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The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

door Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

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Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.
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    De slinger van Foucault door Umberto Eco (craigim, ateolf)
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    Eigen gebrek door Thomas Pynchon (Bigrider7)
    Bigrider7: A pair of whimsical books where reality is never quite what it appears, and is much more indiscrete and lacking in continuity than many of us can handle. Secrets about how life operates lurking just beyond the views of perceptions
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    Principia Discordia door Malaclypse the Younger (princemuchao, sbuehrle)
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    Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus (The Chaos! Quincunx) door Garry Thomas Morse (ringreader)
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    John Dies at the End door David Wong (5hrdrive)
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    Blood Republic door James Duncan (fulner)
    fulner: They are like complimentary opposites in a way. Only is a story told in a way specifically meant to mess with your mind and not make sense the first time through with competing stories, the other seems to make perfect sense until you learn it's been several timelines all along… (meer)
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    Het verloren symbool door Dan Brown (PghDragonMan)
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1-5 van 53 worden getoond (volgende | toon alle)
A classic bit of bogus balderdash wrapped up in sex, drugs and conspiracy theories. Writing style? Think James Joyce meets Ayn Rand and has a love child on acid. Fnord. What made it especially eerie this time around were the echos of today in yesterday. If you want to understand the zeitgeist of today's American politics, smoke this book from 50 years ago - it'll really get you out there. ( )
  dhaxton | Feb 6, 2024 |
Changed. My. Whole. World. ( )
  deliriumshelves | Jan 14, 2024 |
2 stars. Sometimes engaging, clever, and entertaining. More often nonsensical and indecipherable. Just not my kind of book. Satire I didn't always get. Endless avalanche of references I didn't have the interest to research and fully appreciate. Appendices may have tied it all together a bit, but it was hard enough getting through all 3 books. ( )
  iaross | Sep 21, 2021 |
This just isn't going to happen, not now.

Robert Anton Wilson's (and that other guy's) trilogy is one of those books that hovered around the edges of my awareness as a cult novel(s), and that alone was enough to prompt me to read it. I'm always in the mood for conspiracy theory, and odd-ball sensibilities are fine as long as there's a point. One hundred pages into this and I've realized, there isn't. Perhaps there will be at some point, and perhaps I'll return to this in the future, but for now, I'm done.

Look, you can make all kinds of statements about the rigidity of the novel's form, but random switching between speakers/POV without even the slightest convention to clue your reader in is risky, so there needs to be some payoff. You also risk alienating them before the payoff arrives. Well, I read one-eighth (yes, it's 800 pages) and there was no reward in sight, and in fact I found myself staying up later at night simply to avoid having to read this book. That's no way to feel about a novel. So, I'm done.

If anyone is reading this, feel free to read someone else's blurb to find out what this story is about, because I don't know. I can tell you want happened in my 100 pages (not much), but if you like the idea of interconnected conspiracy, I recommend Foucault's Pendulum, which has many qualities to recommend. Not least of them a plot.
  allan.nail | Jul 11, 2021 |
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Shea, Robertprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Wilson, Robert Antonprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Ochagavia, CarlosArtiest omslagafbeeldingSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.

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