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| Original Title: | The Dice Man |
| ISBN: | 0006513905 (ISBN13: 9780006513902) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dice Man #1 |
| Characters: | Luke Rhinehart |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Luke Rhinehart
Paperback | Pages: 541 pages Rating: 3.57 | 16728 Users | 935 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Dice Man (Dice Man #1) |
| Author | : | Luke Rhinehart |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 541 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by HarperCollins (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Psychology. Novels. Thriller. Contemporary |
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The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart - and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.Rating Regarding Books The Dice Man (Dice Man #1)
Ratings: 3.57 From 16728 Users | 935 ReviewsDiscuss Regarding Books The Dice Man (Dice Man #1)
I love the concept and the central idea behind "The Dice Man". This novel asks what if we stopped playing our scripted roles and opened ourselves up to other possibilities. We contain multitudes.I love the first half of the book. It explores the central idea in interesting and surprising ways.But then it proceeded to beat me over the head with that same idea for 200 more pages. Didn't help that it got more misogynous and increased the stupidity of metaphors. I got a bit tired by the end.OverallThe hero of this novel (sharing the authors name) is a psychologist who, jaded and sunk into ennui, decides on a whim based on the turn of a die to "rape" (read: seduce) his colleagues wife. After the success of his seduction, he turns to aleatory direction more and more (creating his own options and letting the die decide which to do), until hes built a whole religion or cult after the Dice, complete with nationwide centers where inductees are required to cast away all inhibitions and identity,
I am pretty sure 37v2 has used this method of decision-making for years, whereas others posit 40v2 and chaos theory. (view spoiler)[ Bettie's Books (hide spoiler)]
I liked the concept better than the actual book
Turgid, flabby, lackluster prose struggling to elevate an obscene and immoral wiseass. I should have abandoned it as soon as I saw the page count, because as I suspected it is overblown, overlong, and over-the-top. This is a shame because the world of mental illness has not been all that well-depicted in fiction and the narrator starts out with quite a few choice and well-phrased insights about depression and living with suicidal ideation. It's just that they're anchored to such an unlikable
Thank goodness that's over.I re-read this book as preparation for a talk that I'm giving about chance. I remember hating the book the first time I read it (probably about a decade ago). I hate it more now.Essentially, the plot is that a psychotherapist (named Luke Rhinehart, as is the author of the book) is bored of his mundane life, and decides to improve it by assigning options to a 6-sided dice, rolling it, and then living his life according to the options. Unfortunately, the options that
My feelings are best summarised by these quote from one of the characters in the book: You know this hospital is a farce, but tragic, sufferinga tragic farce. You know there are nuts running this placenuts!not even counting you! [...] You know what American racism is. You know what the war in Vietnam is. And you toss dice! You toss dice!! [...]Im leaving. Thanks for the pot, thanks for the silences, thanks even for the games, but dont say another word about tossing your fucking dice, or Ill kill
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