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Originally Posted by bfisher
One thing I did find very disconcerting about this book is that it really seems to be two separate works. About the first third of the novel, up to the death of Brother Francis, is imaginative and lively. After that point, it becomes a polemic about the inevitable ruin brought by secularism, and this theme is laid down heavily:
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It was written and first published in stages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
I find it interesting that two people have commented that they enjoyed the first third of the book more. It was just the opposite for me. I know that it is bloody-minded, but I was pleased when that simpleton Brother Francis caught a crossbow quarrel through the head. It did surprise me that the story immediately jumped centuries further into the future.