The Dice Man (1970s a)

by Luke Rhinehart

The rules are down to you. The rules that stop you seducing your neighbour downstairs, that stop you hitting your boss, that stop you leaving your family and leaving the country. The rules that stop you living.

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. As the cult of the dice grows around him the old order fades: chance becomes his religion, the dice his god.

If you haven't lived the life of the dice, you haven't lived at all. Let the dice decide. And roll with it.

• ISBN10: 0246110589
• ISBN13: 9780246110589
• Publish Date: 27 July 1978 (first published 1 July 1972)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 August 1991
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 432
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

Not sure how this got to be a cult book. I enjoyed the 70s feel of the story, but couldn't get over the inherent flaw in the logic behind the idea of being liberated by assigning decisions to the roll of a dice. By inherent flaw, I mean that by both assigning a choice of action to the dice or by choosing to roll the dice in the first place, the choice is made by man not dice.