Reddit reviews Foucault's Pendulum
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Title: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Ebook cost: $9.43 USD
Word count: 215k
Genre: Mystery
Synopsis: A group of vanity publishers, increasingly exasperated by absurd conspiracy theories they're presented with on a daily basis, decide to entertain themselves by inventing a conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories. Events go downhill from here.
Why /r/rational would like it: This book could be considered a self-aware commentary on conspiracy theories, and deconstruction of conspiracy fiction. By its very nature, it shows a pretty rational approach to its themes.
One may also find it reminiscent of Unsong (or vice versa): it's full of clever wordplay and references to obscure occult topics, combining that with several surprisingly modern ideas.
No content warnings apply.
Here you go, boss. This should help you out. It's an amazingly written book to boot.
http://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-ebook/dp/B003WUYPI8/
Crowley's book is not an easy starting point, more of a reference work. As usual, Lon Milo Duquette offers a much easier starting point.
But it is also worth keeping in mind that "the occult" isn't really a thing. There are plenty of hidden things out there, and there are plenty of techniques for making sense and nonsense of the clues that may or may not point there. But there isn't a grand hidden conspiracy of great knowledgable masters who communicate via arcane symbols and snatch aircraft out of the sky.
Or is there?
Not sure what you are looking for, but a book that I am reading now has drastically changed my perspective on a lot of things. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt.
If you are looking for offbeat fiction, I enjoyed Nop's Trials by Donald McCraig
Older, but I like just about everything by Uberto Eco including The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum
Lastly, I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://www.amazon.com/Foucaults-Pendulum-ebook/dp/B003WUYPI8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0