started to listen to Anathem, but didn't get more than one CD in before ... ... chiming in with seconds and thirds) for the recommendation. With all of you so enjoying it, I'll definitely have to keep A Canticle for Leibowitz in mind. I don't usually read much dystopian fiction but I read A Canticle for Leibowitz last year specifically because it kept coming up in articles at work (I'm also a librarian).
Enjoyed it very much. >33
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a wonderful book! I'd forgotten about the library connection. You might want to try A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller for your library category. I'm reading it now and it's quite good! ... width="220" height="250">
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1. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller (finished 7/11/09)
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Possible candidates:
The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood (I don't actually own ... A couple of apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic suggestions for your list:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller (one of the all-time best stories written, IMHO. A story told in 3-parts. The first is set a thousand years after nuclear near-annihilation of the human race. Part 1: Survivors ... Sounds like A Canticle for Leibowitz. ... rland.
As far as post-apocalyptic novels, that's an awfully big genre. Some really excellent ones in the sci-fi area are A Canticle for Leibowitz, Riddley Walker, and The Postman. A Canticle for Leibowitz
... to keep it, but I feel like maybe I should make another attempt to wrap my brain around it. I have that same reaction to A Canticle for Leibowitz and A Case of Conscience.
The novel begins in 1755 among the Diola people of West Africa. Part 1 is the story of the young girl Bayangumay ... Finished A Canticle for Leibowitz. I just started The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. My own Number One is definitely A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Ranking second is one that hasn't been mentioned yet, Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. ... Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin
35. Genghis Khan - John Man
36. The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
37. A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
38. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale
39. Consider Phlebas - ... ... all of them. I have read 3 of your honorable mentions, though. I've actually been thinking it is time for a reread of A Canticle for Leibowitz, since I read (on LT, I'm sure) recently that Neal Stephenson's Anathem is a similar story and I am hoping to get to Anathem soon.
I really ... ... to think long and hard about which books would make the cut.
Honourable mention: Children of Men, The Long Tomorrow, A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Handmaid's Tale (I am Canadian after all) - I'm sorry, I'll stop now.
Check out my actual blog at http://wisdomofbookmonkey.blogspot.com/ I'm about half way through A Canticle for Leibowitz. It's a good read so far. Post-apocalyptic science fiction is my favorite sub-genre. I haven't found an end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it book that I haven't liked. Even the zombie stuff like World War Z and I am Legend. #181 rhansen55. The story of Anathem is more fleshed out. What I found a bit dissapointing in A Canticle For Leibowitz was that just when I was into the characters, and when I wanted to know what happened next, we skipped to the next section. The relation between the two is in the fact that ... ... Anathem now? The only book that I can recall having a profound and lasting effect on me was Atlas Shrugged but so far A Canticle for Leibowitz is a good read. Finished reading A Canticle For Leibowitz which is an impressive novel, even if some parts of the novel escape me.
Now, on to Foundation which should require no introduction. #117, rhansen, I wouldn't say A Canticle for Leibowitz was life changing for me, but it did make me think, especially after I had finished it. And it changed my life in so far that I have discovered a world of SF that is not all galactic battles and evil aliens! I do recommend the book, I loved ... I am reading A Canticle for Leibowitz on the advice of someone who described the book as 'Life Changing'. I am about half way through the book. Unfortuately, so far, I still have the same life I started with. ... mmended.
Also, after reading a not so good review of Anathem, in which Stephenson was accused of stealing his idea from A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, I picked up that book. Another wow there. While reading it I wasn't so impressed with the story overall, but the strength is ... I just finished A canticle for Leibowitz and highly recommend it, even for people who don't like science fiction.
I am now reading The suspicions of Mr. Whicher which is about one of the first real detectives in the Victorian age... Finished A canticle for Leibowitz and loved it. Can anyone recommend similar books? I especially love the idea of a few people keeping knowledge safe from the ignorant masses (like in Leibowitz or in Anathem). Finished A Canticle for Leibowitz. I didn't like parts 2 and 3 as much as I did the first part, but I do like the fact that there is a bigger idea behind it. Knowing more about the author and when and why he wrote it also helps to make it a better book. I highly recommend it to everyone, as it ... I am reading The Last Vampire Collector's Edition Volume 1 which I am enjoying.
#76 - A Canticle for Liebowitz is in my TBR pile. I started it and made it through the first section which I enjoyed, but put it down so as not to finish it too quickly. I love this site - so manygood books, so ... ... class, so I could ask someone.
After all that non-fiction I went back to some science fiction with Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. I am only on page 113, but I am loving it so far... Just started reading A canticle for Leibowitz and I am really loving it so far. I picked it up because I loved Anathem, and read in a (not so good) review that Stephenson really just stole the idea from Miller. So, I picked up Miller, and what a good idea it proved to be.
I am still loving ... ... Newford Collection by Charles de Lint
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
9. Ringworld by Larry Niven
10. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller ... on Zanzibar (which may be a little dated), Robert Sheckley's Immortality, Inc., or Walter Miller's A Canticle for Liebowitz. If you like books that are somewhat incomprehensible, Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker or Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren.
... ... "classics" together, please. I have encountered some classic SF novels as an adult that I was extremely impressed with - A Canticle For Leibowitz and The Dispossessed both spring to mind. ... the ones I listed I have read. I was refering to those books mentioned by other people.
Example; I've read and enjoyed A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M Miller Jr. (1959) and Childhoods End by Clark.
