The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart



FEW NOVELS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE THIS ONE WILL!

LET THE DICE DECIDE! If that dice has a 'one' face up, I thought, I'm going downstairs to rape Arlene. 'If it's a one, I'll rape Arlene' kept blinking on and off in my mind like a huge neon light and my terror increased. But when I thought if it's not a one 'I'll go to bed, the terror evaporated and excitement swept over me: a one means rape, the other numbers mean, bed, the die is cast. Who am I to question the dice? So Luke Rhinehart, novelist, autobiographer and bored psychiatrist, makes his first dice decision. Rape accomplished, he begins to live the dice life in earnest. With every move he makes determined by a throw of the dice, he rampages from one outrage to the next, from uninhibited promiscuity to murder . . .

THE DICE MAN is vastly entertaining-unashamedly sexy, painfully funny and terrifying by turns. It is also the most subversive and revolutionary novel of the decade.
'TOUCHING, INGENIOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY COMIC' ANTHONY BURGESS

'BRILLIANT . . . VERY IMPRESSIVE' COLIN WILSON

'HILARIOUS AND WELL-WRITTEN . . . SEX ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE AN OPTION' TIME OUT

Dicing with life is what the protagonist of this nicely mocking novel does. Here's how diceman-ship works. Luke Rhinehart is a successful but bored New York psychiatrist who - in a moment of utter ennui - dreams up the ploy. For instance, you're coming to the fag end of a tedious evening - so, do you throw in the towel and take yourself off to bed? Or do you go one floor down and rape sexy Arlene? You let the roll of a dice decide for you. (As it came up for Rhinehart he went down one floor and raped sexy Arlene.) From there on everything goes in this dice-rolling fantastic novel.

'I find The Dice Man very funny indeed and sometimes almost terrifying in its accurate evocation of the amount of nonsense American psychoanalysts talk and believe in!' Professor H. J. Eysenck

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To A. J. M. Without any of whom, no Book.

In the beginning was Chance, and Chance was with God and Chance was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Chance and without him not anything made that was made. In Chance was life and the life was the light of men.

There was a man sent by Chance, whose name was Luke. The sere came for a witness, to bear witness of Whim, that all men through him might believe. He was not Chance, but was sent to bear witness of Chance. That was the true Accident, that randomizes every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of Chance, even to them that believe accidentally, they which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of men, but of Chance. And Chance was made flesh (and we beheld his glory, the glory ...

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