Reviews

• This might be an appropriate warning for the world we are seeing around us today

  This is a book that was first published quite a while back. I read it in high school. And, remembering that it was a good sci fi read, I ordered it so I could read it again. Glad that I did. With the recent developments in international politics in the direction of bigger and better weapons, maybe everyone needs to read this book. What happens if the nukes rain down on the world? In this story, humans aren't totally burned off the face of the planet, but they suffer the retributions of their nuclear folly. After that kind of experience, do you think humans will change and become peaceful and good-hearted towards each other? Will the learning that resulted in that holocaust be forever cast aside? or re-embraced? And what could the result be in either case? The author created a story that is haunting in its apparent possibility. I recommend this book to anyone who likes Sci Fi and also for those who are a bit worried about recent political trends in the world.

• ラテン語を勉強したくなります

  本の表紙には５０万部を販売と書いてあるが、そんなに売れたのだろうか？この本にはラテン語の文章が多数出てくるため、ラテン語を勉強しようという気にさせてくれた本です。聖なるLeibowitz が死んでから６００年後の世界で、Leibowitzを信仰する僧侶達の世界に、信仰の根幹を揺るがす新しい文書が発見されるという物語です。

• This book is a must read for anyone who likes science fiction, but really anyone at all. If you want to know about the propensity of history to repeat itself, this book makes it very clear. I purchased this copy because I'd re-read or lent out my previous copies, and needed a new one. I will never allow myself to go for very long without a copy of this book in my possession.

• Miller successfully takes on the challenge of captivating the reader not only once, but thrice. He connects the past of the future and the future of the past in a brilliant way

• Me gusta el tamaño que tiene esta edición del libro porque es perfecto para llevar a todas partes ya que no ocupada nada de espacio. Más aún, creo que hasta puede caber en tu bolsillo de pantalón sin molestar demasiado. En cuanto al libro, aún no lo termino, sin embargo, me está gustando bastante. El personaje principal es adorable y la historia muy interesante. Lo recomiendo ampliamente!

• This book should be required reading. A true classic - it combines unforgetable heros with an incredible story. I believe it is one of the best books I've ever read.

• I really enjoyed this. Perhaps younger readers will not feel this book the way the older "cold war" generation do. The spectre of nuclear annihilation was strong at the time this was written, and the story, set in the far future, revolves around the idea that M.A.D. had indeed taken place in what was for the narrators a distant past. The story traces the slow recuperation of humankind beginning in a post-war dark age, proceeding to a renaissance based upon fragments of, to the persons living at that time, very ancient knowledge. For a very long time monks are the guardians of this knowledge - even though few of them have any idea just what exactly it is they are preserving. In the end....well, read it and find out for yourself.

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