![]() I spent so much time with this book that it started to affect both my dreams and waking thoughts. I took about two weeks to get through the whole thing as it stands, and that involved reading for a few hours every day and listening to the audiobook version until I feel asleep. Apparently it was originally going to be 500 pages longer, but the publisher demanded it be abridged. It’s actually three books in one: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan. ![]() It’s bloody long, and parts of it are fairly tedious. If you put any kind of effort into reading this book, it will fuck with your mind. In a way, the reader almost becomes a character in the book just as the characters fall victim to Operation Mindfuck, so too does the reader. It’s similar to Ulysses in the way that it requires a great deal of engagement from the reader to make sense of what is happening. Everything in here effects everything else that’s going on. ![]() ![]() The book is about conspiracies, and all conspiracies bleed into each other in some way. ![]() After a while though, you realize that this is part of the point of the book. The plot is difficult, and it’s pretty easy to get the characters mixed up with each other. Burroughs in a narrative about sex, mythology, aliens, drugs, Nazis, the mafia, rock’n’roll, magick, Abrahamic religions, satanism and conspiracy theories: it ticks all my boxes. It combines the writing styles of Joyce, Lovecraft and William S. ![]()
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