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The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

“Few novels can change your life.  This one will.”

Bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart lives with his wife and two children in their apartment in Manhattan.  Dissatisfied with both Western and Eastern philosophies’ alternate embrace of the meaningful and the meaningless, Luke is forever changed when he finds religion through a simple roll of the dice.  Rhinehart and his patients soon find that the only path to salvation is in letting the dice decide.  Rolling his way through sex, drugs and therapy, Luke spreads his new religion with a hilarious combination of evangelical fervor and moral depravity, turning his life –– and the world –– on its head.  Once you hand your life over to the dice, anything can happen.

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This reminds me of a much more extreme version of my decision-making process sophomore year of college, during which I decided all yes or no quandaries by flipping a coin… lasted about a week.

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