The Dice Man
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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- Funny book recommendation: "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart.
- If you're really convinced that there's a "true" version of yourself, you should read the 70s cult classic "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart. While not exactly earth-shattering prose, and while also following a general plot arc of increasingly graphic and violent sexuality, in the right setting it can be a deep reminder that there is not a single version of you. You make choices, sometimes arbitrary, sometimes circumstantial, sometimes due to other people, and those choices can illuminate entirely different aspects of who you are.
- 5 books not on this list that might expand your.mind:
* The Dice Man by George Cockroft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man?wprov=sfla1
* The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda.
* Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/624
* Poverty and Progress by Henry George
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308
* The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
- Yeah that and The Dice Man are the two big ones that stand out to me.
I heard of them both years back from everything2: https://everything2.com/title/Books+that+will+induce+a+mindf...
- For a literal take on the role of luck in life, read “The Dice Man”.
- The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen
