The Golden Apple - Mille feuilles

Paperback, 250 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 1986 by Sphere.

ISBN:: 978-0-7221-9222-1
OCLC Number:: 78987186

"Nausea, then microamnesia, then the laughing jag, then sex. Be patient. The clear light comes next. Then we can discuss Truth. As if we haven't been discussing it all along." -Hagbard Celine, The Golden Apple

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.1 The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third- and first-person perspectives in a nonlinear narrative. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.

"Nausea, then microamnesia, then the laughing jag, then sex. Be patient. The clear light comes next. Then we can discuss Truth. As if we haven't been discussing it all along." -Hagbard Celine, The Golden Apple

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.1 The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third- and first-person perspectives in a nonlinear narrative. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.

6 editions

Ji FU reviewed The Golden Apple by Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus Trilogy, #2)

It's like reading an LSD trip.

3 stars

There is 0 break in the story, for whatever story there is, between The Golden Apple and Book 1 The Eye in The Pyramid. I guess that's one reaosn why since at least the 90s Illuminatus! has only been printed as one single volume containing the whole trilogy.

There is not much I can say about this that I didn't already say in 2022 when I reviewed The eye in the pyramid: The writing style is out there; the character who makes up the firt person prose changes with no more than a single paragraph break; I feel it is like what reading an LSD trip would be like. Part of me wondered what it would be like to read while on drugs, but I was going to start doing drugs just to find out.

Without the description of the black mass it wasn't quite as …

There is 0 break in the story, for whatever story there is, between The Golden Apple and Book 1 The Eye in The Pyramid. I guess that's one reaosn why since at least the 90s Illuminatus! has only been printed as one single volume containing the whole trilogy.

There is not much I can say about this that I didn't already say in 2022 when I reviewed The eye in the pyramid: The writing style is out there; the character who makes up the firt person prose changes with no more than a single paragraph break; I feel it is like what reading an LSD trip would be like. Part of me wondered what it would be like to read while on drugs, but I was going to start doing drugs just to find out.

Without the description of the black mass it wasn't quite as offensive as the first. Peronsally I could not have read all three books one after the other. My brain just needs time to heal from all this.

In many places, including on the cover itself, this book is classified as Science Fiction, but it's not science fiction at all in any way. Not like a "But Star Wars isn't Science Fiction, it's a Space Opera" way but there is nothing in the plot related to changes or questions about science. I mean sure there is a submarine on the cover, and there is like one scene that take place aboard the submarine "Leif Erickson" but that's it.

I'll finish the Trilogy, but it will probably be another 3 years before I do.

Ji FU

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