Where as Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937), After Worlds Collide Philip Wylie (1 ... ... Bear (11-06-2009)
5. Anathem - Neal Stephenson (03-03-2009)
6. Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
7. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
3. Historical adventure (Da Vinci Code like)
1. The Venetian Betrayal - Steve Berry (04-07-2009)
2. ... bobmcconnaughey in Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Jul 23, 2009, 10:05pm) 10-11 A Wrinkle in Time; 1066 and all that
13 Lord of the Rings; a canticle for Leibowitz
15 the Alexandria Quartet; the quiet American
20 be here now - Absences; the structure of scientific revolutions; das capital
25 Limits to Growth - (orig. Club of Rome rpt) ... A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Two very nice reviews, Carolyn. I've read a few apocalyptic books (including A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is very good), and I really enjoyed the philosophical aspect in Earth Abides. I'm glad you liked it too.
edited to fix touchstones ... 2 books--it would be interesting to compare these 3 stories that start with the same premise. However, I already have A Canticle for Leibowitz and On the Beach in my library so those will probably be the next post-apocalyptic novels I read.
... especially the Jack London one. Maybe I'll make "post-apocalyptic" a category for next year.
I think I have A Canticle for Leibowitz somewhere. I know I've meant to read it for many years, but have never gotten around to it. I'm looking forward to your review of that one. I've ... ... 2 books--it would be interesting to compare these 3 stories that start with the same premise. However, I already have A Canticle for Leibowitz and On the Beach so those will probably be the next post apocalyptic novels I read.
Thanks for moving your lists down--it made it easier for ... ... wrote.
Religiously themed books can be well written. Even the ones with which I disagree. I have previously enjoyed A Canticle for Leibowitz and A Case of Conscience, both religiously themed science fiction novel. But if you put The Sparrow up against the religiously themed The Broth ... ... I want to read to take a chance on a book that doesn't sound that good and that I would have to track down. :-) I do have Canticle for Liebowitz and plan to read it this year. I didn't realize it was three stories. I'm taking my first steps into apocalyptic novels this year--Earth Abides ... ... is that continued use of it could result in our world blowing up. But who's going to agree to stop using energy?
Like A Canticle for Liebowitz, it was apparently written as three separate stories. And it shows. And I think it was less successful that way for Asimov than for Miller. In Asimo ... ... like. Post holocaust England under the heel of the fascist boot that wants to stomp on humanity's face, forever.
Oh.. a Canticle for Leibowitz
niven and pournelle have the sensibility of a 13 yr old boy circa 1965. If you want trite, they're your team.
I'd suggest Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Better than A Canticle for Leibowitz and A Clockwork Orange rolled together, once you've got your head around the future dialect that it's written in. But it's pessimistic, so potentially depressing
If you'd like something with a less gloomy ... I am loving Anathem, although the apocalypse is not the central issue in the way it is in Canticle for Liebowitz. You might like Dune which is both the story of a society that has (over thousands of years) developed post-apocalyptically as well as focusing in on life on a desert planet (which ... ... second).
So... perhaps it's time to check out one of my favourite topics again.
Oh, and please don't recommend A Canticle for Liebowitz. I tried reading it as a child, and after failing to get into it have never revisited it. I know it's out there and may pick it up again.
Oth ... And yet another fan and recommendation for A Canticle for Leibowitz. this has been hashed over at length on the SF thread - but my intro to SF, which stuck, consisted of Clarke, l'Engle, a canticle for Leibowitz and Bradbury all in jr high and (except for a wrinkle in time which my mom got for us) all were in our school library. Soon thereafter came PKDick, Dune, ... A Canticle for Leibowitz is definitely one of the good ones. I should reread it one of these days. #20: I am going to be reading A Canticle for Leibowitz some time this year. Good to know that it is worth the read.
I hope your work slows up for you some! Updated with A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Wow, this a fantastic book. Much grimmer than I expected. It was extremely well written (better than Leguin and almost up there, but not quite, with Wolfe) and definitely one of the best of the Masterworks I have read so far.
M ... I'm almost finished A Canticle for Leibowitz for my dystopian lit category. It was a bit slow to begin with but picked up at the half way mark.
Now that I think of it, The Road and the first parts of Canticle for Leibowitz are pretty grim. Still, I think Miller was probably optimistic to imagine a second advanced future for humankind. ... one of the finest pieces of writing that SF has produced. How about The Dying Earth?
I heartily second the motion on A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Stars My Destination, Dune, and The Fifth Head of Cerberus. I also recently reread Out of the Silent Planet and was favorably ... ... impact and year...
the dystopia classic:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
a study of mankind:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller (1959)
and squeaking in under the wire, a one-of-a-kind worldbuilder:
Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury (1982)
... ... Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Nova by Samuel Delany
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (I didn't like Childhood's End...)
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Rediscov ... #35
The thing about making lists is that there is always one that I miss, and see later. In this instance, A Canticle for Leibowitz. Excellent book. ... Poul Anderson (1953)
A Dream Of Wessex by Christopher Priest (1977)
Timescape by Gregory Benford (1980)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller (1959)
Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1968)
Pavane by Keith Roberts (1969)
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg ( ... ... books.
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny.
Emergence by David R. Palmer
The Year Of The Qu ... ... scribble, scribble - eh, Mr. Gibbon?") Some I know that I will never finish: Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley, A Canticle for Leibowitz. (Sorry, fans.) Then there's George Meredith. I was an English major. I should have read Meredith. So far I have thrown The Ordeal of Richard ... ... Robinson
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Ring Around The Sun by Clifford Simak
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller
and many other revelations. embarrassing riches. A Canticle for Leibowitz isn't in the SF Masterworks series. Neither is The Left Hand of Darkness. Or are you including the short-lived hardback SF Masterworks series? ... up is The Left Hand of Darkness. Depending on how much reading time I can pull together this month, I hope to also read A Canticle for Leibowitz, I Am Legend, Cities in Flight, Star Maker and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Since you enjoy apocalyptic stories, have you read the classics? A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin, The Postman by David Brin, Emergence by David R. Palmer? ... a long time to come: Blish's A Case of Conscience, Straczynski's Babylon 5, and Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, and others are in this vein. ... for Literature?
