A Canticle for Leibowitz

This book is highly rated, so I expected more from it. I was disappointed. Perhaps if I were more steeped in Catholicism, I would have appreciated it more. I don't know Latin, so I don't know if all the Latin passages were actually Latin, or as I suspect, faux Latin. (Illigitimus non carborundum.) For me, A Canticle for Leibowtz dragged, especially after the first part, which takes place some six centuries after the death of Leibowitz following a nuclear holocaust in the mid to late twentieth century. The book spans centuries, and it really seems like it. It never really built to much of a climax, but at least it did reach a conclusion. Deo gratias.