I'm now reading the "Saint Leibowitz" newer lengthier book. I find it highly entertaining, and the more irreverent it is, the better it pleases me, actually. Frequently, readers of the first book hate the second one, precisely for the differences between them.

For a number of my adult years I was a New Mexico resident, and made visits to both Texas and Oklahoma. The holy wars carried on in the name of the book's Church take place in those areas mostly, and much is made of the pre-Christian, earth-and-sky-based beliefs of the nomadic nations of people who still populate the plains and the rural places outside the disputed cities. All of this takes me back to my years of living in the Southwest. Predisposes me, in all honesty, to favor this book.