The Illuminatus! Trilogy : The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

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Summary: The Illuminatus Trilogy
Review: This book is absolutely mind-blowing. Much closer to the truth than it is science fiction, The Illuminatus Trilogy will leave you spellbound. I have never seen a book quite like this. Read it and you will not be disappointed.

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Summary: Conspiracy or Not?
Review: One of the most enjoying tomes I have ever read. Funny, enlightening, and disturbing all at once. Every time I read it new things are made clear to me. Will spin your head and slap you in the face at the same time! HAIL ERIS!

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Summary: The only Scripture capable of making a Pope in under an hour
Review: Reveals the Law of Fives-- the more we study it the more we see its effects. Asks what is the difference between an "actual" Emporer and one who is just treated as Emporer and presents us with the shattered myths of Emporer Norton I. Chaos as blind luck vs Justice as blind order...

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Summary: Not just a book, but a hell lot more
Review: One of the greatest books of our time, it totally changes your way of see the world. Just do not read too much at the time, people will start to look funny at you every time you open your mouth. Hail Eris, all hail Diacordia!

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Summary: Hail Eris!
Review: If you're anything like me (eight feet tall, 700 lbs., flipped inside out, seven heads, and one giant finger), you'll love Illuminatus! If you're nothing like me (not eight feet tall, not 700 lbs., flipped outside in, more or less than seven heads, and many small fingers) Illuminatus! will still love you.

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Summary: The greatest, most inspiring book I've ever read.
Review: This book requires great amount of concentration to wade through and memory to remember all of the characters/times/places this book introduces to the uninitiated. Like any other piece of high OR low art (which is this again?) it takes a few reads through to make sure you soak it all in. Based mostly on the Principia Discordia and the works of Timothy Leary, H.P.Lovecraft and Buckminster Fuller, the book taught me as a 14 year old, of a world of conspiracies and supernatural I had never imagined watching X-Files. Although silly at most parts, and anyone with an even slightly above average IQ should get the puns and irony, this is a supremely enjoyable piece with, for like i said earlier the uninitiated, will inspire many like myself to READ the works of those who inspired this work. That's really what R.A.Wilson is to me, more or less, bringing the ideas of hundreds of genii(?) to the fore. But I digress, READ THIS BOOK. If you don't enjoy it you've been the victim of your own gullibility FNORD? FNORD! (potard?)

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Summary: Soon you too will see the fnords.
Review: An enjoyable yet chaotic read. Not for the unbizarre

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Summary: X-Files on acid.
Review: The Illuminatus! Trilogy will leave you hopelessly groping for the floor of the room with the trap door that you were just sitting in. You really don't know what to beleive after a while and this just sets the scene for the next 500 pages. Generous portions of surreal humour and eroticism are incorporated neatly into a plot circumventing common perceptions of reality. On the odd occasion I had to pinch the book to make sure it wasn't dreaming. The mix between far out drug induced dialogues and intelligent manipulation of history leaves the mind with a fresh sense of what reality isn't.

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Summary: This book is a classic!
Review: This book is an excellent book that taught me a lot about perspectives. I can really relate to the characters. 23 Fnord

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Summary: Lightweight
Review: Neither Pynchon, Gass, Gaddis, Barth nor DeLillo have any reason to feel threatened. This is lightweight material. For people who want to think they've worked for their fiction without actually having to put any thought into the project. The book is not exactly bad, but it is grossly lacking the mind-numbing agility writers like Gaddis have been practicing for some time. Whether by his intention, the publishing house's design, or simply misinformed, misguided, spoon-fed word-of-mouth, Shea is a pretender to the throne.