Auv's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:28:04 -0700 60 Auv's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Auv 0 to-read 4.26 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> <![CDATA[Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups]]> 361838 X-Files, before alt.conspiracy, there was Robert Anton Wilson and his legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy. Now this avatar of conspiriology, renowned for his razor wit and progressive philosophy, takes you on a fascinating, eclectic ride through what Wilson has termed the "Cultic Twilight" where conspiracy theories flourish. Everything Is Under Control covers the range of Wilson's kaleidoscopic knowledge, from John Adams to the Voronezh (former Soviet Union) UFO sighting, the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu to the Mothman prophecies, and everything in between. What do the Freemasons, the Kennedys, and Princess Diana have in common? All are at the center of gigantic conspiracy theories with incredibly complex and endlessly multiplying twists, turns, highways and byways. Arranged by alphabetical entries which include cross-references to other entries in the book and also provide addresses to related sites on the Web, this book is truly interactive — you can dip in, read through, or follow one of the URLs from an interesting entry onto the internet.

What some famous people say about Robert Anton Wilson:
"A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to higher consciousness."
--Tom Robbins
"Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity."
—Philip K. Dick
"One of the most important scientific philosophers of his century — scholarly, witty, scientific, hip and hopeful."
—Dr. Timothy Leary
]]> 435 Robert Anton Wilson 0062734172 Auv 0 to-read 3.81 1998 Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups
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]]> Masks of the Illuminati 241888 SCHOLARLY PURSUIT ENDS IN A
WAKING NIGHTMARE...
Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts—and their murders. Not even when growing terror sends him, trembling through Europe, trying to stop the unstoppable.

Neither the unknown physics professor, Albert Einstein, nor the wild and obscure lrishman, James Joyce, and certainly not Sir John, can grapple with Aleister Crowley and his ancient, terrible order.

An international order of beings so horrifying that it defies human imagination—almost....
An order based in hell and determined to rule the world with evil—forever.

For once you have looked them full
in the face, there is no turning away from the...
MASKS OF THE ILLUMINATI]]> 294 Robert Anton Wilson 0671825852 Auv 0 to-read 4.05 1981 Masks of the Illuminati
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]]> <![CDATA[Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World]]> 62558 Quantum Psychology is the book to change your way of perceiving yourself—and the universe—for the 21st century. Some say it's materialistic, others call it scientific and still others insist it's mystical. It is all of these—and none.]]> 202 Robert Anton Wilson 1561840718 Auv 5 4.23 1990 Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World
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]]> Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy 62567
The missing plutonium a terrorist group turns into nuclear devices, the Mad Fishmonger, the future America called Unistat, our hero Benny "Eggs" Benedict, and the Invisible Hand are real but beyond the Black Hole, out of space, out of time—in the universe next door.]]> 560 Robert Anton Wilson 0440500702 Auv 0 to-read 4.09 1981 Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
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]]> Prometheus Rising 28597 284 Robert Anton Wilson 1561840564 Auv 5 4.25 1983 Prometheus Rising
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