I could see how one might dislike this book. In fact, I could see how most people might hate this book. It follows a stream of consciousness pattern, flowing fluidly from the events in one character's life to the thoughts of another completely unrelated character. In this way, a very difficult to navigate narrative is weaved, which is not helped by the sheer number of characters, which seemed to number around a hundred, give or (most likely, as I'm prone to exaggeration) take a few. Once making it past the general awkwardness of the style of writing, however, I found this book to be hilarious and addictive--I could hardly set it down.
Arguably, the main character seems to be Saul Goodman, a cop who stumbles upon a vast system of conspiracies when the offices of the left-wing magazine Confrontation is bombed and its editor goes missing. Everything keeps coming back to the infamous Illuminati, but questions keep mounting: who are they? when exactly did they form? are they still around? what is their agenda?...and so on. On top of these questions, there seem to be countless organizations that the Illuminati may or may not have infiltrated, and countless groups of opposition they are up against (that may or may not actually be connected with the Illuminati in secret).
The subject matter of The Eye in the Pyramid is an amalgam of fact, popular conjecture, and pure fiction. The overall message I took from this book: doubt everyone and everything, perhaps even yourself.

And just for fun, here is an excerpt from the book referring to a book review that clearly is of The Eye in the Pyramid itself:
"It's a dreadfully long monster of a book," Wildeblood says pettishly, "and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent--no sense of style or structure at all. It starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural, and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of Faulkner and Joyce. Worst yet, it has the most raunchy sex scenes, thrown in just to make it sell, I'm sure, and the authors--whom I've never heard of--have the supreme bad taste to introduce real political figures into this mishmash and pretend to be exposing a real conspiracy. You can be sure I won't waste time reading such rubbish, but I'll have a perfectly devastating review ready for you by tomorrow noon." ( )

So for years I've been looking forward to re-reading this in anticipation of understanding all the stuff I didn't get when I was seven. But it turns out I pretty much understood it all. The sign of a first-rate conspiracy yarn. ( )

The start of Shea and Wilson's bizarre Illuminati saga, now more popularly sold as a trilogy of three books.

Look for 23.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2006/12... ( )