Canticle was always on my list of classics that I really should read but never quite got around to. I finally moved it to a prominent position on my bookshelves, where it sat like an artifact of possibly alien origin inherited from a mysterious great-uncle, an artifact inert and lifeless yet hinting at mechanisms to be activated and energies to be summoned if only one could work out how. In the end, it took me about seven tries before I got into it; the trick was to start at random locations in the story until I found something that kept me reading, then to go back and read from the start once I was into it. Worth it.
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