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Summary: Kind of a hard read but worth every bit of effort
Review: This book is excellent and I definitely recommend buying a copy or two. Every time you read it you'll find something new. I'm going to be buying a new copy because I loaned mine out to so many friends it's not in very good shape now.Anyone who is looking at this book already knows what to expect out of it and should just buy it, because by being the kind of person who would look for information on this particular book in the first place, you're the kind of person that would enjoy it. This is the fifth sentence in this review.
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Summary: The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Review: It amazes me how people can claim that Gravity's Rainbow is a great piece of literature (which it is), yet refuse to appreciate Wilson and Shea's magnum opus. The worth of the novel lies in its manipulation of the reader's perception, and its employment of real (and fictionalized) references to literally create whole new universes and methods of viewing reality. It was this book that led me to other works by Wilson, which then led me to read literature on subjects ranging from quantum physics to mass psychology. Wilson in general, and The Illuminatus! Trilogy in particular, are in and of themselves singular methods of expanding one's mind. Sure, in order to understand the book you have to read it three or four times, but it beats the hell out of watching t.v.
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Summary: Just because it's confusing, doesn't mean it's deep.
Review: Absolutely dreadful book. All the worse because the first hundred pages are so funny. But after that it is pure dreck. The book actually contains a terrible review of itself written into the text. Surely it was meant as a joke (or perhaps an excuse) but it's far closer to the truth. Don't be fooled by this books books cult status. Avoid it.
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Summary: life changing read
Review: this book is a fictional work using real events to have the reader understand that nothing in this world is ever truly as it seems due to our limited points of view and the disinformation which clouds our minds everyday. much more easily understood when read along with the illuminati papers and/ or prometheus rising by robert anton wilson.this book can potentially open your eyes to a new view of the world and how it is perceived to be, by yourself and by others. thnk of yourself as open minded? read this book and give yourself a test...
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Summary: Worth about 10 pages of "Gravity's Rainbow"
Review: A mildly entertaining work, despite overall structural incoherence. Weird, trippy, and often hysterical, but ultimately worth about ten pages of Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". For more fast-paced, stylish, coherent Illuminati action, check out Grant Morrison's "Invisibles" comic book series (4 out of 5 stars in that particular genre).
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Summary: Give this book to your children
Review: I'm serious. Hit the kids with this book when they're say, 13 or 14, and you will: 1. Give them a much healthier view of sex and drugs than the government's trying to give them. 2. Plant the seeds that will open them to a whole range of excellent material, from Eco to Lovecraft. 3. Give them a cracking good read! 4. Get them through the pseudo-intellectual 'What is reality'? stage and out the other side with a sense of humor, instead of making them wait til they're in college and boring their friends in coffeehouses. 5. Self-referential joke points.
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Summary: no, really....
Review: I read this trilogy when it first came out after a friend of mine told me it was true and disguised as fiction so it could be published. I laughed a lot about that but at the time I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio on Clifton Ave. and at 2305 Clifton Ave. was the Illumination Company. In the sidewalk in front of the building stamped in the concrete said Weishaupt and sons.Really. Anyway, read this. It was the most fun I had reading in a long time though I had to read it more than once to be able to put it all together.
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Summary: Wild Fun Eye Opening and Great
Review: Jesus teaches the Disciples Bingo as part of the "secret teachings" (Luke! Don't write that down!), the Greek gods take drugs and have visions of Laurel & Hardy, a Cthulu monster resides in the Pentagon, the Republicans and the Black Panthers and the AAA are on the same spoke in the conspiracy wheel. With a very confused and barely recognizeable plot about a disappearing radical reporter and a submarine filled with anarchists (or are they?) Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea create one of the most hilarious books about religion, spirituality, society and politics. Most of the book echoes Robert Anton Wilson's obsessions with Eastern religoins, sex, James Joyce and Kabala but there is enough of Robert Shea's personality in the thing to keep it on an even keel. At 800 pages, you'll read the trilogy in a week and beg for more once you are done. Whether you are Christian, Buddhist, agnostic, Jewish, pagan, Discordian or Muslim, this book will shock, amaze and make you see the world in a whole new way.
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Summary: This is a great book, that helps to see the conpiracies that
Review: In Illuminatus we examine how the true conspiracies really could be, and how through synochrity, the really is no synochrity, and that the biggest secret is not having one, but making people think you do.
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Summary: RAW Entertainment
Review: I think this book wins the award as the most reviewed book at Amazon. That in itself should speak volumes. The book is a dogma bashing rollercoaster ride and it is easy to see why the many dogma-dependent are so easily ruffled in the feather department: Alergies. Seriously, if you are not prone to asking questions, if thinking is a turn-off, this book is liable to stick in your craw or not stick altogether, as the case may be. It has a way of deconstructing its readers and their most cherished assumptions. This book is just one of many written by the amazing Robert Anton Wilson and I heartily recommend them all. Peace.
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