No opinion.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Years ago, I imagined A Canticle for Leibowitz produced as a three part mini-series with Jack Nicholson playing different roles in each time period.
12) What book would you least like to see ... Hmmm...The Warden looks interesting. (/adds to ever-growing TBR list)
Just finished Canticle - my thoughts on it are here. Thanks! Curious to see what you think when you get to it.
18. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (278 p.)
First off, this is probably a good time to mention that I got a stack of books from my husband for my birthday a few weeks ago and am working my way through them. Knowing ... ... reader of SF, in no particular order:
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Hyperio ... ... Destination - Alfred Bester
12. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
13. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
14. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
15. The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1 - Robert Kirkman
16. Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
17. Flowers for Alger ... ... Niven
6. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
7. Have Space Suit - Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
8. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
9. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
10. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
11. Dune by Frank Herbert
12 ... ... Man Who Folded Himself - David Gerrold
Jumper - Stephen Gould
Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Dune - Frank Herbert
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Hover Car Racer - Matthew Reilly
Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
I'm sure I will have forgotten ... ... Longyear
First Cycle
Star Healer
Star Surgeon
Time Travelers Strictly Cash
The Worlds of H. Beam Piper
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Circus World
Four-Day Planet
Fuzzies and Other People
Fuzzy Bones
The Fuzzy Papers: Little Fuzzy & Fuzzy Sapiens
House of the Wolf ... ... Bester (reread 2008)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (reread 2006)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (reread 2007)
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller (it's been awhile, but I remember much of it so vividly, that has to count for something)
*edited to add dates last read due to ... Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling & William Gibson
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
The People Trap by Robert Sheckley
Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
... Interesting books! I'm reading A Canticle for Leibowitz now, but am still on part 1. Quite liking it so far. ... the main character founds a religion.
I also recommend Dune, Calculating God, The Sparrow, Children of God and A Canticle for Liebowitz. I've read both the short story and novel A Case of Conscience. The short story is better. And the Russell novels are much better depictions of Je ... ... seen, called Fool's Run. For some reason I read it every so often.
5. A favorite from many years ago, Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. ... ago and was not all that thrilled... which is odd. I expected to really get into that one. I had the same problem with A canticle For Liebowitz. Seems like the more famous of these types never quite cut it for me.
So thanks to everyone who has recommended Brin. And if you have any post-ap ... ... topic, if the reader is interested in Christian-themed SF, as her profile suggests she might be, I would highly recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz, and might suggest looking at C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy.
I'd be more hesitant to recommend Gene Wolfe. He is a Christian SF/Fantasy author, is ... Canticle for Leibowitz is rough for many, I think. Though I love it, many I've recommended it to have said "meh" or "too much filler" or "I needed a (*&#$ Latin dictionary". I'd steer clear of that one unless that is an acceptable reaction in your book club.
ETA: See, I told you SiaSL ... ... one in which all the components are human.
An older, classic and still very readable post holocaust novel is Canticle for Leibowitz - one of the books that got me hooked into SF at an impressionable age. But adults can enjoy it just as much as young teens, i'd think.
For ... ... sterminds
The Island of the Colorblind
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
The Planets
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Sailing from Byzantium
The Stolen Child
Wild Robert
The Pinhoe Egg
My Sister's Keeper
Lavoisier in the Year ... ... religion and myth, and those are just the obvious ones. It was a bit of a slog, but very much worth it.
I also finished A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, which Also had strong religious themes running through it, following as it does the story of a post-holocaust abbey, dedicated ... ... reading group is reading this for a class and wanted us to join in the discussion; no other suggestion gained momentum.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller; science fiction which I may well have read and forgotten that gets constant mention so I better have it. It also fits my ... ... There are also some short story collections in there.
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Burning Chrome by William Gibson
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (not including some of the ... A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Man Plus by Frederick Pohl
The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
... and one off-the-wall mention:
Giles Goat-boy by John Barth ... eBay in hardcover editions (some lightly remaindered), all in pretty decent condition, among them the bookclub edition of A Canticle of Leibowitz and a copy of The Ringworld Engineers. Now I can toss my old paperback of Leibowitz.
Then there are my Kindle purchases. Between this ... I did read a lot of sf, but have fallen out of practice. I got A canticle for Leibowitz from the library so I'm going to try to ease my way back in. Sadly, my library don't seem to have Farthing ... in their categories, enabling the rest of us to start trying to fill them in. In your Dystopia category, you might consider Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller, if you haven't read it already. After a WAY too busy holiday season, I finally picked A Canticle for Leibowitz back up and finished it. I'm glad I did! Next up for me is a giant space opera called Pandora's Star, and in the non-fiction department, The Seven-Storey Mountain. ... and the Sorceror's Stone finished January 12, 2009,
The Hobbit
Ender's Game finished January 10, 2009
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Humor:
Lake Wobegone Days
Three Men in a Boat
Most of P.G. Wodehouse
The Complete Saki
Spy:
Secret Pilgrim finished, Jan. 7< ... ...
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson - still want to finish but other more "fun" books were calling to me
A Canticle for Leibowitz - still need to finish the last 30 or pages, but I know it will be very disturbing, so I'm putting it off
Classroom Instruction That Works - ... The Man in the High Castle
World War Z
A Canticle for Liebowitz
The Years of Rice and Salt
... my five favorites (in no particular order):
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Year of Wonders
The Time Travelers Wife
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Book Thief
3. Ad Astra
1. Childhood's End
2. A Fisherman of The Inland Sea
3. Chocky
4. A Canticle for Leibowitz
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6.
