Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[LMNO]

Also, the acid-trip homage to Joyce's "Anna Belle Liffey" chapter can pretty much be skimmed over, too.

[Triple Zero]

which is that?

also, the bit about the guy shooting the last eagle can be skipped (it's the very last page)

and the book seems really complicated at first and confuses you a lot, thinking you might need to take notes and re-read certain parts, but that's really not the case, it tries to confuse you on purpose and in the end there's not really much you'll miss if you just keep pushing the reading onwards. and it turns out only one guy is actually another guy in real (except of course that All Is One)

[LMNO]

"NoIsaidNoIsaidNo," etc .

[Cramulus]

well I reread Illuminatus a few months ago and I still love the whole fuckin' book.

When I first read it at age 17 it blew my brain apart and opened the floodgates for all sorts of cool stuff in my life.

Less brain-blowing now (at 25), but I caught a lot more of the references.

[LMNO]

Hey, I've still got my thumb-worn copy kicking around.

But I tend to re-read Quantum Psychology more often.

[Cain]

I keep meaning to get that.

Also, Prometheus Rising pwns almost everything else RAW has done.

[LMNO]

The two books mentioned above are really the only RAW books you need.  The rest are just commentary.

[That One Guy]

I keep meaning to get that.

Also, Prometheus Rising pwns almost everything else RAW has done.

Troof. If you only read ONE RAW book, make it Prometheus Rising. Illuminatus! is fun, Schroedinger's Cat trilogy is entertaining, the Cosmic Trigger stuff can be amusing, but Prometheus Rising ... pure quality.

[bubz_the_troll]

I'll make my own assessments about the book.

[Jasper]

That'll be my next Wilson book. 

Bubz, don't take our word.  See for yourself that Illuminatus! was a raw deal.

[bubz_the_troll]

Okay LeVar.

[Triple Zero]

read illuminatus once, blew my brain
second time, less so, but it was funny
third time i really got enough of it halfway through and stopped.

prometheus rising .. i read it a few months ago when Cram (or someone) posted the pdf:

1) i STILL haven't found my 20 eurocent coin in the first exercise i had been imagining so VIVIDLY (in fact i lost 2 euros the evening after i read that exercise)
2) really liked the first chapter, nonetheless.
3) it's probably that i read most of the other ideas from other sources already (deoxy.org etc) that i wasn't that impressed with the rest of the book.

this, incidentally was the reason why illuminatus was such a mindfuck to me, all the stuff i had encountered and been looking for in my life, all the weird stuff, even up to discordianism and much much more, came together in illuminatus. it was sorta like time reversed, i can imagine someone reading illuminatus and start looking up all those things out of interest. to me it was the other way around. i just stumbled on all these weird fringe philosophy crazy shit myself, didn't even know a large part of it was written by RAW, and suddenly it came together in illuminatus. that was the weirdest summer ever.

4) i'd like you guys thoughts about the thing he says somewhere further in the book, about that mass religious experience that 100.000 people saw and was some sort of 5th or 6th circuit mass illumination that was supposedly well-documented and explain by carl sagan as "100.000 people hallucinating the same thing" .. if it is true what he says, it's quite amazing. what exactly happened?

[cyberus]

prometheus rising .. i read it a few months ago when Cram (or someone) posted the pdf:

Link, anyone?

EDIT:

http://www.rawilsonfans.com/downloads/prometheus.pdf

Thanks, 000.

[Triple Zero]

1 - http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?action=search (keyword "prometheus")

2 - http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=11870.msg368787#msg368787

3 - http://www.rawilsonfans.com/downloads/prometheus.pdf

[Cain]

It was also in my psychology rar download, in the Library.