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37 Reddit comments about The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan:

u/JustTerrific · 128 pointsr/books

Here are my personal favorite head-fucks, each one of them did something strange to my whole world when I read them:

u/RandomMandarin · 38 pointsr/todayilearned

You need to read this.

Illuminatus!

u/mmm_burrito · 10 pointsr/books

The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

u/Lying_About_Cake · 9 pointsr/scifi

Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy is a must read. Also, try The Illuminatus Trilogy not sure if it's considered SciFi, but it's a good read once you get into it.

u/stackedmidgets · 5 pointsr/Anarcho_Capitalism
  • Almost everything by Chomsky (it starts to blur together after a while). Those damned nun-killers from the School of the Americas! Killin' nuns like they do! Manufacturing Consent is a great read for any teenager, although limited in its explanatory power. There's a big blind spot in Chomsky in terms of explaining the universities, the foundations, and how they coordinate with the press.
  • Studies in Mutualist Political Economy -- this one's more fun when you don't know the history already
  • Homebrew Industrial Revolution -- this one's fun but somewhat sloppy on technology
  • Illuminatus! -- probably shouldn't suggest this because there's a good chance that your brain will fall out your head after you read it. This book and other Wilson books ought to be controlled substances.
u/definetlymaybe · 5 pointsr/books

Eco is one of my favorite fiction and non-fiction writer, but if you enjoy conspiracies, I recommend The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

u/HilariousMax · 4 pointsr/politics

Jesus, now I have 40-year-old books in my cart.

You're really fucking up my reading list, Reddit.

u/trollers · 4 pointsr/books
  1. The Illuminatus! Trilogy
  2. 11/10
  3. Conspiracy theory, drugs, sex, Nazi shenanigans
  4. It's not only a rollicking good time but it's also informative on how to understand conspiracy theories.
  5. Here ya go!
u/bamgrinus · 3 pointsr/suggestmeabook

It's not for everyone, but the Illuminatus! Trilogy certainly meets those criteria.

u/project2501a · 3 pointsr/saudiarabia

ok, but let's say I respect the flying spaggeti monster religion. I am polite to Pastafarians and I leave them wearing their spaggeti drainers on their head. Or, I respect that Erisians partake of a hotdog every Friday.

Suppose, someone starts to harass me about how I am a bad person because I do not eat spaggeti and meatballs all the time. Or that I am a bad person because I believe what is written and Fernando Po is really Not Really[tm] the Greatest Conspiracy on Earth(c).

And they do it in Public. All the time. Especially when I am in proximity to Lebanese women.

What then?

----

Insert Mandatory Dawkins quote about Religion.

Bicycle/Tricycle, Hodge/Pogde, All Hail Discord, Five Tons of Flax

You have not read the Illuminatus Trilogy and Principia Discordia and that is why you do not understand. Sinner.

u/US_Hiker · 3 pointsr/Christianity

You must read these two books:

The Illuminatus Trilogy

Foucault's Pendulum.

Both are amazing books near to the topic - the first is a huge spoof that's hilarious and heavily popularized Discordianism (All hail Eris!). The second is a seminal piece of literature by one of the best living authors and everybody should read it...it's about some publishers who put together 'the grand conspiracy' of the Illuminati and suddenly are embroiled in what they created.

I wish the Illuminati was real...the world would be a heck of a lot cooler place!

u/DrHackenstein · 3 pointsr/Psychonaut

Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

u/doctechnical · 3 pointsr/conspiracy
u/Herkimer · 3 pointsr/conspiratard

It was a great book.

u/dreamslaughter · 3 pointsr/conspiracy

Some are true; some are not true.

Trying to figure out which is which is very entertaining.

If you want to really get a handle on conspiracy theories, read this:

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Kinda hard to read at the beginning, but if you get through a hundred pages you won't put it down.

u/jasenlee · 2 pointsr/books

American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

u/anarchopotato · 2 pointsr/conspiracy
u/nekoningen · 2 pointsr/mylittleandysonic1

Well obviously there's a physical version as well.

u/StanleyDecker · 2 pointsr/tipofmytongue

The Illuminatus Trilogy? Or one of its 3 books, The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden Apple, Leviathan?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Leviathan/dp/0440539811

u/JubalBoss · 2 pointsr/pics

It is called the Eye of Providence and has been used/attributed to a group knows as the Illuminati. A behind the scenes group of rulers bent on world domination and the quest for immortality. A good fiction to read is the Illuminatus Trilogy. Hope this helps out a little.

u/sefrojones · 1 pointr/AskReddit

You must own the illuminatus! trilogy.

edit: This book may be described as science fiction inspired, but it is one of the best books (omnibus edition) I have ever read. A used copy is definitely worth checking out.

u/ProlapsedPineal · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I enjoyed this at your age.

The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan

>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.
Fnord.

u/karmakit · 1 pointr/AskReddit
u/cavehobbit · 1 pointr/books

How about something from the 70's?

Illuminatus

u/jordanlund · 1 pointr/atheism

Ok, here's the thing... he has fiction and essays. Both are equally mind blowing but in different ways. The essays are easier to read, I think.

Fiction series:

Illuminatus Trilogy

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440539811/therobertantonwi

Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440500702/therobertantonwi

Historical Illuminatus Trilogy (I think these are the easiest to read of the novels):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561841625/therobertantonwi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561841633/therobertantonwi

http://www.amazon.com/Natures-God-Historical-Illuminatus-Chronicles/dp/1561841641/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236806921&sr=1-15

Essays:

Everything else. I'd start with the book that I linked to here "Illuminati Papers" then "Right Where You Are Sitting Now" and Cosmic Trigger 1, 2 and 3.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1579510027/therobertantonwi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0914171453/therobertantonwi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561840033/therobertantonwi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561840114/therobertantonwi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561841129/therobertantonwi

Cosmic Trigger 3 is subtitled "My Life After Death", it was written after it was rumored that he died...

Unfortunately he did pass away in 2007.

u/Pyramid_Scheme · 1 pointr/bookhaul

Thanks! Is this what you meant with Illuminatus? I haven't heard of it before: http://www.amazon.com/The-Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Leviathan/dp/0440539811

u/Imhotep_23 · 1 pointr/CasualConversation

It may be right up your alley. As somebody on Amazon says, it picks its own readers. If not for Illuminatus! there would have never been a Dan Brown. The difference is that Illuminatus! is a satire, while Dan Brown takes it all too seriously.

u/aronnyc · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

I hear The Illuminatus! Trilogy does that.

u/TheBloodening · 1 pointr/conspiracy

No, you need to go deeper. Once you've questioned enough, USE OCCAMS RAZOR and find the history of these information movements you'll start to see through the fnords. All of this has already happened several times. https://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811

u/valis5 · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Illuminatus Trilogy.

Rarely has so much happened in the first 25 pages of any book, and it is a work of beauty.

u/Treczoks · 1 pointr/pics

My wife is the perfect book detective. I was once browsing a book store and was interested in a book. We left without me buying it. She only remembered two things: The book was blue, and the title was "somehow Latin". And she found it.

u/catherineirkalla · 1 pointr/occult

I think there is some validity to this even though he is mostly known for his fiction. Something like Sex and Drugs may be of interest. The Illuminatus! Trillogy might appeal to those interested in 70's culture as I think several concepts in there could be considered commentary on it. I'm not sure, though, that one would get much practical occult value out of it unless one were a Discordian.