The Dice Man
Books | Fiction / Humorous / Black Humor
3.8
Luke Rhinehart
“One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century,” a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC) 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. “A fine piece of fiction . . . touching, ingenious and beautifully comic.” —Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange “Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution.” —London Sunday Telegraph “A blackly comic amusement park of a book.” —TIME Magazine “Weird, hilarious . . . an outlandishly enjoyable book.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Witty reckless clever . . . . a caper at the edge of nihilism.” —LIFE Magazine “Brilliant . . . much like CATCH-22 . . . the sex extra-juicy.” —The Houston Post “Outrageously funny.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Hilarious and well-written . . . A brilliant summary of modern nihilism. Dice living will be popular, no doubt of that.” —Time Out (London)
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Author
Luke Rhinehart
Pages
320
Publisher
Abrams
Published Date
1998-05-01
ISBN
1590207041 9781590207048
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"Man I really did not like this book. As a psychology student, I understood what the author was going for in trying to satire the psychology ideals of the late 60’s early 70’s. But MAN is this book genuinely hard to read. There are so many scenes of the narrator raping, killing, and just genuinely being an awful human being and the author makes it seem like it’s a good thing. I think that this book is more harmful to read than good, especially if you don’t know much about Freudian psychology going into it. "
"Its been so long, I dont quite remeber it in detail haha! But I think I was happy with it!"
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