7.
8.
9.
This will be sci fi (or related), replacing my original Category 3. NY Times Best Books of 2008. I still hope to read those but it will depend on $$ available (t ... ...
No Retreat by Dave Hann & Steve Tilzey
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Solution-Focused Groupwork by John Sharry
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Patriots: Surviving The Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles
Unforgivable Stories by Kim Newman
Conan: The Ultim ... #32 Renee
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (which I will have to buy) Dune and Canticle for Liebowitz were all recommended by my older son--I would have the Heinlein here, too, if he could have found his copy to send home with me--all of these are his. He's MUCH more into fantasy than I am (even ... ... and trying to work on it. It's not limited to the 999 group.
Checked out your SF/F list. The only one I've read is A Canticle for Leibowitz. We read it for classics book group this year. It's 3 stories from 3 different time periods in the same world put together in a single volume. Anoth ... ... started towards the beginning of the list so most of my reads are the early ones (mostly pre-90s).
Anyways... I thought A Canticle for Leibowitz was great. The Snow Queen on the other hand still makes me feel a little queasy just thinking about having to read it again. I didn't like the film of Gone with the Wind.
Yes, somehow I've managed to avoid A Canticle for Leibowitz. I think I have a copy somewhere. I'm surprised, Ian, that you haven't read A Canticle for Leibowitz. Even I with my limited exposure to SF have read and enjoyed it.
You know, I took great pride in having lived in Atlanta (actually living on land that may well have been part of Tara) for over twenty years and never having read ... But A Canticle for Leibowitz is a Classic Of The Genre! And very good, what's more. The Wanderer, on the other hand, I wouldn't bother with - 1965 must have been a slow year. ... that is still a fun read. In fact, you might consider looking at the "golden age" of sci-fi for him. More than Human, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and The Stars, My Destination all come to mind as worthwhile reads that should appeal to him. Good luck! ... post-apocalyptic goodie? Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber is one I have on my shelves to read...it's more akin to A Canticle for Liebowitz in its setting than Triffids, but it could simply be too much too soon...?
I'll always second Jo Walton's Farthing because I love the ... ... - Bret Easton Ellis
4. A Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington
5. Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland
6. A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
7. The Devil's Teeth - Susan Casey
8. American Vertigo - Bernard-Henri Levy
9. Collapse - Jared Diamond
... I'm nearly 100 pages into A Canticle for Leibowitz... 75. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. ... to other women.
Both Changer and Anansi Boys are in my top tier of fantasy books, Tad.
I was blown away by A Canticle for Liebowitz when I first read it as a teen. It was a powerful post-apocalyptic vision, and very potent to someone's whose childhood was at peak of the Cold War. ... >146: MusicMom41
Sounds good. A Canticle for Liebowitz isn't for everyone (have a Latin dictionary near by) and, if you decide that you'd rather substitute something else, by all means do so. If you go over to Amazon, look up that book, scroll down and click on "See all 233 reviews" then ... ... submitted so I hadn't seen your 144 & 145 posts. On my list there are only a couple I'm not sure about--the most "iffy" is A Canticle for Leibowitz--so I think I will get a good idea across the range of the genre. When I'm done I think I will let you and ronincats know which ones I really ... ... a military story, but really a story about a young boy whose military genius forces him to grow up fast and hard.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller: Probably the most famous of the post-Apocalyptic stories about civilization struggling along.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ... What happened to A Canticle for Leibowitz?
But leaving aside a personal favorite, I note that all of the books choices are either series or the best known book in a series. What about stand-alones? (All right, Leibowitz also has the follow-up Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, ... ... ieville
64. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
65. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
66. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller ... Dune
6. Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana READ 2009
7. McKillip, Patricia: Riddle Master Trilogy
8. Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
9. Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles READ 2009
Other possibilities:
Category 6: Mysteries
1. Cook, Glen: Sweet Silver Blues ...
... be a better fit. LT recommendations for The Chrysalids are - some more Wyndham and some very popular sci fi books like A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1984 and On the Beach. ... the last few books I've read. Time for something on the lite side. Just started Armor by John Steakley.
Have ordered A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, they both have been on my TBR list for awhile. ... the last few books I've read. Time for something on the lite side. Just started Armor by John Steakley.
Have ordered A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, they have been on my TBR list for awhile.
If I recall correctly, we read Flowers for Algernon, Animal Farm, 1984, Anthem, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and I think Lord of the Flies. That was in the late 70s-early 80s. ... !)
1. Ancient Evenings 2.5/5 - Historical Fiction (Egypt)
2. Before I Die 3.5/5 - Fiction (chick-lit)
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz 3.5/5 - Sci-Fi (Far future Earth)
4. The Children of Men 3/5 - Sci-Fi (Near future Earth)
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear 2.5/5 - Histor ... ... turf I guess. She says it works quite well.
I went to high school in a monastery. You would think we might have read A Canticle for Leibowitz, but I think the closest we got to SF (and I contend it's not all that far off) was The Odyssey. ... You might be able to get them another day.
I see young posters on boards become rankled and indignant at the latin used in A Canticle For Liebowitz as opposed to understanding that the author knows that everyone doesn't speak Latin, and those quotes are like the "Easter Eggs" that are strewn in ... ... to mind. 'Literary' authors like Margaret Atwood and Michael Chabon as well.
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Most Alternate History and Dystopian novels have little science at all. ... of "older" books that are still worth reading, and have not been recommended already throughout this thread:
Religion - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Politics - The Dispossessed
Philosophy - Star Maker
Post-Apocalypse - I Am Legend
Military Fiction - Forever War
Some ...
