Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
 

Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

by Robert Anton Wilson

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. The result is hilarious, chilling and irrevocably mind-altering --- a left-brain/right-brain challenge ... a consciousness-raising experience filled with laughter, rage --- and truth. (read review)

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Overview: Amazon Reviews

Sorry, But It Just Didn't Do It For Me
  • Rated 3 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, August 22, 2004
First of all, I've read some of RAW's other work and have enjoyed it immensely. So it was with enthusiasm that I purchased "Reality Is What You Can Get Away With," particularly after seeing the glowing Amazon.com reviews. However, I was disappointed with this book in general. Oh sure, it had humor in a kind of over the top sort of way (although I know that RAW strived for more than humor in the book). But I didn't find that it tremendously "expanded my reality." Maybe that's because I've been in the "human potential," and "freedom" movements for decades. So what RAW writes in "Reality" was not all that shocking, mindblowing or new to me. The book is actually written as a screenplay and perhaps would translate better into the video, rather than the written, medium.

One more thing: based on the reviews of RAW's work I had expected him to be as libertarian as you could find. But there is a passage in "Reality," where he tosses insults at the U.S. because, among other things, it doesn't have a "national health plan." How could anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of economics, society and reality in general really believe that establishing a "national health plan" would, rather than destroying a large part of any economy (as Medicare & Medicaid have already done), bring a slice of utopia into society?
THIS BOOK RULES
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, August 21, 2004
I love this book... it is one of my favorite R.A.W. books.... though i will now need to read Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy : "The Universe Next Door", "The Trick Top Hat", & "The Homing Pigeons" but it is all worth it.... his books kick ass!
Oh, STOP please!
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, April 6, 2002
I laughed until I started coughing up blood. This is without question the funniest script I've ever read in my life, but if I told you why, I'd have to kill you.
insane
  • Rated 3 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, October 13, 2001
its fun, but don't try to make sense out of anything.
Screenplay
  • Rated 4 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, October 11, 2001
Hard to find and fun to read, another addicting tale by Anton-Wilson. Intoxicating and bizarre turns of event that will tempt you to read it backwards to see how it all ends.
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