The Widow's Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles)

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Summary: Curioser and Curioser - Wilson delves deep into our concious
Review: As a sequel to The Earth Will Shake, The Widow's Son brings the reader further into the strange world of the Illuminated Seers, the Rosicrucians and renaissance time Italy through the eyes of protagonist Sigismundo Celine. The Widow's Son is a must read for any RAW fan.

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Summary: This Book Is Sex For The Brain!
Review: can i give it a "0"? this sheaf of papyrus that this book is printed on is not worth the pancakes sent from sirius. we must progress to the days of nazi germany in order to burn this book to the ground. his other books are OK, though.

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Summary: This Book Is Sex For The Brain!
Review: Robert Anton Wilson almost defines a new genre with this series. His intelligence and witt will leave you in stitches, and the conspiracies make the X-files look boring. The Chronicles series are part conspiracy, part satire, part historical fiction, part philosophical, and completely mind altering. The characters graft themselves to your skin, and you'll never look at history the same. Consider this book sex for the brain.If it were any better they'd have to make it illegal.

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Summary: Cool book.
Review: The only RAW I had read before picking up this book wasIlluminatus!. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed it (even missing the firstof the trilogy/series). The book is about Sigismundo, an Italian goingto school in Paris, who happens to have...[upset] some very importantpeople. After being attacked, arrested, and going through variousother punishments, he goes through attempted brainwashing by a groupwhich believes he'll be their savior, the prophecized Widow'sSon. Worth buying for the excerpt from the Gospel According to MaryMagdeline alone, it's definitely a great book.

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Summary: One of the best from one of the all-time best
Review: this book(as well as all of RAW's) is important to all of us... "to read Robert Anton Wilson is to sip from the chalice of Bacchus" -me Bob holds a conciousness within himself that we all have once grasped, but have let slip from our hands. He helps us to bend and hold it once more.

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Summary: buy this series
Review: This is Wilson's more adventure-oriented of the three, and is a joy to read. It has the feel of a book more like the Three Musketeers or Treasure Island or something, but it also is certainly a Robert Anton Wilson book. It isn't quite as heady as the other two, but it certainly has its moments. There seems some distance from Sigismundo and the reader this time. Anyway, a great book and a great series. Read them all, if you can find them.

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Summary: buy this series
Review: This is Wilson's more adventure-oriented of the three, and is a joy to read. It has the feel of a book more like the Three Musketeers or Treasure Island or something, but it also is certainly a Robert Anton Wilson book. It isn't quite as heady as the other two, but it certainly has its moments. There seems some distance from Sigismundo and the reader this time. Anyway, a great book and a great series. Read them all, if you can find them.