Is fiction about Conspiracy Theories acceptable here?

[BenBurch]

Hey, folks...

Any of you who have not already long ago read the "Illuminatus!" Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, really ought to.

There is just no way you can know JUST how hilarious all this stuff is until you've read that series.

It is a hilarious send up of every Conspiracy Theory in the world as of the early 1970s, and takes the premise, what if they are ALL true? And what if the Conspiracies themselves are just pawns in a vest game aimed at occult transcendence at the expense of the end of the world?

Please.

I mean it.

Go to the Library.

You'll thank me later.

[Aitch]

Go to the Library.

You'll thank me later.

Whatever you do don't pay for it!

Read it last year. I think they were on something strong when they wrote it; I suspect it helps when you're reading it, too!

No offence intended, Ben :blush:

[JimBenArm]

Isn't it all fiction, anyway?

I loved that book. I'm a follower of the Dealy Lama.

[Drudgewire]

I think they were on something strong when they wrote it; I suspect it helps when you're reading it, too!

As one who couldn't get enough of those books in the 90s, I can vouch for you being right about the second part. :D

[Confuseling]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is also supposed to be worth a look, and has much conspiracy stuff in it. I think it's considered quite contrived and indigestible by some people though...

[BenBurch]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is also supposed to be worth a look, and has much conspiracy stuff in it. I think it's considered quite contrived and indigestible by some people though...

His stuff is hideously dense.

[Drudgewire]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is also supposed to be worth a look, and has much conspiracy stuff in it. I think it's considered quite contrived and indigestible by some people though...

Short of trying to read something in a foreign language, no book has ever taken me longer to get through the first hundred pages. http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/sweatdrop.gif

Well worth the effort though.

[BenBurch]

Isn't it all fiction, anyway?

I loved that book. I'm a follower of the Dealy Lama.

Every so often there is a real Conspiracy. The Underground Railroad was one.

The real ones are the exceptions.

[Lensman]

Hey, folks...

Any of you who have not already long ago read the "Illuminatus!" Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, really ought to.

There is just no way you can know JUST how hilarious all this stuff is until you've read that series.

It is a hilarious send up of every Conspiracy Theory in the world as of the early 1970s, and takes the premise, what if they are ALL true? And what if the Conspiracies themselves are just pawns in a vest game aimed at occult transcendence at the expense of the end of the world?

Please.

I mean it.

Go to the Library.

You'll thank me later.

*cough-cough*

;)

[BenBurch]

So I can't >fnord< type.

[tomwaits]

I read the Illuminatus! Trilogy. I honestly thought it sucked. I guess it was meant to be a great big satire, but the jokes weren't particularly funny.

Foucault's Pendulum however is my favorite book of all time.

[Dave Rogers]

Remind me which bit of the conspiracy theories discussed here isn't fiction?

Dave

[timhau]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is also supposed to be worth a look, and has much conspiracy stuff in it. I think it's considered quite contrived and indigestible by some people though...

It's a good story, but the intellectual snobbery that acted as a spice in The Name of the Rose often gets really out of control in Foucault's Pendulum. Shame, really.

If you want good conspiracy fiction, Arturo Perez Reverte's Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel are well worth reading.

[Confuseling]

I think I'm going to have to read it - there's a copy floating around at my parental nest. It seems quite polarising, but better that than 'meh' :)

[Minadin]

Remind me which bit of the conspiracy theories discussed here isn't fiction?

Dave

Indeed. I was just thinking that most of the fiction was posted by the conspiracy theorists themselves.