false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244574937m/62542.jpg 57913 4 It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, a radical magazine editor, had snooped into rumors about a still alive & kicking ancient secret society. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, & the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise NY detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big, but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated. Filled with sex and violence--in & out of time & space--the three books of <i>The Illuminatus!</i> Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill--suggesting a mind-blowing truth. 813 1975 The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan total:2325|5:974|4:739|3:402|2:150|1:60| 2325 9392 3319 284 5 13 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Wed Apr 18 15:43:37 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 04:24:13 -0700 2007 - As science fiction it would get 2
- As philosophy it would get 1 (the world-view it argues for is much better discussed in other books--some of them even by RAW)
- As humor it would get 3. Maybe 4 on a good day
- As conspiracy theory it would get 4...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 22:11:48 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 22:27:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jul 12 17:40:19 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 12:33:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 11:46:29 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 30 08:46:07 -0700 2009 High Literature this is not. It is campy sci-fi, saturated with gratuitous sex scenes, psychedelia, conspiracy theories, counterculture etc. When I recommend this book, it's u...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1988 Tue Jul 24 06:38:54 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 06:50:15 -0700 2007
Countless bizarre ideas and ideologies are brought together in a raucous, cha...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 01 03:35:35 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 21 02:51:28 -0800 2008
As is probably not ironic for a book considered...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976 Tue Oct 23 00:59:24 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 01:27:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 13:46:31 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 23:07:48 -0700 2007
"'It's a dreadfully long monster of a book,' Wildeblood says pettishly, 'and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a tho...more...]]> 2 1 true false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 17 09:26:21 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 08:25:25 -0700 2007 Ulysses, but Ulysses unlocalized. Instead of focusing on one person on one day in a very distinct place, it looks at a number of disparate people all over the world in places both r...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 10:36:04 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 11:12:23 -0700 2009
Was much more impressive when I first started reading it some time around 2000 or so. Perhaps my memory of its excellence had inflated in the intervening years. Or perhaps I have gotten much more fluent in conspiracy literature since then, making the...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 05 20:12:06 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 21:32:21 -0800 2009
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a brilliant work--it really is. The writing, references, connections, intentionally loose treatment of history, stream of conscious craziness is genius. But I think I'm just too stupid.
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First off, I read Schroëdinger's Cat first. And liked it better. But enough about that.

So, I'm reading this book. And from reading Schroëdinger's Cat, and thanks to Wikipedia, I know a little about Robert Anton Wilson. Concerning Wikipedia: I wa...more...]]> 3 0 true false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Sep 03 15:04:54 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 15:15:03 -0700 2009 I think it was mostly because I was substitute teaching at the time, so I had a lot of time on my hands to tackle this monster. Had this book been better edited and abridged I think it would be more accessible and wider read.

This book is very funny and witt...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 10 18:53:30 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 10 19:05:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 24 12:36:37 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 12:30:41 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 12:36:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Mon Feb 09 10:15:06 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 10:22:10 -0800 2009 23 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 18:24:19 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 18:33:43 -0700 2009
Now, I think it's gimmicky, cliched, dated, and rather embarrassing. It does, however, have o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Tue Jun 09 13:24:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:30:37 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 27 13:11:23 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 08 07:27:10 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=62542