Nunc dimittis
On the advice of my friend Wes, I am reading A Canticle for Leibowitz. Wow. It is enjoyable and subtle and feel that in many ways it is the novel I would write if I had the skill. While the Novel is set in the future it is in may ways not about what will happen but an explaination of the past. While there is much I would have done differently (like a doubt the Catholic Church would still be using Latin in this Miller's senario) but there is so much that is done so well in this book.
It is drugging up memories for me and the Catholic ecohos have been reminding me of things I used to know and other things it is shocking that I never knew about my Catholic youth. Actually, I might to another informative post about Catholism soon, I have been think a good bit about dulia, latria, and hyperdulia since reading this book, but a topic to deep for this post anyway.
More importantly this book is as Wes said, a dynamic look at how humans think and act in a Christian world. This is something athiest writers often try to depict but always come short because they never understood religion in the first place. Miller can see that religion is more than brain washing and that true believers can think for themselves. Yet he does not whitewash the way humans will use the holy for personal power in their very reall moral weakness (which he spreads around by the way, most charactors are morally weak which is quiet realistic).
Also in its originality it is a breath of fresh air, I am so tired of Dragonlance and Wheel of Time. And to think this book is 40 years old.
But I should be careful I am only halfway through, I liked the Amber Spyglass when I was halfway through too. But it says sometime for this book that I am half way through it tonight and I bought it Friday evening.
And I don't think Miller is a Phil Pulman or anything.
It is drugging up memories for me and the Catholic ecohos have been reminding me of things I used to know and other things it is shocking that I never knew about my Catholic youth. Actually, I might to another informative post about Catholism soon, I have been think a good bit about dulia, latria, and hyperdulia since reading this book, but a topic to deep for this post anyway.
More importantly this book is as Wes said, a dynamic look at how humans think and act in a Christian world. This is something athiest writers often try to depict but always come short because they never understood religion in the first place. Miller can see that religion is more than brain washing and that true believers can think for themselves. Yet he does not whitewash the way humans will use the holy for personal power in their very reall moral weakness (which he spreads around by the way, most charactors are morally weak which is quiet realistic).
Also in its originality it is a breath of fresh air, I am so tired of Dragonlance and Wheel of Time. And to think this book is 40 years old.
But I should be careful I am only halfway through, I liked the Amber Spyglass when I was halfway through too. But it says sometime for this book that I am half way through it tonight and I bought it Friday evening.
And I don't think Miller is a Phil Pulman or anything.