I looked at the IMDB website (international movie data base) to make sure there were no Canticle for Leibowitz adaptations that I had overlooked. I searched under "leibowitz" and drew a complete blank. Maybe I ought to have searched under the name of the author? Interesting, this is something no-one will film, but its following impresses me. Maybe someday someone will at least attempt a television adaptation, like a mini-series.

My public library has both the novel in question, and its sequel, which although it has more than one name on it, is said to be almost entirely Miller's work -- the writer who finished it, said his work amounted to no more than tying up loose ends. The sequel which title begins I recall with "Saint Leibowitz" is a much longer book -- and that earlier book is a lot to contend with as it is. I looked at both, and they kind of intimidated me.

I read about how the author, as a war pilot, carried out orders to bomb Monte Cassino, which was like a shrine to St. Benedict himself, and the war was something he never quite recovered from. Certainly, in "A Canticle for Leibowitz," the description of being buried under rubble during a bombing was a vivid and harrowing thing. Maybe the author exorcised a demon or two writing the passages.

Anybody else read the "Saint Leibowitz" sequel, and what did you make of it?