Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart
The dice don't do rules; the dice do life. Luke Rhinehart is a psychiatrist, a husband and a father; his life locked down by routine and order - until he picks up the dice. The dice govern his every decision and each throw takes him further into a world of risk, discovery and freedom.
Posted by billyfisher1977 (1 year ago ) I would have read it it but I kept rolling a one.
Cheers,
Mark
Posted by Avocatore (1 year ago ) Just bloody brilliant. You'll never look at Freud with the same respect again.
Blood, sweat, rumpy-pumpy and a fair amount of ridiculousness. The post-RD Laing anti-analyst stuff is of its day, but that doesn't make it any less relevent in the current climate of: here's a pill now tell us your problem medication.
Posted by DavidK (1 year ago ) A life-changing book, perhaps now slightly dated, based on the premise that you make a list of options - some of them way outside your normal parameters - and act on them according to the throw of a dice. Rhinehart builds a convincing scenario of thirty-something New York middle-class boredom, with the hero facing a complex array of dice-induced changes.
Posted by tcook@abctales.com (1 year ago ) And now there is the final part - but I wouldn't bother with it. Stick to the wonderful, crazy original.
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