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The Dice Man (Dice Man #1)

Luke Rhinehart

Paperback | Pages: 541 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 16728 Users | 935 Reviews

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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

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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.

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Title	:	The Dice Man (Dice Man #1)
Author	:	Luke Rhinehart
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 541 pages
Published	:	1999 by HarperCollins (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Fiction. Psychology. Novels. Thriller. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.57 From 16728 Users | 935 Reviews

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The 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,

This is a re-read. Originally read this in 1971 and remembered it to be a funny and scathing satire on all the faddish psycho-therapies and theories that inundated the 60s and 70s. Should be interesting to see how it holds up......Well. it did not hold up very well. While The Dice Man enjoys a cult following it is still a book locked in the 60s and not treated all that well in the 21st century. The 60s and 70s was a time of upheaval for psychotherapy. There were some exciting ideas in the air

Hmmm, I'm really not sure about this one.What started off as rather interesting and highly amusing got rather flabby around the midsection, and the novelty of Luke's random adventures as Dice Man soon started to wear off. The numerous (and sometimes seemingly endless) discussions surrounding the psychiatry of the dice and it's use as a therapeutic tool also grew rather tiresome and by the end, although intermittently entertained, I was rather relieved to have finished it.It didn't help that the

This is it. This is the worst book I have ever read. I pretty much hated everything about it, so these are only a few things I took issue with: - The main character is a borderline psychopath, but without the entertainment value of someone like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. - The book constantly tries to shock with its numerous depictions of sexual violence and other forms of physical and psychological abuse, but these scenes have no other purpose: They're completely gratuitous. - The

I liked the concept better than the actual book

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

this book fundamentally changed my perspectives on decision making, our roles in society, and the whole idea of the individual self. Rhinehart suggests that the idea of the self is a crutch that pigeonholes us and prevents us from experiencing things that we would not experience if we were "being ourselves". the premise of the book is that luke rhinehart, a psychologist, decides one day to make all his decisions based on the roll of the die. he writes down six options for what he might do, then