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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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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 plot to go, so they just decided to end it. A huge, utter, complete waste of time.
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Jul 24, 2015 01:34PM
What SHOG said … SHaggy dOG
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The first trilogy concludes ONLY if you actually read all of the appendixes TOO. Avoiding that out of boredom or lazyness, or like one editor said - whom I was pushing a possible translation to: "I have read enough appendixes at the university to know there is no need to read them, ever". Well. She was wrong, when it comes to this book.
Naomi, where would you suggest readers look for a better treatment of the themes you mention in your second sentence?
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco is a much better novel (much better!) for investigating the awful potential of tapping into conspiracy theories.
