What was your time frame like from completing the book to penning the review? I have found that If I write the review immediately after finishing the last page, it is a bit different from what I think of the book a few days, or a week later.

For me, A Canticle for Liebowitz was one that I wrote the review "immediately". Then, after I published the review here, I found the book's "lessons" and themes growing on me - I still didn't like the constant bombardment of religious iconography and focus of the story, but subtracting that away, and it was still a journey through humanity.

I wonder if that is what this book was attempting to be - a journey through humanity, though, by the sounds of things, that journey may have been a knife through the literal flesh of humanities, which goes well with the notion of book burning.

I'm left with naught more than a shrug.