Illuminatus! Part III: Leviathan

by Robert Shea

Other authorsRobert Anton Wilson (Author)
Paper Book, 1975

Status

Available

Call number

823

Collection

Publication

New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1976, c1975.

Description

Das grandiose Finale - die Illuminaten sind Kult: Nach "Das Auge in der Pyramide" und "Der goldene Apfel" der letzte Band der erfolgreichen Trilogie.

User reviews

LibraryThing member RonManners
"Based on the actual incarnations of the mystic illuminati sects.. the novel ties together everything you've ever dreaded about Watergate, the mafia, UFO's, all the recent political assassinations, Atlantis, Nazi Germany, giant rock festivals, the CIA, pyramid power, John Dillinger,LSD, and the
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last words Dutch Schulz - for starters - in a hilarious raunchy style.
'Illuminatus is the ultimate conspiracy book, and will probably become the biggest sci-fi cult novel since Dune."
Village Voice
Taken from the back cover.
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LibraryThing member A.Godhelm
With a quarter of the book being appendices and the characters realizing they're in a book this is where this series goes from metafiction into a winking declaration of Truth, or maybe fiction that might as well be fact. If you come into it expecting a conclusion that would make sense of the
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nonsense you've spent 600 pages trying to decipher you will be disappointed. Much like a koan, the book isn't supposed to make sense on the surface level, it's supposed to make sense to you, in a flash of enlightenment. Or illumination.
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Language

Original publication date

1975

Physical description

253 p.; 18 cm
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