[andrewstuart]

I tried reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz” recently.

Didn't love it. Not alot really happened in it.

It felt like a response/commentary to the sort of apocalypse that was envisaged in the 1980's, like nuclear war. I feel like there's a much more sophisticated post apocalyptic vision of the future now.

As an alternative, I loved "The Road" - now there's a really great post apocalyptic scifi.

[LanceH]

The book is about faith, the apocalypse is what is testing it.

[the_af]

I really didn't like The Road. Felt like bleakness for bleakness' sake, a kind of "pessimism porn". Maybe I just didn't understand it.

[tablespoon]

> I really didn't like The Road. Felt like bleakness for bleakness' sake, a kind of "pessimism porn". Maybe I just didn't understand it.

I the book Capitalist Realism recently, and it had an interesting section that observed modern society tends to confuse bleakness and depravity with "being realistic."