[majormajor]

SPOILERS (for 30+ year old book, hah)

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To me, the delightful thing about Foucault's Pendulum distinct from the broader "conspiracy fiction" genre is that there is no conspiracy discovered, only created.

And that's a fundamentally different story and investigation into human nature than a straight conspiracy story like Da Vinci Code - IMO, a much more interesting one.

[InitialLastName]

Spoilers for a 40+ year old book:

The conclusion of Illuminatus! is a level of indirection above that.

[majormajor]

To each their own; I didn't make it through the series but it felt much more fantastical vs "depressingly real" as it were.