RAW ebook is cheap again

 

Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups by Robert Anton Wilson is on sale again as a $3 ebook on Amazon.  Note that you can use the Kindle app to read it on your smartphone -- you don't have to have a Kindle. 

RAW's 'Everything Is Under Control' still a cheap Kindle

 

I have a habit of checking the Kindle monthly sale of books under $4,  and I was surprised to see that for July, Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups by Robert Anton Wilson is on sale again, for about $4. Not quite as cheap as the about $3 I spent when it was on sale in May, but still pretty cheap.

Before I made it a point to crusade on the Internet on behalf of RAW, I had a website devoted to George Alec Effinger, another writer I regard as underrated. (It doesn't exist anymore after Google withdraw support for the site; I have to try reconstitute it). When Gravity Fails, one of his better-known novels, currently is just $2 for Kindle. 

I guess I'm reading it wrong

 

I have been reading Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Coverups by Robert Anton Wilson ever since I noticed it was available for $3 for the Kindle (it's still on sale as I write this.)

When I posted about finding the sale, Eric Wagner wrote, "Bob seemed so excited about this book when it came out. He did not want the reader to read it from cover to cover. He wanted it to function like it had hyperlinks, jumping from entry to entry."

I did jump to other entries when I read the entry in the A's about Hiram Abiff, and I expect to  do more  jumping. I also looked ahead to the Beethoven entry.  But I have mostly been reading it from the beginning, enjoying RAW's voice as he writes about various oddities. I don't want to miss anything!

This is not the first time I have read a reference book the "wrong" way. Years ago, I read the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, a one-volume work. (It has been updated quite a few times, although apparently not recently). My then-wife made fun of me for reading it from the start to the end, saying it was weird to do that with a reference book, but it was really interesting. The only bummer was all of the entries where I had to read about a musician dying young because of drugs (or booze). 

UPDATE: I should mention that I am generally interested in the different ways people read books. I commonly read two or three books at the same time. A friend of mine once wrote that she has a low tolerance for suspense, so when she reads a novel she looks at the ending before starting at the beginning. Another friend very rarely re-reads books, something I do all the time. I just finished re-reading Tolkien's The Return of the King, and I've been re-reading Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder books, in order.