... inclined towards The Road. Likewise I enjoy Cormac McCarthy books. In the end, I preferred Earth Abides and A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road. I can't preecisely put my finger on why. I wasn't about to chuck the darn thing, and I wasn't about to leave it at my table ... ... read in the more modern stuff.
1984 - Orwell
At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft
Brave New World - Huxley
Canticle of Leibowitz - Miller
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Childhood's End - Clarke
Day of the Triffids - Wyndham
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Dick
Dune ... ... Wells
Moon Pool : A. Merrit
Atta : Francis Bellamy
West of Eden : Harry Harrison
Eternity Road : Jack McDevitt
A Canticle for Leibowitz : Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Left Hand of Darkness : Ursula le Guin
This Alien Shore : C. S. Friedman
Alas, Babylon : Pat Frank
Dhalgren : Sa ... ... as all twelve volumes of his "solar cycle"
John Kessel's Good News from Outer Space Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz: a favorite since high school
Patricia McKillip's Fools Run, which as far as I know is her only science fiction novel. Also her Riddlemaste ... ... Keyes
The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula Le Guin
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
A Canticle For Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jnr
Gateway - Heechee – Frederik Pohl
Man Plus – Frederik Pohl
Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
Star Maker - ... ... (1954)
Jack Vance - Big Planet (1957)
James Blish - A Case Of Conscience (1958)
Walter M. Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
Frank Herbert - Dune (1965)
Keith Roberts - Pavane (1968)
Philip K. Dick - Ubik (1969)
Arkady Strugatsky and Bori ... ... Aldous Huxley
* The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
* Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
* A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller Jr.
* Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
* Dune, Frank Herbert
* Hyperion, Dan Simmons
* Red Mars, Kin Stanley ... ... - Have Space-Suit -- Will Travel
Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint
Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon
Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon
Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X
Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
J.G. Ballard ... ... Cain
Hot Water Music, Charles Bukowski
My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond
Jazz, Toni Morrison
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller ... July), Childhood's End (#73, August), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (#74, December) are all teed up thus far. I hope A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Day of the Triffids follow next year, although if they're already recycling the previously published ... It took me 2 weeks, but I finally finished no. 36: A Canticle for Leibowitz. I had this book on my wish list for some time and I was really looking forward to reading it, but it turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. Even though it had its moments, it was not the book I expected it to be. ... Finally, I finished A Canticle for Leibowitz. It definitely had its moments, but overall it just wasn't my book. Way too much religion and Latin, both of which I'm not into.
And now I get to pick a new book from mount TBR. I love this part! What to choose, what to choose... ^^ A Canticle for Leibowitz was originally published in 'Catholic Digest in the 1950's. As someone who remembers the mass before Vatican 2 I have to say that the original audience would have been familiar with Latin. At that time writing about the Catholic Church without Latin would have been as ... ... school (Dutch, English, French and German). Some schools also have Greek and Latin. I never took Latin and now I'm reading A Canticle for Leibowitz which is loaded with Latin frases and it's sooo annoying! The author doesn't explain or imply what is said and I feel like I'm missing a lot. If I ... I'm reading A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller. I was really looking forward to reading it, it comes highly recommended here on LT, but I can't seem to get a grip on it. ... fiction and speculative fiction, Father Elijah and its series by Michael D. O'Brien and (of course) the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Any of the books in the Don Camillo series by Giovanni Guareschi, and Guareschi's memoir as well.
The Comforters by Muriel Spark. ... Found this thread, thought I might be able to add a few books:
A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. - A story of a monastery after a nuclear apocalypse, which spend their lives trying to preserve the past for the benefit of the future. Excellent story, has some good moral debates, ... ... good is that they contain recognisable people with whom most readers can identify. Whereas I didn't get on too well with Canticle for Leibowitz as there were too few reference points in the characters or places for me to feel the full chilling effect that a good post-apocalyptic novel should ... ... my “Desert Island Books,” if you will. That said, here are my five science fiction titles in alphabetical order:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger ... I'm not really all that much of a re-reader in this genre. The one that I really have read several times, though, is A Canticle for Leibowitz. Just finished: 24. A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
I was very excited to finally get around to this science-fiction classic. I enjoyed it, especially the middle section, Fiat Lux, which moved along at a clip and had the most profound passages of the book. I was ... ... lists the following as the top 15:
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
Dune messiah by Frank Herbert
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Snow crash by Neal Stephenson
The ... ... attempts to examine religion and religious ideas through the medium of SF.
Some good examples, in my opinion, are A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny.
Would appreciate some more suggestions from the posters on here. ... way into The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
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I'm enough of a freak that untranslated Latin is making me want to read A Canticle for Liebowitz even more. ... back to the Old World and is so entwined with the history of New York. A real cover-to-cover treat.
In progress: A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. ... Review
Books Read:
47. Bangkok 8 by John Burdett - seller
48. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - keeper
49. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. - seller
50. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - KEEPER
51. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, vol. 1 - ... I originally read A Canticle for Leibowitz in high school as a class assignment (also got to read the original Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes - fairly progressive for the 70's). Both are good reads (the Apes novel is much better than the first movie or more recent adaptation, though the first ... I want to put another mention in for A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.. It covered a future after a nuclear war, where survivors in a monastery struggle to preserve the knolwedge of their forefathers. There are so many things I liked about this - the criticism of nuclear ... Finished A Canticle for Leibowitz today. It's a story about a monastery that tries to preserve the records of the past after a nuclear holocaust, but it is so much more than that. Only complaint is that the book should have an appendix that details the latin phrases in the book, but otherwise, I ... ... Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images by James Wasserman, Eva Von Dassow, Dr. Ogden Goelet, and Carol Andrews
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Encountering Ecclesiastes: A Book for Our Time by James Limburg
Just in from Bol.com:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
I'm very excited, because they both came highly recommended on LT and they were both on the top of my wish list! Now just have to find the time to finish my current read and ... A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
The Forever War, Joe Hadleman
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Apart from that, room for another bookcase. I remember A Canticle for Leibowitz having a big impact on me when I read it in college about 40 years ago. I was quite enthusiastic about recommending it to friends who also read SF. I finished A Canticle For Leibowitz on the flight out. My review is below, x-posted from my reading list:
The story of humanity's rise and fall after a nuclear disaster changes the face of the world.
