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I tried reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz” recently. Didn't love it. Not alot really happened in it. It felt like a response/commentary to the sort of apocal
by andrewstuart 4y ago
I tried reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz” recently.
Didn't love it. Not alot really happened in it.
It felt like a response/commentary to the sort of apocalypse that was envisaged in the 1980's, like nuclear war. I feel like there's a much more sophisticated post apocalyptic vision of the future now.
As an alternative, I loved "The Road" - now there's a really great post apocalyptic scifi.
- LanceH 4y agoThe book is about faith, the apocalypse is what is testing it.
- the_af 4y agoI really didn't like The Road. Felt like bleakness for bleakness' sake, a kind of "pessimism porn". Maybe I just didn't understand it.
- tablespoon 4y ago> I really didn't like The Road. Felt like bleakness for bleakness' sake, a kind of "pessimism porn". Maybe I just didn't understand it. I the book Capitalist Realism recently, and it had an interesting section that observed modern society tends to confuse bleakness and depravity with "being realistic."