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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.

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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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I gave this book 5 stars. - As science fiction it would get 2 - As philosophy it would get 1 (the world-view it argues for is much better discussed in other books--some of them even by RAW) - As humor it would get 3. Maybe 4 on a good day - As conspiracy theory it would get 4 - As research it doesn't even rate 1 - As a good guide to things to research for yourself, it's a solid 4 (great game: open to a random page and pick 5 things to look up in a library)But it crosses the line on two things: *

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



Bit of an odd one, this. I have decades of experience of the books, just about everyone I know has read them and the themes are constantly quoted all around the place in half-joking asides, yet I never got around to reading them.So, I figured it was about time I did. And I'm sorry to say they were a bit of a disappointment.I think that had I read them when I was 18, I too would have been entranced and thought they were brilliant. But reading them now, I found the writing style extremely

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

(Edit, 8/3/13: finally finished this. Review still stands.)On p. 650 of 800 but the last 70 are just appendices and I feel like writing a review now, so . . .I've been reading this very slowly over the course of many months, which I guess is a reflection of how little it has really engaged me. On the other hand, I feel no animosity towards it, and fully intend to finish it eventually. To my taste it is neither especially good nor especially bad; it is just a odd, underwhelming if inoffensive

One helluva trippy, sprawling, funny, frightening, weird, baffling, wonderful novel that I have read many, many times.