Valis , the disorienting and eerily funny centerpiece of Philip Dick's trilogy that includes The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer , is part science ...

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Ever feel paranoid? Well not like Philip K. Dick did. You've seen any number of the movies based on his work but for a full dose of the Philip K. Dick universe, dive into Valis. Dan Brown wishes he was this paranoid. Jesus had a family? The NSA has machines that store all our secrets? Child's play!

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Crying of Lot 49 [by Thomas Pynchon, Reissue Edition, Pap... Added Apr 11, 2008

Crying of Lot 49 [by Thomas Pynchon, Reissue Edition, Paperback]

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Pages: 192, Paperback, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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If Philip K. Dick is the Rolling Stones of Paranoid Conspiracy, Thomas Pynchon is the Beatles. His overarching view of a centuries long postal conspiracy begins to move from the sub-conscious to the conscious of his protagonist, Oedipa Mass' mind. At each step of her journey toward the cuminating auction for a rare stamp "Lot 49," she falls deeper and deeper into a shadow reality behind the mundanity of her everyday life. Is it a vast global conspiracy or a coincidence? More importantly does it matter either way. Thomas Pynchon offers more breadth and mystery in a paragraph of this book than Dan Brown does in 4 novels.

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Last Temptation of Christ [by Nikos Kazantzakis, Reprint ... Added Apr 11, 2008

Last Temptation of Christ [by Nikos Kazantzakis, Reprint Edition, Paperback]

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Nikos Kazantzakis,Paperback, English-language edition,Pages:512,Pub by Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

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Christ married Mary Magdalene? Old news here. Kantzazakis wrote about his own spiritual crisis by imagining Jesus being saved from crucifixion and settling down to a ripe old age with Mary. Regarded as blasphemous by some, merely controversial by others, the book is neither. The author like many before him is questioning his faith in print and uses the alternate version of the life of Jesus to illustrate his own crisis. Surprisingly sympathtic character - Judas. Oh and Kantzazakis also won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Illuminatus Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden A... Added Apr 11, 2008

Illuminatus Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden Apple & Leviathan [by Robert Shea, Reissue Edition, Paperback]

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The Illuminatus Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden Apple & Leviathan Books

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The Illuminatus Trilogy is the Steak and Lobster dinner of paranoid conspiracy thrillers. Delicious and incredibly filling but you'll probably feel like you ate a bit too much afterward and maybe your drawn butter was spiked with...something. Just a kitchen sink of the conspiracy classics from sinister cabals of leaders running the world from a lost kingdom under the Himalayas. to the free masons, the truth about Kennedy's assasination and on and on. A classic of the late sixties that still seems, well, like it was written in the sixties, today.

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Foucault's Pendulum [by Umberto Eco, Reprint Edition, Pap... Added Apr 11, 2008

Foucault's Pendulum [by Umberto Eco, Reprint Edition, Paperback]

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Three clever editors have spent too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts. On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding bits of knowledge into an incredible computer ...

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Foucault's Pendulum is exactly like the DaVinci Code but approximately a googol times better.

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