Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
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Book Reviews of Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy
Book Review: The carnival of weirdness continues
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Anton Wilson, the "last Scientific shaman of our age" provides us with a guide to illumination in this series of three books that are one book. Each volume here collected is a different view of the same world, a ride through the most radical theories of modern physics.Many characters from the Illuminatus! Trilogy reappear, including Simon Moon and the midget Markoff Chaney. They all take slightly different forms, except for Chaney, who appears as the ever constant Random Factor. And when Ulyses return to Ithyca, we get a peak at what Wilson's imagination is capable of.
The book may be slightly perverse. But then, he's writing about the state of the human race. I assume that it is only Wilson's positivity that keeps him from writing us all into a novel that would make Sade cringe. The point here is to enjoy, observe, and learn.
Readers of Illuminatus! will certainly enjoy this book. Moralists, of course, will weep in their beds. But that's the best part of all...
Book Review: one of the best books I've ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
the yellow submarine
edged toward the lawless land
to unload
the terrorists
to explode
the sands.
Multi dimensional thinking, sexual experimentation, tragic hypotheticals, magical incantations, a precursor to the telepathic cop on Heroes (how many are floating around in reality?), a beastiality in a box . . .
shifting styles, parallel storylines, educational descriptions of quantum physics and consciousness
I suspect it was inevitable, but that the rapid shift in attention by the modern day psychic community to the field of quantum physics was largely triggered by RAWilson.
A book I only read once before it was stolen, well worth the purchase because it is so dense with undiscovered riches you can read it again and again without losing interest. Written in layers, to reveal different secrets to different kinds of readers.
Book Review: A sequel that actually equals the original!
Summary: 5 Stars
While the Illuminatus was a confusing, lsd-induced ride through time and various viewpoints, Schroedinger's Cat streamlines the POV shifts. Obviously Robert Shea's part in the first volume added a certain "fuzziness" to the narrative. Wilson writing alone is easier to follow. The book follows movement between universes as the previous ones are destroyed every hundred pages or so. The only constant: a dismembered penis that once belonged to a man who underwent a sex change operation. Men become women, women become men, and scientists do whatever they please. Brilliant, daring, the words are not sufficient to describe this masterpiece.Book Review: one of my top 2 sci-fi books
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a work of genius. First of all, any book that mentions Jan Dismas Zelenka has already won my heart. But more importantly, this book is a masterpiece of structure. It is a perfect example of the principle of "what goes around, comes around," every little incomprehensible detail being resolved perfectly in a way that makes the book into a circle, just like the stages of society in the less-satisfying _Illuminatus Trilogy!_ Less in the Celine spirit, perhaps, but in my opinion a far greater work.Book Review: A pure shot of literary LSD
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this book having NO idea what I was getting myself into, only buying it because the title and the comments on the back sounded interesting. The book, though, surpassed any expectations I may have had, with a style of storytelling that keeps you guesing until the very last pages as it tries to follow Benny "Eggs" Benedict, Dr. Dashwood, Ulysseus, and the rest of a terminally odd cast through 10^23 permutations.A great book, just don't go crazy reading it.