Luke Rhinehart
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"One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC)
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,...
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Larry Rhinehart is the son of the renegade psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart, who introduced the world to dice-living and dice therapy, where decisions are made not by the self but by the roll of a die. Since his father deserted him when he was still a child, Larry has bitterly rejected everything his father stood for. He has embraced order and control. Now a wealthy Wall Street analyst, he is about to marry the boss's daughter, and become a good deal wealthier....
3) Whim
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WHIM tells the story of a very magical Native American boy who finds that he has been sent to earth by his Father Lord Chance to discover the Big U. T. (ultimate truth). As a high school football star just discovering sex, Whim is distracted from his quest by being in love with the brainy, sexy but very moral Dawn, and also by his rival Billy Best, who wants to discover u. t. so he can market it and make a bundle. The novel is filled with Zen-like...
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Der 32-jährige Psychoanalytiker Luke Rhinehart ist von seinem Leben gelangweilt, das ihm wie die endlose Variation des immer gleichen Themas erscheint. Da entdeckt er eines Tages den Würfler in sich. Als er nach einem Pokerabend aufräumt, sieht er, dass ein Würfel unter einer Karte liegt. Und plötzlich kommt ihm der Gedanke, seine Nachbarin (und Frau seines Kollegen) zu vergewaltigen, falls der Würfel eine 1 zeigt. Die Chancen stehen 1:5. Das...
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WHEN THE BOMBS CAME, ONLY THE LUCKY ESCAPED. IN THEHORROR THAT FOLLOWED, ONLY THE STRONG WOULD SURVIVE. The voyage of the trimaran Vagabond began as a pleasure cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. Then came the War Alert…the unholy glow on the horizon…the terrifying reports of nuclear destruction. In the days that followed, it became clear just how much chaos was still to come. For Captain Neil Loken and his passengers, their shipmates were now the only...