Anyone read The Illuminatus! Trilogy?

Question

Please describe your experience. ("How did you like the book" doesn't really suffice for this one...)

Answer 1

You mean the Robert Anton Wilson books? Those ones?

I don't really talk much about those books. I sort of try to pretend it didn't happen. I haven't seen them anywhere, I don't know what happened to my own copies, I don't know anyone else who has read them.

Why, what happened to you?

Answer 2

read it many many years ago. I remember finding it quite funny. It was difficult to follow, as I recall, because I couldnt understand who was narrating it. Actually, I don't remember who or what the narrator was, but I do remember that when it was revelead, a lot of the story made more sense, and I enjoyed the revelation.

This is probably a really unhelpful answer.

I liked it enough that I also read his Historical Illuminatus Trilogy, and got really into the Illuminati game.

Answer 3

Of course I read the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea and Wilson.

Freakin' changed my life, granted I was impressionable at the time. But I loved it, all the crazy mix of history and conspriacy and sex and drugs and the cosmic trigger. They had dolphins as speaking characters long before Douglas Adams did in his Hitchhiker's Guide stories.
23, I still grok on that.

I remember when the world wide web was first available to me, while I was in college and I visited the Robert Anton Wilson site and they had infinite scrolling ... just one huge wonky page full of odd bits.

I'll never forget reading the book and it all coming together with the cyronically frozen nazis(from the dna of hitler's nose) coming out of the tunnels and the giant goddess (created by multi-O's) striding over to smite them. It was like tripping.

Wow, now I remember Hagbard Celine and John Dillinger and Laurel and Hardy and Bugs Bunny. Geez, it's been years since I've read it but it must've neurologically imprinted archetypical goofyness into my head.

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