Reality is What You Can Get Away with [Paperback]

Robert Anton Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1996

Here are images of our culture's absurdities, injustices, violence and desires, shot at you in a machine gun like assault on your senses and intellect.

A hilarious, chilling and irrevocably mind-altering, - a left brain/right-brain challenge...a conscious-raising experience filled with laughter, rage -- and truth.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A funny romp ... the best screen is inside your head, just waiting to have this rollicking adventure projected on it." -- Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five

About the Author

Novelist, Teacher and Former Playboy Editor Robert Anton Wilson is the author of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy; The New Inquisition; the Illuminatus! trilogy (with Robert Shea); Prometheus Rising; The Walls Came Tumbling Down; Wilhelm Reich in Hell; Sex & Drugs and many other works.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: New Falcon Publications; 2 Revised edition (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561840807
• ISBN-13: 978-1561840809
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #629,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "This will rearrange the inside of your head if you let it.", September 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Reality is What You Can Get Away with (Paperback)

My friend William Kevin Burke said that after he read the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy, and I would say it of every book Robert Anton Wilson ever wrote. We live in a world where most people can't really call themselves particularly wise (and know it) while a few so-called leaders pretend to be wise; the truly wise number but a handful and often go unrecognized. Even among the wise handful Wilson has few peers. When very young I thought the grownups really understood what was going on: Wilson, that rare bird, actually seems to. I want to see him win a Nobel. RAW's writing often carries so much meaning that one understands only a little at the first reading (I didn't feel I had really mined Schrodinmger's Cat until about the fifth reading. If such depth seems intimidating, would you rather read five shallow, insipid books once? Besides, he runs an easy installment plan: laugh now, understand later.) RAW wrote "Reality Is What You Can Get Away With" as a film script, but it hasn't made it onto a movie screen yet. One may hope, however: modern technology has made it easier to put even the most fantastic visions onscreen quite cheaply, assuming one HAS a vision to communicate. He has.

52 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Notice about ratings, September 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Reality is What You Can Get Away with (Paperback)

Please note that ratings for the above book lower than five five-pointed stars will not be encouraged. However, seven- or nine-pointed stars would be welcomed.

-- The Mgt.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great read, July 13, 2007

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This review is from: Reality is What You Can Get Away with (Paperback)

i read this book one night and when i went to bed i must have laughed myself to sleep!!

this book is a recommended cure for apathy