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This book isn't very popular, and when someone has read it they usually just have "meh" to say about it.

Has anyone else read this post-apocalyptic novel? I'm a little over half way done and I'm curious if /lit/ is a fan of it.

>> No.3695790

>>3695786

I loved i when I was 15. I might read it again.

>> No.3695788

>>3695786

I read 10 pages of it and thought it was pretty decent and has a lot of potential.

I stopped reading it because it's just fiction in the end and thus misses the point.

>> No.3695791

>>3695788
>it's just fiction in the end and thus misses the point
elaborate

>> No.3695801

Also, would you consider this "religious literature" or "christian literature". I see a lot of christian sites with links to the book, and noting it under the aforementioned labels.
I'm not religious, and I don't really see this book as a religious novel, although it is about a catholic order.

It never really advocates Catholicism, it just kind of revolves around the characters, who just happen to belong to a catholic order.
Maybe I just need to finish it, I don't know.

>> No.3695810

>>3695791

It's just a story that at best makes hidden or metaphorical assertions. It doesn't question itself, it can't question itself.

At most it can be entertainment.

>> No.3695809

Yeah it's great. It's fucking great.

>>3695801
It's about Catholics, and it's by a Catholic, and it's written from a religious point of view. I don't think that makes it a religious book, in the sense that it's not written for the sole purpose of displaying its religion.

>> No.3695815

>>3695809
That's what I thought.
And as far as I've read, there isn't even anything paranormal, let alone holy, save for Benjamin the wanderer.

>> No.3695821

>>3695810
While it can't question itself, because it is fiction, it can question reality and our real world.
It doesn't require a nonfiction book to get people thinking, just look at what Uncle Tom's Cabin did.
It may have been a realistic setting, but it was still a fiction novel.

>> No.3695833

>>3695810
how does that not apply to satyre in general?

>> No.3695889

>>3695788
>>3695810
this is the stupidest thing i've ever read. you've gotta be fucking around.

Also, this book is great. Anything similar? I'm not looking for necessarily post apocalyptic shit. Just good science fiction that deals primarily with more philosophical and far reaching themes outside of typical stuff like technology, mans place in universe, etc.

>> No.3695893

>>3695889
The Giver isn't really sci-fi, but it's GREAT at making you look at society and humanity as a whole. Gives you an alternate world to compare ours to.
I might just be remembering from my younger mind though, I haven't read it since I was in middle school. Still, even then, I thought it was fantastic.

>> No.3695922

I liked it. I really liked it. I even recommended it to my mom who also liked it.

>> No.3695932

finished it a few weeks ago. thought the ending was meh. overall it was pretty good. one thing i didn't like about it was that the latin in the book wasn't translated. I know it probably didn't add much to the story but ever put it in? guess it was his "style" or something.

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3695963

One of my favorite books.

>> No.3696037

I read it for a science fiction course I took a few years ago in uni. I honestly can't remember too much from it now but I remember it being the best book I had to read for that course. That and Neuromancer.

>> No.3696696

>>3695932
>the city of America

>>3695786
I really liked it.

>> No.3698777

>>3695801
Ive read the book several times, and Ive always found it to be poking fun at dogma by showing the holes humanity create within it.

>> No.3698804

It's actually some of the best fantasy/sci fi things I've ever read.

Hell, I don't even know how to classify it. But it's very good still.

I've seen nothing but praise whenever it got mentioned on here OP, but it's been months since I've seen it posted.

>> No.3698823

>>3698777
>Ive always found it to be poking fun at dogma by showing the holes humanity create within it.

or the holes dogma has poked into humanity

>> No.3698897

>>3695963
What a great cover! I never read this book before so I will sage my post.