I loved Robert Anton Wilson’s fiction and non-fiction in my late teens and early twenties, and so was delighted to discover this audiobook of interviews and lectures – most of it a series of five long interviews from about 2000, and then a couple of lectures delivered in Boulder, Colorado, in earlier years. I’d heard or read most of it before, and have outgrown some of it, but his humorous, cynical, sceptical take on life, politics, literature, religion and the nature of reality was a refreshing break for me over the last few weeks (switching between this and the much less interesting METAtropolis). His Brooklyn drawl seemed to sharpen the humourous but deadly serious points he was making beautifully. (Though I was sufficiently perplexed by the way he pronounced "monotheism" as "m’NŌTHyism" to set up a poll about it.)

I was really prompted to get this because LibraryThing kept recommending it to me; apparently because the other owners of many books in my library also own and like this one. The full list of related books, as diagnosed by LibraryThing’s algorithms, is long and suitably eclectic and Discordian; I think Wilson would have been very glad to be seen in the company of some of these, and I hope that the authors of others (at least one of whom occasionally reads this lj) would be please to be grouped with him.