Live your life by the dice

Currently in the middle of reading the dice man by Luke Rhinehart.

I've been meaning to read this book for sometime now. It was recommended to me around 3 years ago by my friend Lee, and he told me it was "one freaky book"!

So on Monday, whilst browsing in Whsmiths, I noticed that if you brought a copy of The Times newspaper, you could also buy this book for 99p. So I snapped it up straight away. (I love a bargain).

By the way, The Times does this every week in Whsmiths, so keep your eyes open ok?

So whats it all about then?

Well, its about a psychatrist called Luke Rhinehart, who, bored with life and his daily routine decides to live his life by the dice. Every action he takes is decided by the roll of the dice. For example, in deciding what his behaviour patterns would be like in the next month, he would make a list of six options and whatever number the die would come up with, he would go along with its decision.

The book was written in the 1960's, and its kind of strange to be reminded about the "commie's" and other such remainders of the state of politics in that era.

I'm only halfway through the book, and to be honest, I'm finding it very interesting. Some of the issues raised by Luke, regarding the rules that society dictates or our behaviour patterns are very though provoking.

Instead of conforming himself to what society expects from him, he breaks out and does the complete opposite - for example, he tells his patient that he is Jesus Christ, because the die told him to spread love for a month!

I'll have finshed reading the book in a couple of days, so I'll be able to talk about the ending in more depth.