![]() ![]() The easy if snarky answer-that Father Spinale is a philistine-made some sense to me. It frustrated me it annoyed me it seemed to have been the longest read I have encountered in quite a long time.” “Like Father Spinale, I disliked this novel and don’t understand why it has endured. “Unlike Father Spinale, I do like science fiction,” wrote Gerald Moss. But some of our fellow readers, many of whom had also read it years ago, also had mixed reactions to the book. I have considered Canticle a brilliant and thought-provoking story ever since I first read it as a freshman in high school. While he found it “prescient” and “clever and funny in spots,” he needed convincing that the book “is, in fact, a great novel.” So perhaps a fruitful way to initiate discussion on this novel is for me to admit that I do not really like it,” he wrote in his interpretive essay for A Canticle for Leibowitz. “I am sorry, but I do not like science fiction. ![]() Our discussion of Walter Miller Jr.’s classic tale got off to an entertaining start with a surprising confession from Father Spinale. Our Facebook page continues to be the gathering place where our more than 7,000 Catholic Book Club members discuss each book. ![]() ![]() Our Catholic Book Club moderator, Kevin Spinale, S.J., crafted essays for both books, including questions for contemplation and discussion. ![]()
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