Illuminatus! for the first time.

[Disco Pickle]

So I just reached the point where the two people, dressed as clowns, argue different sides of an issue.

I wasn't feeling terribly impressed with this book up until this point in the story.

This may have been the most enlightening moment in the trilogy, caused me to question why I've ever taken a position on any issue, ever, and made me feel like the entire acid trip of a book was worth reading.

I still liked Schrodingers Cat better though.

[Triple Zero]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

Yep, it made no sense to me until about 3/4 the way through the first book... about halfway through the second book it actually felt like I was actually reading a book rather than having RAW vomit on  my brain for fun.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

Yep, it made no sense to me until about 3/4 the way through the first book... about halfway through the second book it actually felt like I was actually reading a book rather than having RAW vomit on  my brain for fun.

Such as repeating the long descriptions of the leaders of US, Soviet Union and China verbatim.
On the bright side you see htat sort of shit coming and can skim to the end of it.

[Disco Pickle]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

Yep, it made no sense to me until about 3/4 the way through the first book... about halfway through the second book it actually felt like I was actually reading a book rather than having RAW vomit on  my brain for fun.

Such as repeating the long descriptions of the leaders of US, Soviet Union and China verbatim.
On the bright side you see htat sort of shit coming and can skim to the end of it.

the whole book seems like a really long joke so in that sense, it's entertaining..  other than that, I've found myself wondering why I keep turning the page at times.

Maybe I'm just a masochistic reader.  I'm not willing to discount this theory, as I also some how made it through an entire Laurel K. Hamilton book without setting it on fire, in the hopes that it wouldn't infect anyone else.

[Triple Zero]

No, Schroedinger's Cat was a really, really really long dick joke Illuminatus is ... well it doesn't really have a punchline, it's just got awesome bits.

[Faust]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

Yep, it made no sense to me until about 3/4 the way through the first book... about halfway through the second book it actually felt like I was actually reading a book rather than having RAW vomit on  my brain for fun.

Such as repeating the long descriptions of the leaders of US, Soviet Union and China verbatim.
On the bright side you see htat sort of shit coming and can skim to the end of it.

I always read those in full, and giggled the whole way through.

[Cramulus]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

Yep, it made no sense to me until about 3/4 the way through the first book... about halfway through the second book it actually felt like I was actually reading a book rather than having RAW vomit on  my brain for fun.

I think the trilogy goes through the five discordians seasons pretty well

in the beginning is Chaos - nothing makes sense yet, it's all over the place

it gradually gets more ordered, like a traditional novel

by the climax of the book, we're in Bureaucracy - the narrative is pretty coherent, the story is focused

and then by the end of the book, Aftermath is rising and it starts to get kooky again.



I love Illuminatus, I really do. so much that I own a copy just for lending. It's just too bad that some of the points it makes are getting kind of dated -- I mean, one of the big revolutions in the book is the interracial romance. Which was probably a bit more ground breaking when it was published.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

My edition on the book said on the cover text that you don't really get "in" to the story until page 100 ... or was it 300 .. well, somewhere. Not that the first bit isn't good, but just that nothing really seems to make sense at first.

Yep, it made no sense to me until about 3/4 the way through the first book... about halfway through the second book it actually felt like I was actually reading a book rather than having RAW vomit on  my brain for fun.

I think the trilogy goes through the five discordians seasons pretty well

in the beginning is Chaos - nothing makes sense yet, it's all over the place

it gradually gets more ordered, like a traditional novel

by the climax of the book, we're in Bureaucracy - the narrative is pretty coherent, the story is focused

and then by the end of the book, Aftermath is rising and it starts to get kooky again.



I love Illuminatus, I really do. so much that I own a copy just for lending. It's just too bad that some of the points it makes are getting kind of dated -- I mean, one of the big revolutions in the book is the interracial romance. Which was probably a bit more ground breaking when it was published.

I kept the time period in mind. The characters also have back stories which firmly put them in the appropriate time period.

[the last yatto]

You know there's a sequel right

[Requia ☣]

I don't think that has any direct link to Illuminatus, the publishers description makes is sound like a scifi/AR fanfic of the fall of troy.

[Telarus]

The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy is usually considered the sequel...

[the last yatto]

Well the one written by RAW, but the style of discord's apple is reading simular well minus the fnords