cyclonopedia is perhaps a modern version of the infamous necromomicon, negarestani another mad arab, an insane iranian genuis and i'm really loving what he has done in complicity with anonymous materials, although very dense and somewhat phantasmagorial the book shifts and turns from grimorie to the art of desert warfare, a hybrid of renegade archaeology and philosophy of oil populated with jihadis, oil smugglers, delta force operatives, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and various puppets of the underworld. 
there's an inscription on the inside cover from a graham harmen that sums it up nicely, 'reading negarestani is like being converted to islam by salvidor dali' and i can dig it.
although not a convert i have nothing but respect for the conceptual brilliance of this book and i believe negarestani is a kind of writer like william burroughs whom has revolutionised the word.