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Gar
Jul 12, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Honestly, the bury-the-needle rating on this is primarly from nostalgia and gratitude. The thing is, the book saved my soul. I say this because I read the Illuminatus! trilogy the very first thing after stumbling into reading Ayn Rand's Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged in high school, as a fairly bright and moderately-creative geek, which qualities looked even more exaggerated by relative comparison to a very small class size. That's like getting injected with concentrated live-culture viruses af ...more
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Nov 28, 2009 rated it liked it
Influenced me strongly at the tender young age of fourteen, though I couldn't tell you exactly how. ...more
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