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Summary: they're greeaaaaaaaaaaat
Review: I don't know why people think that these books will make you insane, they can only open the eyes. I really loved the part where death and taxes become a thing of the past (and the government becomes useful).
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Summary: they're greeaaaaaaaaaaat
Review: I don't know why people think that these books will make you insane, they can only open the eyes. I really loved the part where death and taxes become a thing of the past (and the government becomes useful).
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Summary: A pure shot of literary LSD
Review: I picked up this book having NO idea what I was getting myself into, only buying it because the title and the comments on the back sounded interesting. The book, though, surpassed any expectations I may have had, with a style of storytelling that keeps you guesing until the very last pages as it tries to follow Benny "Eggs" Benedict, Dr. Dashwood, Ulysseus, and the rest of a terminally odd cast through 10^23 permutations.A great book, just don't go crazy reading it.
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Summary: Everything that can happen did happen...
Review: I read the Illuminatus! trilogy about ten years ago and then accidentally came across copies of the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy at a used bookstore.
I started and can't put them down. I don't have a huge scientific background, but ther is a true theory called Schrodinger's Cat and anyone who thinks that these book are rubbish just must not know this. They perfectly embody the idea of of the cat.
And Wilson's crazy blend of fact and fiction just encouraged me to get more information about the past and science and the universe and every other thing that I could think of.
Read this book with an open mind. Or read this book and open your mind.
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Summary: Multiple Worlds, Multiple Madness
Review: In some senses, even better than his magnum opiate, the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Taking a look at a group of people, he follows their lives through parallel dimensions, resulting in vocatational, world economy, and even sexual changes. Some characters are reprised from Illuminatus! but the book stands alone just fine. Truly remarkable. Fnord.
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Summary: Multiple Worlds, Multiple Madness
Review: In some senses, even better than his magnum opiate, the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Taking a look at a group of people, he follows their lives through parallel dimensions, resulting in vocatational, world economy, and even sexual changes. Some characters are reprised from Illuminatus! but the book stands alone just fine. Truly remarkable. Fnord.
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Summary: Flossing is the answer
Review: Outstanding. I could give this book a million stars and still be a side-ways eight shy of doing it justice. As always, Wilson (who any intelligent person would rank in the greatest minds of the 20th century), never ceases to amaze. Your mind will open a little more and more importantly, you'll laugh your ass off. I have read this book 12 times, and I get something new out of it each time. It is impossible to use words to describe Wilson's talent for writing. He makes previously arcane topics not only accessable, but romantic. I almost cried the other day when reading a poem about "The Cat" by Cecil Adams [the straight dope]. That's how good this book is. It will change your life.
This book however does require some knowledge of history, economics, and literature. No knowledge of quantum mechanics is needed.I think the best part about this book is the chapter on "OCCULT TECHNOLOGY". That being said,
The story herein is set in a variety of parallel universes in which most of the politicians are theives and most of the theologians are maniacs. These universes have nothing in common with our own world of course.
Of course. ;-)
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Summary: conspiracy, Bell's theorem, and a transmigrating phallus!
Review: Phazing in and out of space and time can get pretty hectic,so hold on to your...erm...appendages. Schrodinger's Cat is instruction by induction into contemporary Quantum Theory, as well as beinga damned hillarious novel. Wilson somehow strings together a cast of constant characters in a web of infinite probablities and many worlds who remain, despite certain environmental and anatomical changes, familiar to the reader. Were you sick the day they explained QuIP, Bells Theorem, and Non-Locality? Dont panic! Wilson even provides a glossary at the back of the book to help you thru the more technical bits of his trilogy. Discordians, Kabbalists, Terrorists, a Novelist, and a sex-doctor from the Orgasmor institute all find themselves crissing and crossing in space and time. Looking for that meta-theory that will explain everything? I found it in Schrodinger's cat. Buy this book now. That's what credit cards are for. That, and so that the secret government can trace your every move. Learn _their_ secrets. Buy this book.
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Summary: RAW is a "genius, Genius, GENIUS!!"
Review: Robert Anton Wilson is like a man living on the moon, sending telegraph signals to Earth about its inhabitants and conditions...
Robert Anton Wilson is like a "voice in the wilderness", speaking softly to himself, hoping beyond hope that someone will Hear him and understand
completely
Robert Anton Wilson knows the Way Out to the Universe Next Door
Robert Anton Wilson is God (and I mean this literally!)
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Summary: The carnival of weirdness continues
Review: Robert Anton Wilson, the "last Scientific shaman of our age" provides us with a guide to illumination in this series of three books that are one book. Each volume here collected is a different view of the same world, a ride through the most radical theories of modern physics. Many characters from the Illuminatus! Trilogy reappear, including Simon Moon and the midget Markoff Chaney. They all take slightly different forms, except for Chaney, who appears as the ever constant Random Factor. And when Ulyses return to Ithyca, we get a peak at what Wilson's imagination is capable of. The book may be slightly perverse. But then, he's writing about the state of the human race. I assume that it is only Wilson's positivity that keeps him from writing us all into a novel that would make Sade cringe. The point here is to enjoy, observe, and learn. Readers of Illuminatus! will certainly enjoy this book. Moralists, of course, will weep in their beds. But that's the best part of all...
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