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Title: Nature's God by Robert Wilson ISBN: 1-56184-164-1 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: How about a revised edition????
Comment: I love this series, and don't understand why it is out of print. Nature's God, in particular, is almost impossible to get a hold of (I found a copy via inter-library loan). Nature's God seemed a bit unfinished, like Wilson rushed it to the printers or something because he needed to make a mortgage payment. And so much for the "trilogy," because the story is left unfinished at the end of this book. In fact, readers are told to stay tuned for a book called Walls Come Tumbling Down, but that title gets used for a terrible docu-drama(?) set in modern times. If the author reads this review, I hope he will decide to revisit this series and work since I know their are many fans of Historical Illuminatus out there.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast mindbending experience
Comment: Celine is in the woods meditating while Simon Moon is in the Revolutionary army. Meanwhile the woman that Celine left behind is back in Europe writing feminist papers that ridicule men with great determination.
Halfway through the book they all come together in one large mind-melding thing where all their lives cross if only in hallucinations. Some of the best stream-of-consciousness writing around brings to question all we know about life, war, history, and consciousness collective or otherwise.
This third book of the series is the best of the bunch because it lets its plot play out and then goes into the hallucination scene with a speed that is exhilarating. When Wilson gets going he is a better wordsmith than Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac or Djuna Barnes.
This is reportedly the last book of the series, but Wilson has probably written the fourth book by now. In keeping with the legend every book published has had something happen badly around it - either a dead publisher or a bankrupt publishing house. We might not be able to see the completed Historical Illuminatus trilogy until Wilson dies which may be a long way off, but we will probably see the whole thing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting and amusing read
Comment: I found Robert Anton Wilson's Three Volume Historical Illuminatus Chronicles an amusing read. I read these in the early 1990s and one quote stuck. 'Intellectual laziness and common sense are the same thing. Common sense is just the tradename of the firm.' It has helped me laugh laugh off complacent people for the past ten years. I have applied this quotation in much of my published writing as well as my PhD thesis. I often bring it out during business conferences when people say to me 'That's just common sense'. I have been using this for over ten years and I always get a laugh from the other people in the room and a degree of compliance and dissent from they who try to dismiss and stymie my efforts to help people deal with new ideas.
Read the three books and find it.
I reckon Nature's God should be as well known as Persig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
My only complaint is that Robert refuses to engage in any sensible discourse about his ideas.
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Title: The Widow's Son, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume 2 by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1558021779 Publisher: Lynx Books Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Earth Will Shake by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561841625 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Wilson ISBN: 044050306X Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561841692 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tale of the Tribe by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN: 1561841471 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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