The overall feel is like you’re reading a parallel universe of an alternate history book. The humor and blatant non-seriousness of these woven stories leaves the reader with a feeling of not knowing what to believe. But Illuminatus!, at the very least, isn’t hack writing like Dan Brown’s.Ĭould I convince you to read it knowing that you can expect talking dolphin poets fighting off a secret government’s pop star-zombie Nazi army during a Woodstock-type rock festival? Or that it is full of Zen philosophy, Discordian ideals(look it up online), Freudianism, nympho free masons and outright nonsense? It is also chock-full of secret societies, conspiracies, LSD, giant golden submarines and escalating cold war issues. Okay, that also sounds like other books you’ve read. It really is up to the way you interpret it. Or perhaps just back to the eighteenth century. But involved here is a conspiracy that may go back 18,000 years in the past. Yes, this sounds similar to plots from other books you’ve read. Detectives assigned to the case discover that the cause is actually much more confusing than they originally supposed. The editor of the magazine has disappeared without a trace. The offices of a magazine are bombed, supposedly by a militant conservative group of some sort. The plot of Illuminatus! is difficult to describe, but I’ll try. Reading Time: 3 minutes Photo illustration by Marcus Jones
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