The Dice Man
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Average rating3.8
In the beginning was Chance, and Chance was with God and Chance was God .... There was a man sent by Chance, whose name was Luke .... And Chance was made flesh ... and he dwelt among us, full of chaos, and falsehood and whim. -- from The Book of the Die
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1 primary book3 released booksDice Man
Dice Man is a 3-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1971 with contributions by Luke Rhinehart.
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I am honestly pretty ashamed with how much I actually enjoyed this book.
Like I enjoyed and appriciated the way this was written. The conspet was so intresting.
I just wished there was maybe not as much focus on the rape, sex, and violent stuff
Reading this at the encouragement of a classmate, I can say I was not disappointed as The Dice Man certainly lived up to his review as random. The book starts out normally enough and progresses through a fantastic story in a fairly normal way. Sure, the main character goes on a number of rather shocking escapades, but the ultimate end of the book was expected.
The central ‘theory' of the book is that the personality should be destroyed. It's an interesting concept, but The Dice Man proves that destroyed personalities turn out to be just as mundane as intact personalities.
The narrative is engaging and, at times, quite humorous. Many passages, though, are sarcastic to the point of being snarky. Though possibly for effect, to show the general foolishness of established society as a whole, it comes off as overly cynical.
