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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.… (more)
DNF - 50 pages in and I had to give it up. Hilarious bragging about sexual assault, deeply unpleasant main character, seems to have been written for shock factor only. How it became a "cult classic" is anyone's guess - unless we are talking a cult that removes the heads off innocent children for a laugh. ( )
Enjoyed the story, raunchy in parts. Following the self-destruction of his world or will it be the destruction of ours as we know it? A cop out for people not to take responsibility. ( )
The case of six sided man! If that dice has a 'one' face up, I'm going downstairs to rape Arlene. if it's not a 'one' I'll go to bed. Let the dice decide, who am I to question the dice? It's the story of a man that became a dice man. He starts consulting with the dice for everything, every single decision. He sacrificed all of his life to dice will. So he became a random man. A man without pattern, without habit, without self, without ego. totally unpredictable. It's an unbelievable, amazing , unmoral and sexy story of the diceman. He tried everything, rape, murder, robbery, spirituality, womanizing, being gay even being a woman.
Warning: This book will change your life if you follow it! Warning: Your new life won't acceptable by society's standard. ( )
Un romanzo sovversivo e scandaloso, pregno dello spirito degli anni 60 con la scoperta della psicanalisi e la liberazione dell’erotismo - e non scevro da un certo maschilismo e razzismo. Affidare la propria vita ai dadi: cosa più di questo può distruggere la nostra stessa personalità? Lettura monumentale, sguaiata, estremamente divertente. Un classico nascosto, con molti estimatori (fra cui Emmanuel Carrère, che qualche anno fa è andato in cerca dello scrittore che si è nascosto dietro allo pseudonimo di Luke Rhinehart, ovvero George Cockcroft). ( )
I am a large man, with big butcher's hands, great oak thighs, rock-jawed head, and massive, thick-lens glasses.
Preface
In the beginning was Chance, and Chance was with God and Chance was God.
Quotations
Information from the Swedish Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.
1. I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face an accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticsim; in psychology neurosis. The assumption is that a limited and bored self is the unavoidable, all embracing norm.
2. Love, one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.
3. Success and failure mean simply the satisfaction and frustration of desire.
Angående tanken om att människan måste lära sig trivas med att växla mellan olika roller. Vi vuxna vill att barn ska handla efter konsvekventa mönster. Till exempel, "Vår lille Johnny basjar alltid på morgonen efter frukosten." "Billy älskar att läsa hela tiden." "Är inte Joan gullig, hon låter alltid andra vinna hela tiden."
Johnny hade inte alltid lust att skita efter frukosten men visste att hans mamma gillade det. Billy längtade efter att gå ut och plaska i vattenpölarna med de andra pojkarna, men... Joan ville bita av sin brors penis varenda gång han vann men...
Men om man belönade barn för växlande beteendemönster, för inkonsekvens. Hur skulle det gå?
"Min Johnny är underbar. Förra året fick han nästan bara bra betyg, men i år nästan bara dåliga. Vi är så stolta." "Våga inte borsta tänderna ikväll igen, det börjar bli en vana." "Larry att du inte skäms. Du har inte bråkat med en enda småunge i kvarteret på hela sommaren." "Jag har ingen lust, mamma." "Du kunde åtminstonde försöka. "
Lärare skulle säga, "Dina teckningar har en tendens att likna det du ritar av, unge man. Du tycks inte kunna släppa loss." "Den här uppsatsen är alldeles för logisk och väl uppbyggd. Om du tänker bli författare måste du lära dig att frångå ämnet och inte hålla dig till saken hela tiden."
Livet är faktiskt inte konsekvent. "Ibland blir jag arg när du spiller, men ibland struntar jag i det." "Ibland tycker jag om när du är uppstudsig, men ibland skulle jag kunna slå in skallen på dig när du är det."
Last words
Information from the Swedish Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.
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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Luke Reinhart 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. As the cult of the dice grows around him the old order fades: chance becomes his religion, the dice his god.
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