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I'm reading this on my lunch breaks:

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[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 7 points 18 hours ago

Post-apocalyptic tale of tech-priests, kind of. It starts slow, and then you get used to it.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It only starts slow if you don't appreciate the unique humour of a world that has forgotten itself completely misinterpreting archeological artifacts in hilarious ways. This is one of my favourite books ever, in large part because of the description of Brother Francis' reactions and reasoning upon reading the words "fallout shelter", and other such examples of the beautifully dry and matter-of-fact humour present throughout the book.

[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, I'm also enjoying that. I've been working my way through Catch 22 as well, and the humor has a bit of the same dryness, but I wonder if this book has a little more humanity to it.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I think that you'll find that it does, by the end. Its a shockingly hopeful and beautiful book, for a story whose primary lesson is "humanity never learns from its mistakes, people die, and the uncaring world moves on"

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