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Thursday, March 13, 2025

A right wing blogger's book list cites 'Illuminatus'


In response to the question, "What are some books you hold dear to your heart?  life changing or inspirational," the right wing podcaster Martyr Made posts the following list on X:

-Chantal Delsol’s Icarus Fallen

-Mircea Eliade’s Sacred and Profane

-Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, and If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler

-John Gardner’s Grendel

-Philip Roth’s American Pastoral

-The Book of Job

-Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground

-Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle

-RAW’s Illuminatus Trilogy

-Jean Gebser’s Ever Present Origin

-All of Rene Girard’s stuff

There is some brief discussion about RAW and Stephenson in the replies. I haven't listened to this guy's podcasts (his real name is Darryl Cooper). His book list interests me because, aside from Illuminatus!, I am a big fan of Neal Stephenson and I also liked Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. Possibly I should read the other two Calvino titles. 

Hat tip: Jesse Walker. 


1 comment:

Eric Wagner said...

I wish they would have called it "Shea and Wilson's Illuminatus!".