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Summary: As a fallen Catholic, I found it inspriing.
Review: I was a raised a Catholic. When they turned the altar around and removed some of the mystery, placed the doxology into the vernacular and made hymns into sappy folk songs I left. Mr. Miller indicated the majesty, dignity and humanity that is the essence of this religion through his narration of mankind's efforts to better itself. His book has not returned me to the church, but he has made defending it a reflexive action. This is not science fiction but an application of high principle to a frowsty, grizzling species that would try to be better than it is. This book should be read by anyone who wants to consider the "greater picture."
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Summary: Grim reminder for all Nuclear Mad countries
Review: I bought this book off a pavement shop. It was tattered. Still I acquired it as I have read praises about this work. I was not disappointed. Searing piece of fiction.Every nation's leaders should read this novel and bury nuclear madness forever.
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Summary: This is an excellent portrayal of the post-apocalyptic Churc
Review: A grim, yet uplifting tale of the canonization process of the Beatus Leibowitz. Overall, a great book.
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Summary: A good book, very different for science fiction.
Review: When science fiction deals with the Catholic church it is generally hostile this book is a little different. I sometimes wonder if that is because it is made of novellas that appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction when Boucher was editor. I think this book shows good & bad things about the Church so non-Catholics will enjoy it too. Ultimately, the Catholic feel is there & so it made me feel I could enjoy sf without being apologetic about who I am. It'll read more like an alternate future to modern readers & it is a little bleaker then I usually like. As for Miller himself, I read that he became disillusioned with the religion he so eloquently described, that along with the depressiveness the book hints at might explain his end.
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Summary: even one of todays cursed teens can enjoy this book
Review: I just finished it about an hour ago for the first time. I wish I would have finished the day I started reading it. It has left me doubting a great and many things, but I don't doubt that it will always remain the most thought provoking book I've ever read. But now I must go and think some more. Thanks to all the amazon.com reviewers who made me want to read this. I love you all.
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Summary: Delicacy in a sea of brutality
Review: I came to ACFL at college and have re-read it many times. The characterisation by Miller of a number of figures facing different but universal personal and religious problems strikes a chord in many friends who have also read this book. Miller's attention to detail is superb, even down to the careful amendments to the Litany of the Saints to reflect a post-holocaust list of terrors from which the sinner requests salvation. A book of hope about a subject of fear, I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Slight Disappoinment
Review: I recently read this book for my english class. After hearing all my friends, who had already completed the course, rave about how good this novel was, I was disappointed in the novel. I believe it is well written, but that it is not for everyone. It's shocking reality appealed to me, but I found the religion content to be a bit much. I believe, I could recommend this novel for the quality of the writing, but I myself will never pick it up again.
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Summary: Miller is not afraid to expose our medieval nature.
Review: Miller is as meticulous in character development as the illuminator of Leibowitz's work. By the time Miller is done the reader will have become intimately acquainted with these people. Yet with equal tenacity Miller is bold enough to let death visit upon his characters. In the end the reader is left mourning the loss of people met and rejoicing at the cycle of life renewed. Or perhaps dreading the renewed doom that Miller has woven us into again.
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Summary: A grim warning to humanity.
Review: 'Wow.... what an extremely pessimistic ending!' Those, unfortunately, were the exact words I muttered to my self after reading Walter M. Miller's 'A Canticle for Leibowitz.' But, after a few days of thought, I realized that feelings of pessimism must have been exactly what the author intended readers to experience. This book provides a strong WARNING to the people of our world of what may happen to it, if we choose to ignore the mistakes of our predecessors. History does in fact repeat its self, as the author of this book stresses. To provide a warning to humanity is exactly what science fiction is all about. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you are looking for something provocative and out of the ordinary, I suggest that you pick this book up....but be prepared. This book may leave you stunned!
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Summary: Addendum: Did you know Miller committed suicide?
Review: The third and final chapter, "Fiat Voluntua", has a long-winded polemic against suicide woven into the narration. After I finished the book, I became interested in what kind of person Miller was. When I read that he killed himself, I broke down and cried. I believe that whether or not a person kills himself is between him and his God, and is none of society's business. But that someone who could argue with such passion and conviction against suicide and yet would later fall to such depths of misery and despair that he would kill himself is one of the saddest and most awful things I think I've ever heard of...
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