Robert Shea
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| Original Title: | The Illuminatus! Trilogy |
| ISBN: | 0440539811 (ISBN13: 9780440539810) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Illuminatus! #1-3 |
| Characters: | George Dorn, Joseph Malik, Hagbard Celine, Saul Goodman, Barney Muldoon, Simon Moon, Stella Maris, John Dillinger |
| Literary Awards: | Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (1986) |
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It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big—but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated. Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.Specify Appertaining To Books The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Illuminatus! #1-3)
| Title | : | The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Illuminatus! #1-3) |
| Author | : | Robert Shea |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Trade Paperback |
| Pages | : | Pages: 805 pages |
| Published | : | December 1983 by Dell (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Philosophy. Humor |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 14225 Users | 795 ReviewsWeigh Up Appertaining To Books The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Illuminatus! #1-3)
This book was so unbelievably aggravating to read it's hard to fully explain. There are no chapters, three gazillion characters and plots, and most of them are on acid the whole time, so it's nearly impossible to keep track of what's happening. But, there's so much information in it that everyone should know about the rich history of conspiracy theories and mythology that it's hard not to recommend it. Basically, this is a book that you want to have read, but not to actively read.Maybe I'm destroying the integrity of my reading list and goals for the year by rating this along with the three individual novels. I have thus only read either three books instead of four, or one instead of four if I want to think of the books I've read as something closer to the books I've bought, since I don't own old mass market copies of the three books, and thus only 'read' from one book. I think in the spirit of this book it's most appropriate to add four books to my reading list... since
Best book I've read all year. I can't describe it. I can only say that my reading list has quadrupled since adding sources I learned of from this book. It is ostensibly about a detective investigating a bombing, but it is actually about everything and I'm not being hyperbolic. I will recommend it to every smart person I know. It blew my mind so hard. They have me investigating Buddhism, magick, negative-interest currencies, Discordianism, Gestalt therapy, game theory, and so so much more. It
If James Joyce was a one-man literary IRA, then Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea are the literary Al Qaeda. As these groups can be viewed as either terrorists or freedom fighters, depending on your point of view, so it is with this book. As is probably not ironic for a book considered to be the holy grail of conspiracy theory, it's definitely not difficult to perceive the Illuminatus Trilogy as an act of intellectual terrorism. This is not an easy book to read. Time, location, perspective,
Hail Eris! Hail Discordia!Every so many years or so, the world becomes and unrecognizably strange place and I am drawn to Illuminatus! once again. This current misinformational and confusingly conspiritorial age isn't quite what RAW may have predicted, but at least he tried to go there. Oh how he (and Shea) went there. On so many levels.The tale of Hagbard Celine and all the contradictory theories of just what the hell is really going on, and what a ride it is.Hmm I do wonder how it would play
I read this in my 30s and thought it was really good and lots of fun. At 60? Who knows. Maybe I should reread... but I wont. Advice? Enjoy it while youre young and before you get too cynical. 😀
The authors thought they were WAY more clever and intellectual than they really were. Mostly these books were pretentious and boring and a regurgitation of themes that had been explored numerous times in numerous other places. Not to mention the fact that the whole trilogy pretends to be building up to some huge world-altering event that never actually happens. It's like the authors finally realized after 3 books that they didn't really know what they were trying to say or where they wanted the
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