I was just wondering if anyone else has ever read this great book.

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

I picked it up years and years ago when the Times newspaper was doing a book for a £1 with every paper purchased. I absolutely loved it and to this day re-read it all the time. I never knew of anyone else who had heard of it though unless I introduced them to it.

I have the book but haven't got around to reading it yet.

just ordered 

Ordered on my recommendation 

I lent my copy to a mate years ago and then he to the phillipines and I never got it back!!! I did consider writing out a "12 ways to punish the bloody thief" list and seeing what happened but he is a really good mate
 
Amazing book though it really is, but avoid the sequel "search or the Diceman" it's a massive disapointment.
 
Also - I'm amazed it's never been made into a film.....

The sequel was tame compared to The Dice Man.

I found this on a dusty bookshelf at home when I was a child and couldn't understand much of it - I read it a few years back and thought it was amazing. One of my favourites - it did have me daydreaming about leading a 'dice life' for a while...

[/:)] Time to re-read it methinks.

A friend of mine actually used the principles from this book for a social experiment in uni. I took part and i gotta be honest reading the book is alot more fun that actually trying to live by the rules of the Dice

Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

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Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

I had two options in the initial session. 1-3 with a single dice i would be happy. 4-6 i would be angry. I rolled a 5 and had nothing to be angry about and thus i resorted to opening old arguements for a period of 1hour. Bear in mind i couldn't just sit at home being annoyed i had to be angry at or with someone.

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Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

That's not the point though, the idea of the dice life is that you have options that you would never usually consider, like commiting a murder or rape or to go out and have gay sex!

Batlocust

Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

I seem to remember that there are three principles of living by the dice:
 
1. You must be prepared to undertake all of the options.
2. Once selected, start the option without question.
3. Think macro, not micro. In other words - think big and be daring.
 
I never actually finished the book as I found it rather dull but the idea of leaving all of life's big decisions to chance is intriguing.

I got a friend to read it, he loved it, then spent a night out shifting his personality for 10 minute stints using 6 options. He did it really well. No one cottoned on at all. It was hilarious! Poor guy got a Jesus-esque personality 3 times in a row.

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Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

That's not the point though, the idea of the dice life is that you have options that you would never usually consider, like commiting a murder or rape or to go out and have gay sex!

 
Thats very far into the Dice Life itself. It starts with simple options as ecplained about if he would spend time with his children or talk to his wife that day ect....

Bit of a headfuck of a book, I thought. An awful lot of it was kinda just psychobabble, to me anyway, so perhaps some of the finer points were lost on me.

Atrox Cruentus

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Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

That's not the point though, the idea of the dice life is that you have options that you would never usually consider, like commiting a murder or rape or to go out and have gay sex!

 
Thats very far into the Dice Life itself. It starts with simple options as ecplained about if he would spend time with his children or talk to his wife that day ect....

Not really, rape is pretty much the first act that "the dice" compell Rhinehart to do.....

Red Stripe

Bit of a headfuck of a book, I thought. An awful lot of it was kinda just psychobabble, to me anyway, so perhaps some of the finer points were lost on me.

It's supposed to be exactly that though, psychobabble...
 
it's anti-psychiatry and psychoanalysis so a lot of it is there for satirical purposes.

borrowed it from a friend at the end of last summer. A fantastic book, very clever. Love how it's done as if it was real as well! I was also thinking it would make a cool film, very hard to do though.

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Atrox Cruentus

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xXxJeNxXx

Surely if you made each option feasible & carry through with it - it can be enjoyable.

That's not the point though, the idea of the dice life is that you have options that you would never usually consider, like commiting a murder or rape or to go out and have gay sex!

 
Thats very far into the Dice Life itself. It starts with simple options as ecplained about if he would spend time with his children or talk to his wife that day ect....

Not really, rape is pretty much the first act that "the dice" compell Rhinehart to do.....

Not really. He does use the word but it was by mutual consent. Thus giving the impression it was something each craved for a while so the options were really "To act upon the urges or not to"

I pose one little question about the book being read or not and a small debate sparks. THAT'S how good the book is