How to Mutate and Take Over the World

by R.U. Sirius and St. Jude

In the year 2000, a collection of computer hackers, artists, and free thinkers join Mondo Vanilli in a crusade to overthrow a censorship-crazed government which oppresses through technology. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345392167
• ISBN13: 9780345392169
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

mind-melting - this is what "Postmodern" means

For sheer paranoid frenzy power, this book is best read in turns with Shea & Wilson's "Illuminatus!" trilogy. This is brilliant stuff, I truly believe this is a fine sample of where writing can take us if we give Art free reign. This is one colossal whack on the brain that makes acid look like ginger ale. The complex layering of stories-within-stories here toys with the rational mind, gradually drawing you in and distorting all perception until the barrier between real and not-real starts to bleed, and sorting what's going on from what isn't becomes frightening, difficult, and rediculous. For anyone struggling with literary catchphrases, this book is what they mean when they say "Postmodern." I have two copies, a friend of mine has ten. We take this seriously. Sorta.

A very interesting read

Agreed! This is actually a very interesting book with unique style, probably would not be appreciated by the right-wing republican extremists or even baby boomers. This is a book for the college kids who called themselves X generation or whatever. You have to randomly dig into the text and get something out of periodically. Both co-authors sometimes would give the readers an impression that most of the time during their writing, their minds were in a rocky mountain HIGH condition, and full of inspirational thoughts, sometimes rebellious, cynical, anti social, and full of hatred to the corporate world; yet sometimes calm, penetrative, perceptive and philosophic. For example, they have pointed out that in order to meet with the signed contractual publishing deadlines, lot of modern day authors have to use formatted writing technics to actually manufacture a book like a product in a rush. That's why so many books we read nowadays would always look alike: having a good start, then a lousy medium process and finally, a terrible and rushed wrap-up; an ending so focusless that always let readers feel helplessly pissed, being cheated and wanted their money back! I think this book is the collection of both authors' trivial thoughts during their grow-up journey, since they are also middle aged people now, these sometimes ridiculed, twisted ways of looking at life and the world might never be materialized again. It would make this book look like a combined personal diaries that they felt should have to be shown to other generations before they put it away. This is a book that you could flip through randomly but never feel lost, bored, or beign cheated; a far better candid read than the tasteless, aimless, circling-around, all-read-similar "Spenser" series by Robert Parker.

Hey! I liked it. ;)

Oddly enough, it actually did do what the authors hope it would do: make you think. & lt;BR & gt; & lt;P & gt;Okay..maybe they asked for something a bit different. However, it was a change, a shift of the normal point of view. & lt;BR & gt;The style of narration is also interesting... and if anyone has become part of an OL community, it is easy to see how these viewpoints occur. & lt;P & gt;One day, you talk about random boring things, i.e- Books, the perverse, religion.. & lt;br & gt;..and then *BOOM!* you talk about philosophy and politics. It's kind of worrying =) & lt;BR & gt; & lt;P & gt;However, this book does open your eyes.... & lt;BR & gt;All in all, it's a good book.