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The cult classic that can still change your life!

Luke Rhinehart is a pseudonym and the plot of the book is, apparently, inspired by true events. Highly recommended as a treatise on determinism, responsibility, morality and redemption. Why not five stars? It's a bit long and the ending proves ... well, you'll find out. It certainly is life changing as it makes you question everything. One quick thought: you'll either totally love the idea or utterly fail to connect. Give yourself to page 50; if you're hooked, the dice have got you ...

Empirical science is based on experiments and statistics. What would happen if we not only used statistics for the sake of scientific arguements but actually decided to live our lives that way? What the protagonist does is to design his life as a series of scientific experiments. Where he goes a bit off track, of course, is in the choices he designs for action, but with a more moderate application this looks very interesting indeed. I think there is something very interesting and very useful here...

I bought this book for our Book Club. There are five of us who meet once a month. I could not get past page 200 and that was a waste of time. It certainly gave us quite a debate. We all thought the author was on LSD (it was written in the 70's) We all had the same thoughts on the book. Could not recommend it.

Why are some people saying this book is boring? This book is full of lies, deceit, drama, humour, sex and interesting psychology theories. If anyone think that's boring they need their head checked.
If you liked Fight Club, or you want something with a bit of humour, psychology and something that pushes the boundries buy this now, you wont regret it.

I`ll keep this brief as there are plenty of erudite reviews already here.

I consider this book to be one of the best, if not THE best, book , ever written. Not only is its style brilliant, compelling, addictive, and its hero (?anti-hero?) one of the most fascinating, dynamic in the history of the genre, but the premise on which it is based, if followed by the reader, is quite simply, life changing. If I throw a 1, I shall leave work and emigrate to New Zealand tomorrow, a 2 will see me give up my lifetime devotion to West Ham United and start supporting their arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur instead, a 3 and I shall trade in my 14 year old Honda Civic for a brand new moped, a four and I shall watch only ITV3 for the next year, a 5 and I shall phone every `phone in programme` on the radio and extol the virtues of a `prune only` diet, and a 6 means I shall give up my staple reading diet of the likes of Rhinehart, Childs, Grisham, Baldacci and Kurnick, and instead read only Catherine Cookson books, and Fanny and Jonny Craddock cookbooks. if all this sound totally outrageous, Luke plays out scenarios FAR WORSE AND FAR MORE FAR FETCHED.

As I`ve said, if followed to the letter, this book will be truly LIFE CHANGING - both for yourselves and the thousands of other lives your random actions will impact upon................