Month 29 of 260 (11.15 percent)
Size of list: 85,470 pages (9.8 percent above start)
Pages read: 15,050 (17.61 percent)
H-list: 4,352/23,114 (18.83 percent)
N-list: 5,953/36,694 (16.22 percent)
O-list: 4,745/25,662 (16.33 percent)
Finished: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Reading: The Three-Body Problem, The Fires of Heaven
This month's read was the 1961 Hugo winner A Canticle for Leibowitz. I came in expecting it to have not aged well, but I enjoyed almost all of it. It's a postapocalyptic tale, and like Foundation shifts point-of-view characters as it advances through time. The characters are part of the Catholic Church, which a thousand years after the apocalypse is the institution holding on to what knowledge can be saved, and restoring it. Even as civilization rebuilds and prepares to destroy itself again, the Church preserves.
I ended this book feeling that it made a good case for the Church as an enduring institution -- not religion, not faith, but the Church itself, its structure of authority and support of monasteries, the small institutions that carry out the larger institution's work. It's 2,000 years old now -- why wouldn't it be the one thing to live through the fires of nuclear annihilation?
Reading: The Three-Body Problem, The Fires of Heaven
This month's read was the 1961 Hugo winner A Canticle for Leibowitz. I came in expecting it to have not aged well, but I enjoyed almost all of it. It's a postapocalyptic tale, and like Foundation shifts point-of-view characters as it advances through time. The characters are part of the Catholic Church, which a thousand years after the apocalypse is the institution holding on to what knowledge can be saved, and restoring it. Even as civilization rebuilds and prepares to destroy itself again, the Church preserves.
I ended this book feeling that it made a good case for the Church as an enduring institution -- not religion, not faith, but the Church itself, its structure of authority and support of monasteries, the small institutions that carry out the larger institution's work. It's 2,000 years old now -- why wouldn't it be the one thing to live through the fires of nuclear annihilation?
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