'This book will change your life' asserted the cover when I picked up a well-used copy in 1974. It was right. Rhinehart's abdication of responsibility to the roll of the die encouraged me to take a broader look at the available options when I had to make decisions in my own life. The immorality of taking an overtly amoral stance is intriguing: Rhinehart chooses always to include an 'undesirable' option but then shrugs off any culpability for his crimes if the dice 'told' him to do them. Ultimately, I learned that we cannot escape responsibility for our actions whatever we may say. ( )

I read this while working (slaving) in a pathetic financial services office in London, early 1990s. A major life-changing novel that helped me quit pointless servitude and find my own suffocated soul and liberate it into meaningful suffering... ( )

This is an excellent book. I sought it out deliberately as I was aware of the brilliant premise of removing some of the determinism from decisions. As a concept, I enjoyed the book tremendously. If you are looking for a critique or witty satirical caracature of the US healthcare system, or a psychoanalytical statement of the importance of the self then this may not necessarily be what you're looking for. Dice Man is deeply provocative and scores a direct hit in the attempt to entertain by taking the reader on a ride around a re-engineered reality and challenging their own assumptions and decisions.

The book is not without limitations, the plot doesn't quite hold together in places and this is actually tacitly acknowledged by the author. The characters are at times a little simplistic but these quibbles did not matter in the slightest for me. The book appeals to the part of me that absolutely loves Fight Club and thoroughly enjoyed Death Race 2000. If you make this book a serious and literal study then I doubt that it'll be for you but with a little suspension of disbelief about the plot dynamics, it's an outstanding read.

There are some scenes that may make some readers uncomfortable and I'd not recommend it for those of a sensitive disposition. Those with an appreciation for alternative lifestyles may however find some of the ideas inspiring. ( )

This books tells the story of a psychiatrist who becomes bored of his life....and decides to leave it to chance.

Chance takes the form of dice which he puts events to and whatever the number that lands he enacts the choice linked to it.

From leaving his family to starting the dice "cult" to trying a gay experience nothing is his choice no longer. No one can blame him for the choices he makes......it is down to the dice. It is the luck of the roll.

Until his luck runs out and after an interview on TV where he does not say a word he disappears or runs the risk of being taken in by the FBI.

A good book at times it also has its places where it is hard work to read. But worth it in the end and probably enough there to try to the sequel....if only to see how it all ends.

Does it make you feel like living by the dice yourself though............... ( )

The account of psychologist who opts out of society by leaving more and more decisions to chance. Half a story of spiralling insanity and half a diatribe against the suffocating, destructive nature of society, you can't help but be amused by Rinehart's very sexy, very witty anecdotes. ( )