A Canticle For Leibowitz
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2025
- A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it.
The novel is a fix-up of three short stories Miller published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction that were inspired by the author's participation in the bombing of the monastery at the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II. The book is considered one of the classics of science fiction and has never been out of print. It won the 1961 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and its themes of religion, recurrence, and church versus state have generated a significant body of scholarly research. A sequel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, was published posthumously in 1997.
This is one of my favorite books of all time. My copy was already old when I bought it used. It's since fallen apart so I really appreciate this upload.
I am glad you enjoyed it. Hope you pass it along to your friends and subscribe in case I post some more gems lol.
Thank you!
NPR in the day.
I heard this many years ago and found the book at Powells later. Incredible story, and a world class adaptation.
Right? This reading is A+++
I don't know why I keep coming back to this book over and over. There's just something about it.
It is pretty much my most viewed upload...there must be something to it I don't really understand either...but I hope it does something positive for you.
@@PenguinOldTimeRadio It is a *brilliant* narration,too, that likely helps. :) Thanks for the upload!
It's very nice that you are using many voices!
Those who are hard of hearing, you might find that some of the whispery, elderly voices are challenging.
This is one of my old favorite books. If you know nothing of monastic life or medieval religion, this will be something like an alien world, but you will come away knowing more about Western culture than you'd expect.
I really enjoyed listening to this recording. Thank you for uploading!
you are welcome!
Such a great interpretation for such a great story. Amazing acting, you could imagine to be watching a movie with the great actors that contributed their voices. This is a story that becomes sadly relevant once more, since history does rhyme cyclically.
Curiously, this is the ffirst time I know about this book, but I included independently a few similar ideas in my recently published comicbook.
I am glad you enjoyed it! I am looking for more new stuff as well.....hope you subscribe and like it!
@@PenguinOldTimeRadio I did subscribe after listening to this and I'm looking forward next videos!
Right? I love the little interrogation they do in the desert... "There was... this lizard..." "LIZARD?", and the grumpy prior just being so *done* with the initiate... Hahaha!
Thanks for posting this! I just started reading the book for the first time. I plan to stay ahead of this audio version and revisit sections as I go to really cement it in my mind. The sounds and voices really bring it to life.
I am glad you like it! Just trying to share my love of the oldies and goodies...reminders of my youth! I keep looking for more to upload...hope you subscribe and comment and pass it on...
Thanks Again!
This is a very powerfull book best ending out of any book
The voice of the monk at the beginning sounds like pops from the regular show! lol
Thank you. I am struggling with what will become of our world now that ignorance & greed will come to power over every known virtue. I’m trying to stay with the living. Late night is the worst time. Great stories help.
I wonder what will happen in the future as well...Please continue to stay with the living....nights are dark...lonely...but the sun will come up tomorrow...bet your bottom dollar on tomorrow. Somewhere there is someone...and they need you. Do not let them down as others have let you down. That is the path to the end.
Please stay safe and stay with us.
Maybe try to get a grip on reality and stop believing in propaganda.
Don't worry, you'll soon be catching lizards and have unclean thoughts in the desert like all of us!
"Every known virtue" 😂
Thanks for the upload!
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Iv never experienced an audio book like this.....im in amazement......just awsome
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There was a time when National Public Radio broadcast a lot of dramatizations and plays. Those days are long over.
@@dlxmarks I remenber...loved CBS Radio Mystery Theater every night before bed!
The quality of the production is very similar (I’d say equal) to NPR’s Star Wars audio dramatizations (all three of the original movies were dramatized for radio) from the 80s… if you at all enjoyed the movies, and the qualities of this audio production appeal to you, you’ll probably really dig them… definitely recommend that you give them a listen!
@@dlxmarksI remember those from when I was a kid. I must’ve caught the tale end of that era, since I was in kid in the mid 2000s.
Thanks ❤
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There is more Truth in this fiction than in our books of history.
A sad but true commentary on the times....thank you for listening......hope you subscribe and pass it on...
An excellent radioplay of an excellent book.
Even with all our nuclear weapons, we have nowhere near the power of a single vulcanic explosion or meteor strike. When havent the power to threaten Earth. Not even close. Not yet.
Whats more, humanity has repeated survived greater disasters than we could yield, even with every weapon we have ever had time three, or so. So a nuclear holocaust would destroy our global civilization, but not humanity.
The scary thing, tho, is the survivors will know we survived and nuclear war will remain on the table for the next round.
How many rounds of nuclear apocolypse would be required for a knock-out blow?
Earth will abide, of course. And i guess the extinction of humanity is no big deal compared to all the extinctions life has endured. But how long will life have to escape ita Earthly confines? And is there time enough after us for another opportunity to escape?
I'm listening to this...listened to it... for 2 days following the election of doom (lol?)
Anyways...thank you for the distraction, and the distillation of my thoughts. I've unplugged from media (sans this specific sort) and am being in the present moment.. "For it is the doom of men... that they forget.."..
Good luck everyone in the purge.... I'll record it all from under my rock in nowhere Australia....
Signed, The Texan Abbott of Americus, Australasia....
**starts saving printed matter, soup cans, and gold teeth ?**
Glad to help you through the dark times lol.....hope you liked and subscribed! I will be posting more as time goes by
Muppet. You have it backward. His win will bring peace. You're oblivious to reality.
@@PenguinOldTimeRadio Dark times are ending. Maybe not for baby murdering nuts, but for normal and sane humans, dark times are definitely ending.
@@rmcq1999 I am not sure what you mean...