Illuminatus! trilogy
By Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea

If Foucault's pendulum is Dan Brown for grown ups

The Illuminatus! trilogy is Dan Drown for anarchist hippies. Chock full of conspiracy theories that would make Mulder run for the hills

It's a combination of philosophy, science, religion, and occultism. But also drugs sex and rock and roll. It seems to take it's self very seriously one page then launches into teenage boy like descriptions of sex on the next.

It's disjointed & confusing, kind of like taking magic mushrooms at a festival. But boy does it make you think. every time I re read it I find somthing else

It's an amazing book
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 15 May 2008, 17:23, 6 replies)

Hail Eris!
Loved the bit in this about the lizard Atlanteans - must be where David Icke got it from...
( DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Thu 15 May 2008, 17:47, closed)

Also chock-full of stuff that the KLF would later steal
"Okay, everybody lie down on the floor and keep calm!"
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 15 May 2008, 18:33, closed)

I've never finished this.
I keep picking it up, putting it down, coming back to it, and at the moment it's 200 miles away and I really want to read it now :(
( Maladicta, Thu 15 May 2008, 18:52, closed)

snap
have you done the schroedingers cat trilogy as well?

i read that one first, hen came back to this one. bloody mental

Reinquist and so on and so forth
(harestylenumber1 loves weiner, Thu 15 May 2008, 21:14, closed)

minor point
you missed off the zombie nazis in your description...
(harestylenumber1 loves weiner, Thu 15 May 2008, 21:18, closed)

All Hail Discordia
Damn fine book.
As an Othodox Discordian I can highly recommend it as a coherent and simple introducion to our faith.

Yes.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:09, closed)