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After reading the Illuminatus Trilogy, I was really anticipating this novel. Robert Anton Wilson's high mind style of writing is enjoyable, if a bit fractured. I really had high hopes.
This book fell kind of flat however, as Mr. Wilson attempts to visualize the concept of the multiverse my creating different versions of each of his characters, many of whom first appeared in the Illuminatus. However what the author does not do is adhere to any kind of real plot, and just when you think you might h ...more
This book fell kind of flat however, as Mr. Wilson attempts to visualize the concept of the multiverse my creating different versions of each of his characters, many of whom first appeared in the Illuminatus. However what the author does not do is adhere to any kind of real plot, and just when you think you might h ...more
Although it would be helpful to people new to RAW to read The Illuminatus Trilogy first, I thought that this was by far the better work. It started out slow and pretentious, and then burst into an amazingly absurd spectrum of parallel universes and alternate realities. I loved it, and would recommend it to just about anyone. Especially anyone interested in metaphysical physics and out-dated occultism.
I will always be a little bit in love with Joe Malik. It's inevitable. ...more
I will always be a little bit in love with Joe Malik. It's inevitable. ...more
I just re-read this for the first time in over a decade and thoroughly enjoyed it. Dense, informative, heteroglossic, multifaceted, and--above all else--hilarious. Classic Robert Anton Wilson.
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