Like the best classic science fiction, this book is about ideas. Miller thrusts us into ... 49. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Water M. Miller Jr. - seller
The story of humanity's rise and fall after a nuclear disaster changes the face of the world.
Like the best classic science fiction, this book is about ideas. Miller thrusts us into one hell of a "what if" scenario and runs ... ... is pointing only to vol. 3, but I got the whole trilogy)
Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy (one of my guilty pleasures)
A Canticle for Lebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (I've heard lots about this title, but have never read it)
Renegades Magic by Robin Hobb
Then I went to Waldenb ... ... British mystery, 1940s, eccentric Brit stuff. Fluffy and fun until I can break through K&C.
#25 - I remember reading A Canticle for Leibowitz in high school but not much about it. (no surprise there, I graduated HS in 1971). A Canticle For Leibowitz is proving to be quite a good read, but with all my trip preparations I doubt I'll finish it today. It looks like it'll be coming on the plane with me.
I also plan to return to some Guy Gavriel Kay over the next little bit. I figure I'll start with Sailing to Sar ... #159, xicanti: Wow, I haven't thought about A Canticle for Lebowitz for decades! I loved that book. ... of his before I go. I might be better off just saving it for the plane. It's starting to look like I'll end up with A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. It's one of my 888 books, and it's short enough that I should be able to polish it off in time to start some Ka ... ... familiar ground, without assuming a great deal of background knowledge.
Timescape is a pretty good suggestion, as is A Canticle for Leibowitz (which is one of the few SF books that my generally non-SF-reading father really enjoyed).
For my fifth I'm going to suggest a good strong ... ...
Anyway here are my five
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
These aren't my favourite books but between them ... I know it I know it!
I am so excited because I knew it right from the first quote.
It's A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller jr!
I studied that book for my Apocalyptic Science Fiction course in university. ... This shows up in Lucifer's Hammer, also, as different surviving groups have markedly different characters and goals. Even A Canticle for Liebowitz supports this, as it was only a very small group of survivors of the original holocaust that tried to preserve knowledge, while the great majority ... If you like The Day of the Triffids I would recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. A classis post apocalyptic.
More contemporary science fiction I've enjoyed lately:
Metropolitan by Walter Williams.
The Wess'har Wars series by Karen Traviss.
Carnival ... ... disaster! Their children were illiterate.
Wouldn't literacy be one thing they would strive hard to maintain?
The Canticle for Leibowitz approach makes more sense to me - with literacy being revered and knowledge passed down for generations until the skills to use it have redeveloped. ... ...
The earlier sequences had some of the flavor of Gene Wolfe's The Devil in a Forest, and also reminded me a bit of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
The overall story, with the present and past portions, called to mind Connie Willis's Fire Watch and Doomsday Book.
... of "Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy." It also has links to other such sites. I haven't read a single one except for Canticle for Liebowitz which I read so many years ago I can't remember it (but want to reread it for that very reason). Some of the titles on the list look pretty ... ... an android lover. I'm not as quite as clever as you thought. Sorry :-)
Yes, Terry Bisson wrote the sequel to The Canticle for Liebowitz. It was titled Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
Science fiction writer. Penury. The two pretty much go hand-in-hand. Except for ... My favorite in eighth grade was Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. ... after reading The Terror. But I'm not sure I have enough steam to tackle anymore of the Hyperion series. I've also got A Canticle for Leibowitz and and The Singularity is Near. 1. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
An intriguing sci-fi novel, different from any of the other post-apocalyptic stuff I've read before. Understanding everything is helped by a background in Catholicism, but it's not necessary for following the story or enjoying the book. A classic ... ... back to for new reads in '08!
Fiction:
BEST: The Scarlet Letter An oldie but goodie that I really ate up.
WORST: A Canticle for Liebowitz Everything that I hate about sci-fi in one book.
Non Fiction:
BEST: Constantine's Sword: The church and the jews, a history Wonderful prose ... ... by Frank Herbert
Voyage to Venus by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover
Foreigner by C.J. C ... ... liberal mind and its compulsion to make everything and everyone equal. The levelling impulse. The great oversimplifiers.
Canticle for Leibowitz ... recommend the two Mary Doria Russell books The Sparrow and Children of God; they're devastating but profound. A Canticle for Leibowitz is next on my list, and this discussion is giving me lots more ideas. Thanks much. ... lassics)
Clifford Simak's City, Way Station
Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity, Needle
Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz
Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
Bernard Wolfe's Limbo
... something easier:
No. 27 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz
TBR = 55 ... and haunting ambience of the story seems more 'grown up'
Another one that isn't YA, but which is really great is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr..
