Reddit reviews The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
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Here are my personal favorite head-fucks, each one of them did something strange to my whole world when I read them:
But yeah, by far my favorite is the one at the top of the list, The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. There's just so goddamn much going on in that book, it's one helluva wonderful ride.
You need to read this.
Illuminatus!
The Illuminatus Trilogy.
http://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
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.
Eco is one of my favorite fiction and non-fiction writer, but if you enjoy conspiracies, I recommend The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Jesus, now I have 40-year-old books in my cart.
You're really fucking up my reading list, Reddit.
It's not for everyone, but the Illuminatus! Trilogy certainly meets those criteria.
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?
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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.
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!
Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
>Seeing the fnords
http://www.amazon.com/The-Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Leviathan/dp/0440539811
Illuminatus!
It was a great book.
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.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
can you see the fnords?
Well obviously there's a physical version as well.
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
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.
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.
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.
Not horror, but this one is brilliant:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan.
Also very good: Cryptonomicon.
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Don't give up on it.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
How about something from the 70's?
Illuminatus
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.
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
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.
I hear The Illuminatus! Trilogy does that.
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
Let me enlighten you.
Illuminatus Trilogy.
Rarely has so much happened in the first 25 pages of any book, and it is a work of beauty.
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.
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.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Leviathan/dp/0440539811
seriously.. READ THIS.