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Summary: best book ever.....
Review: For a certain type of person, with certain types of proclivities, this book is an essential. Funny and instructive this book is still the best book that Robert Anton Wilson has ever written.
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Summary: Legal acid for your brain
Review: We all live in a golden submarine...a golden submarine...a golden submarine. Oh what it must be like to travel with Hagbard's crew! Fnord! I always knew dolphins were smarter than us and I KNEW there was something just not right about the dollar bill and the pyramid thing. For any of you wondering if this book is worth the read...ignore everything you've heard and discover it for yourself. Fnord! I guarantee you'll never be the same again, but in a positive kind of paranoid way.I feel sorry for people who didn't like the book. Closed minds abound in the world, I guess. I just think anyone who doesn't find entertainment value (at a minimum) in this book needs to get a sense of humor and OPEN their eyes. Fnord! So without further ado...what are you waiting for? Get your hands on a copy of the Trilogy (as it's affectionately called within Fnord! circles), drop everything, quit work or school, and tune in!
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Summary: Reader Beware!!
Review: Watch out! This book will destroy your sanity! If you lack sanity to begin with, though, you MUST read this book. It will give you something to strive for.
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Summary: Read this book or/and suffer.
Review: My neighbours must have thought me a very strange one when I was reading this book. The sporadic and uncontrolled lunatic like laughter must have had them worried. In 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy' Wilson eruditely unveils one of the most plausible and down to Earth Conspiracy theories ever conceived.
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Summary: A Must-Have for Any Fan of High Weirdness
Review: This is simply a landmark book for anyone interested inconspiracy theories, religion, international espionage, Art Bell, oranything else considered "fringe". It is a massiveundertaking to actually read this enormous tome, but the size isnecessary to contain the amount of satire within. ...Those with evena cursory knowledge of the subjects receiving jabs will find thisimmensely entertaining. Those unfamiliar with these subjects willgain quite a list of required reading once finished. The book isfunny, smart, and dangerously true in some aspects. Readers shouldpick up Wilson's non-fiction works after finishing to see the amazingway this man's mind must work.
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Summary: Good Rubbish
Review: This book will tie your brain in approximately twenty-three knots and then go about ripping apart every single one. You will love every fnord minute of it.
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Summary: Okay--call it what you will--
Review: but for me--it's a catalyst for mental growth, and could very well make you a nudist, a Buddhist, or whatever. If you ever wondered what the heck is going on--this book will tend not to help you, but if you have *never* wondered what was going on, this book might make you ask. Right around the 23rd reread, you'll experience your fifth major epiphany about life, etc. Yes, it is that good. Folks used to linear thought may want to read it slowly, however. My advice--read it twice! Thrice is nice. Fnord.
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Summary: Don't Get Caught...
Review: Here's the best thing about this book: it is almost entirely factually based, including many real and valid conspiracy theories within the context of the hilarious storyline. Basically, it's a great starter on the world of conspiracies, but you won't get tagged by the FBI/CIA/Trilaterals/Federal Reserve/Illuminati/Masons for having truly purchased a subversive book, like the Unseen Hand or Holy Blood, Holy Grail or something ('cause we all know they keep track of your purchases...)
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is bar far one of my favorites. It has caused me to go on to read the I Ching, the Principia Discordia, and the Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, among other things. I have done several projects in school on this book (though with the graphic violence this is not reccomended - I was able to steer around it but it can be difficult as some of it is needed to describe the plot), one of which being an oral presentation. Questions asked included 'Oh my god, is this REAL?' and 'Have you seen a psychiatrist lately?' Enough of that, on to the plot. The Illuminati are an all-powerful group who control all governments and cause wars to keep the public eye away from them - if you don't believe, look at a dollar bill (explained in depth in the book). A magazine called Confrontation has its building bombed and the editor goes missing. George Dorn, reporter for the Confrontation, is arrested in Mad Dog County for possesion of drugs and placed in an abusive jail where he apparantly hallucinates about his own execution - he replies correctly at the correct time, however, and the Discordians, an anti-Illuminati group bomb the prison and free him, bringing him to see Hagbard Celine, leader of the Discordians and captain of a yellow submarine he built in a fjord in Norway. From there, things get weird. I have read this book many times - well evident from its wrinkled cover patched with masking tape and dog-eared pages. I have had this book for two years and it is not yet old, in fact, I plan to buy another copy soon as this one is about to fall apart.
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Summary: holy crap, it's simply the best book i've ever read
Review: and it is, too. robert anton wilson is a phenomenon, a god among men. sure, the book is long, but so is life...do you not want to live life because you don't have the patience? this book is now my bible...it contains more insights and revelations that any book i've ever read...and i've read a lot of books. reading this book has changed my way of thought and the way i look at things forever. the basic overlying story is one of a conspiracy that is trying to immenantize the eschaton(a.k.a. bring about the end of the world), and a rival secret society trying to thwart their thirty-thousand year old plan. pivotal story points include atlantis, acid, the biggest rock festival in history, enormous sea monsters, ressurected super-nazis, pineal glands and ancient deities. as if that weren't interesting enough, the author has tied together historical fact and blatant, humorous fiction in such a way that you can't tell what is supposed to be taken seriously and what is a brilliantly conceived lie/joke/plot point. read it, read it, read it. thats all i've got to say. and watch out for the fnords.(ha, ha, ha, you'll never know what that means until you read the book.)
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