Of recent YA post apocalyptic novels, I'll second Green Angel by Alice Hoffman it is more poetic than most ... ... 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Children of Dune by Fr ... ... Shadow
The Black Swan
Plus:
Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings
Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff
The Swords Trilogy by Michael Moorcock
The Compass Rose by Ursu ... ... by Frank Herbert (227)
The demolished man by Alfred Bester (95)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (187)
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (123)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (146)
The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (97)
The dispossessed ... A well-known post-apocalyptic novel that gets into high school reading lists is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. ... a post-apocalyptic America wasn't new to me like it might have been to other readers. I was also reminded a bit of Miller's A Canticle for Lebowitz and I had read The Pesthouse prior to the McCarthy.
Anyone read the latest dystopia?..The Last American King, I think it's called (or ... ... Abides by George R Stewart
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Where late the sweet birds sang by Kate Wilhelm
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, Jr
The Book of Dave by Will Self
Next month: Christian fiction! I actually like lathe of heaven over left hand of darkness. It would be really interesting to contrast lathe with a canticle for leibowitz as examples of religion as an influence on science fiction. From left field, it might be worthwhile to evaluate Grass by Tepper, although I'd be ... ... by Philip K. Dick
Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
Lights out in the Reptile House by Jim Shepard
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
White Noise by Don Delillo I'll second (or whatever) the recommendations of A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Space Merchants.
Also, something by Philip K. Dick. The easiest ones to use for your purposes would be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle.
... ... read whatever! Someone just TELL me what to read! :)
Going back to post #54 - I'm with Morphy. I didn't care for A Canticle for Leibowitz at all. I read it, but it was difficult. ... the movie, so its all new to me)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Kallocain by Karin Boye
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
It Can't Happen Here: A Novel by Sinclai ... You're off to a good start with that curriculum. A Canticle for Leibowitz raises many questions about religious belief and the evolution of knowledge, but it's gripping reading anyway :). ... other one of his I know is Way Station, which is also quite good.
I would greatly enjoy hearing other's thoughts on A Canticle for Leibowitz, one of my favorites from a zillion years ago, but I'd also enjoy reading somethig new. Flexible people are frustrating sometimes, huh? ... master in the field and these are two of his better books.
4. The Difference Engine by William Gibson
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Thinking about it but not actually checking, I think these are actually all award winning novels. You could do worse than to try to read your ... 53. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 338 pages
54. Anthem by Ayn Rand, 105 pages I'm pretty sure the first SF I read was Podkayne of Mars. Other very early ones were Slan and A Canticle for Leibowitz. I was an altar boy and didn't have any trouble with the Latin. For those who enjoyed A Canticle for Leibowitz, I highly recommend This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow. Simultaneously hilarious and gut-wrenching, it's one of the finest accounts of apocalypse I've ever read. I'll second Canticle for Liebowitz, We (I'd read an older translation in a college course on Utopian/Dystopian literature in the early-'70s and I understand the newer translation is truer to the original and I want to read it), 1984 (I'd read my parents' pulp cover paperback when I was in my ... ... Green Mars, Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. A great combination of social science and natural science.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. Post-apocalyptic monasticism. What could be better?
If I could include books more on the fantasy side of the ... ... TV-movie version of Lathe of Heaven. It had that kid from the film Witness, and a girl from The Cosby Show. It was o.k.
A Canticle for Leibowitz, mentioned in the first post, is a good dystopian/ apocalyptic future novel. I also enjoyed The Big Time, though I'm not sure if it qualifies. ... fantasy. (After Tolkien and Jordan obviously)
Alternatively, and I don't know if you read the genre, I just finished A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller. Easily the best post-apocolyptic book I have read to date. Seems I am the lone survivor on this page. Much like a post-apocalyptic plot...hmmmm
Canticle for Leibowitz:
Damn.
I think this has to be one of the best novels I have read in the last year. In fact it has to be one of the best books I have read ever.
I'm a content over form reader, ... Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan
The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
The Year in Music I'm starting again for 2008. I don't want to start a new thread all for myself, so I'll edit this one and reuse it. I enjoyed having the record last year of my year in books.
My goal again this year - 100 substantial books. I am not recording ephemeral chick lit that I forget before I put the ... ... Book of the New Sun.* Gene Wolfe
The Book of Knights. Yves Meynard
Camp Concentration. Thomas Disch
A Canticle for Leibowitz.* Walter M. Miller
The Child Garden. Geoff Ryman
Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell
The Conquest of the Space Sea. Robert Moore Will ... The Rachel scene near the end of A Canticle for Leibowitz is a powerful suggestion of hope in the direst of circumstances. The two protagonists hauling the sledge in The Left Hand of Darkness, working together despite the inner conflicts within each, is marvelous. The appearance of the ... ... people who have survived some sort of world-wide cataclysm.
It reminds me a bit of the Fisher King legend.
A bit of A Canticle for Liebowitz.
And I think it prompts readers with a theological bent to think about man's essential relationship with God.
Any takers? The follow-up to A Canticle for Leibowitz is called Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. I haven't read it myself so can't vouch for its quality. I also highly enjoyed A Canticle for Liebowitz which i read many years ago as standing head and shoulders above most of the 'SF' books i could get my hands on at the time (though i disagree that it's "much better" than 1984; of course that is my personal opinion/taste, but really the two books ... >62 Hmm, been many years since I read it, but A Canticle for Leibowitz? I have to join the crowd on A Canticle for Liebowitz - and I read it so long ago I don't even own a copy, I checked it out of the library. But the story and the ideas inherent to the story have stayed with me. Another book that comes close to this category but perhaps not quite and is still a ... ...
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ou ... I loved A Canticle for Leibowitz - much better than 1984 or Brave New World. That might have to do with the circumstances they were read under. Having a broader frame of reference within a genre tends to add to the pleasure of reading a great work within it, in my experience.
Nick Sagan ... ... of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz.
