Eye In The Pyramid Review

The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I tried to read this when it first came out. I was in college then, and I didn't really get it. I just gave it another chance recently and was much more impressed.

This book is not to be taken seriously, any more than you would take the conspiracy nuts on the Internet seriously. We didn't have the Internet when this first came out, so I made the mistake of taking the story at face value when I first read it and as a result I missed the whole point of the thing.

The story is hilarious. It makes fun not only of conspiracy theories but of Ayn Rand, Ian Fleming, intelligent porpoises, the John Birch society, and who knows what else.

I don't know if the authors can sustain something like this for three novels, but then I didn't think Stephen Colbert could keep "The Colbert Report" fresh and funny for as long as he did either. I am reading the second book now.



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