It’s such a wild ride though, that on the second read I found about a million things that I missed first time around. It was a different experience, but maybe even more fulfilling than the first read.

The Illuminatus! trilogy by Shea & Wilson read at a relatively impressionable age of 22 was a mind altering experience that permanently changed my look on what fiction can be. Read it a couple of times since, and it holds up.

Our book club read it a couple of years ago, and I absolutely adored it while no-one else really did. It was bonkers and interesting and deep and stupidly funny all at once.