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Friday, January 2, 2026

Mark Brown's RAW-related reading

Mark Brown posts on Facebook what he read the previous month. Here is what he listed:

Reads and Rereads finished in December:
The Magus by John Fowles  12/6  
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler  12/9
Every Day is a Good Day by Robert Shea, ed. by Tom Jackson  12/12
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon  12/18  
Dare by Philip Jose Farmer  12/21  
The Dead Man’s Knock by John Dickson Carr  12/24

I usually post what I read last month, but in a sense I have already done that; in December I read the last five books in yesterday's post.

Except for Fowles, I have read books by every author on RAW's list. But what I am struck by is that every author on Mark's list has a Robert Anton Wilson connection. The Fowles novel is one of Wilson's favorites. RAW was a fan of Chandler, Farmer and Carr. I can't prove RAW read Sturgeon, though it seems likely, but Sturgeon was a RAW fan.

I am having to do this on my phone; I will update this later and fix the formatting. What did you guys read last month?


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