The recent The Pesthouse by Jim Crace and The Road by Cormac McCarthy were pretty good also - although the things they have to say ... ... of this type of Science Fiction and to be honest I'm looking for titles to read myself. My personal favorites are 1984, A Canticle for Leibowitz and Brave New World ... Martian Chronicles, Ursula Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. These last eight mentioned, I thought I still had, but maybe I haven't gotten to them in my cataloging effort. ... with him to figure out what's going on, rather than having everything spelled out for me. Also LeGuin, Guy Kay
book" A Canticle for Leibowitz is a very old favorite. I really enjoyed Dan Simmons' Hyperion books. Amen to previous mentions of LHoD and Bester. For me, though, ... ... Christian Anderson story, this book is a fully realized world of it's own. It is very compelling and well-told.
14. A Canticle for Liebowitz by William M. Miller, Jr.
A science fiction classic. This book was kind of depressing, watching people make the same mistakes over a long ... #110
It was such a great class. Not only did we read PoA, but also The Hobbit, The Stars My Destination, A Canticle for Lebowitz, and other really great stories in the fantastic literature canon.
Every college should have a genre specific class like that :D. A Canticle for Leibowitz was very good, and I also enjoyed Fitzpatrick's War, although I felt it was slow and the ending was rather weak. I've been meaning to pick up Alas, Babylon, Lucifer's Hammer and I am Legend.
Also, Dies the Fire was a good read, I need to check out the sequels. ... ... (1957)
"Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank (1959), the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" and later its sequel "Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman", both by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959).
"Dark Universe" by Daniel F. Galouye ... Some Catholic sci-fi:
The winner for me is easily Canticle for Leibowitz. Stumbling upon that book was a true joy. It begins as science fiction and turns out to be so much more. Miller was a Catholic, at least for a while. It is one of the very few books I have read several times.
An ... ... WN
"Le Dieu venu du Centaure" "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" de Philip K. DICK
"Un cantique pour Leibowitz" "A Canticle for Leibowitz" de Walter M. MILLER
"Station des profondeurs" "Stations of the Tide" de Michael SAWNWICK
"Riddley Walker" de Russell HOBAN
"Forteres ... ... looking forward to rereading The Giver.
I have a couple more that are next in my to be read stack that are not YA - A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to talk about Kevin. A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to Talk about Kevin are the two books I'm currently reading. An Abundance of Katherines will be the next book. 1. Canticle for Leibowitz
2. The Third Policeman
3. A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
4. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
5. Adventures in unhistory by Avram Davidson
The first three books are supposed to be must-read classics. I hadn't even heard of them before I ... I posted on another LT board about William Gaddis' book JR. Somehow the touchstone for the book title isn't coming up with this particular book. Although the book's cover has it spelled "JR" without periods or spaces, I've also tried "J. R.," "J R," "J.R.," and so forth, all to no avail. Is ... I just started A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. ... sure how to make that work.
I thought about just tagging each book "2007" as I add it here.
Also, I had to read Canticle for Leibowitz a few years ago. I expected to hate it but ended up really enjoying it. It was definitely different though! ... to them.
I don't really abhor sci-fi or fantasy -- I even liked a few that I read in school, such as Alas, Babylon and A Canticle for Leibowitz, but I was never willing to expend my reading time learning the tropes which I think is the secret to loving those genres.
Deniro in Message 19 - I wholeheartedly agree with A Canticle for Leibowitz -- it's on my all-time best list of books.
One book I'd recommend to anyone dealing with head/heart issues and the struggle against self is Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz. It's a memoir, of sorts, but one that ... I also was gripped by Canticle for Leibowitz (#19 Lucien) but it was pretty dispiriting to see how much effort they put into deciphering bus tickets (perhaps I'm remembering that wrong but it's on the right lines). I hope we are doing a little better with the Dead Sea Scrolls and all these new 'go ... ... could you be thinking of the Dies the Fire series? I never read it, but it has caught my eye in the past.
Canticle for Leibowitz is another good post-apocolyptic tale, where suvivors of a nuclear holocaust have only a few scraps of written works from the past (and let's just ... ... Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Fiction: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Science Fiction: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Spirituality: The Holy Longing by Ronald Rolheiser
Prayer / Spiritual Practice: The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa ... Canticle for Leibowitz is my recommendation because it confronts the reader with a fundamental fact of reality, namely the flawed nature of man. And it does so in novel form, indirectly, one might even say in a sneaky way, rather than in a didactic way.
Everyone has a philosophy of life, ... Just to nudge this back toward the topic ... MrKris, Canticle for Leibowitz is a true "must read" for scifi fans ... and really for anyone because of its topic ... and regarding Philip K. Dick, I also agree that he is a bit over-represented on the second list ... I would have left it at Do ... Actually looking at the list now, I see most of those books are included.
Interesting to see A Canticle for Leibowitz on the list. I've never read it, but it's refered to in James Michener's Space ... Belden series by Julie Campbell
12-17
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The People-No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson
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Gormenghast by Mervin Peake
L ... How about Walter M. Miller Jr., who wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz? I know he did some short stories, too, but I don't think he published another novel ... ... of progress before returning to his old ways of regress and de-evolution.
For a sci-fi treatment of these ideas, see Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. One of my favorite books.
What about Planet of the Apes?
... and actually read it. The Harlot by the Side of the Road-all those things that never get talked about in Sunday School. Canticle for Leibowitz-just shows that history will repeat itself.
Also read some of the Greek tradegies and comedies are great for showing the man at his best and worst. ... 2 books I find are too often overlooked in this genre - A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller and War with the Newts by the astonishing Karel Capek. (EDIT! Not sure how I missed Canticle being in the first post in the thread!)
And, of course, Player Piano.
Kudos to Aquila for We ...
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