I'm about a 100 pages into this and it's pretty crazy. It doesn't seem like a story one can follow too closely. I've just been kind of going along with it. It's also one of the few books that's made me laugh out loud. What does /lit/ think?
>>7235169
Very good, but I didn't end up finishing it because I would read it stoned and restart over and over again. I need to try again now that I don't smoke.
>>7235172
This book is like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Infinite Jest combined.
>>7235169
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fucking dropped
Supremely entertaining and mentally stimulating. I've read it three times. First time was at 16, it blew my mind wide open.
There is a story in there, I think.
If you like it to the end, try reading Prometheus Rising after a short break.
>>7236112
there is a story, but RAW had a hard-on for Joyce and wanted to play some games with the narrative.
i just wish he'd lived long enough to finish the Historical Illuminatus books. the last one strongly implies there was going to be a fourth.
>>7236112
Honestly, I've read nearly all of RAW and Prometheus hold's up just about the worst of all his works. There are nuggets in there that can be useful, but in my personal experience Liber Null/Psychonaut by Carroll covered similar territory and was more effective.
Has anyone read Masks of the Illuminati by RAW? It seems pretty disliked, but I enjoyed it a lot for the fact that he was able to do a crisp, contained plot in contrast to his other fiction.
>>7235196
This guy needs trigger warnings for punctuation.
>>7235196
This is a good reason to drop most books but this one is pretty good.
>>7235193
Yeah that was my first thought when I started reading infinite jest. Very similar style to Illuminatus
