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user-inactivated  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What book has impacted you the most?

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson

RAW uses a method of writing he dubs "Guerrilla ontology". From Wikipedia:

    Guerilla ontology is a practice described by author Robert Anton Wilson in his 1980 book The Illuminati Papers as "the basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'"

When I first read the Illuminatus Trilogy it took about a year to read. Not because it was long (though it is), but because I kept fact checking the book. I found out that a lot of the time that what I thought was a a plausible truth turned out to be completely made up by him, and then other times when I was certain he was lying it turned out to be historical fact. His writing style really challenges how you view the world, no matter if you agree or disagree with what he is saying.