“Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution.” —London Sunday Telegraph.  London's Time Out called THE DICE MAN “The most fashionable novel of the early 1970s”, and in 1995 a BBC production named it “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century.”

Luke Rhinehart is the acclaimed author of eight works of fiction:
The Dice Man, Whim, White Wind, Black Rider (formerly Matari), Search for the Dice Man, Long Voyage Back, The Book of the Die, Naked Before the World: A Lovely Pornographic Love Story, and the just published Jesus Invades George: An Alternative History. In addition, after having become a rare book, The Book of est has just been republished and is available at www.bookofest.com.

Luke has written ten screenplays, most based on his own novels.

Luke’s books explore self and illusion, and freedom and chance. He has dealt particularly with the ways in which modern western societies limit the spontaneity and creativity of most humans. He sees reason and seriousness as a form of mental illness, a madness that seems to be sweeping humankind towards a civilizational and ecological disaster. And makes it all seem funny as hell.

Interest in Luke’s most famous book, The Dice Man, written more than thirty years ago, has undergone a miraculous rebirth in the last several years and is now at an all-time high. The book has been published or republished in nineteen countries and is now selling more copies throughout the world than at any time before. A new American edition of THE DICE MAN was published in June of 2006.

In addition, during this period numerous media projects have focused attention on Luke and The Dice Man. In 1998 Paul Wilmshurst and Big Table Films made DICEWORLD, a major one-hour documentary about Luke, The Dice Man, and people influenced by the book. At the beginning of this century Russell Harris inspired by The Dice Man, created the Diceman Travel Show, which for several years appeared on the Travel and Discovery Channels.

In 2001 and 2002 Dice, a six-part dicing TV series for Canadian and U.K. television aired in Canada and several European countries. In 2004 the play The Dice House inspired by Luke’s novel The Dice Man and written by the brilliant young playwright Paul Lucas, had an eight-week run in London’s West End. Stage adaptations of The Dice Man itself are currently being developed in France and in Spain.

The renewed success of The Dice Man has led to Luke’s republishing his novel Matari as White Wind, Black Rider, and revising and publishing Adventures of Wim as Whim.

NEW!

The Book of est

(From the Introduction by Dr. Joe Vitale)

Here are two reasons why I love the book:

The book is the famous est experience in written form. est, or Erhard Seminar Training, was the controversial self-help movement of the 1970s and beyond. Anyone who withstood the heat of the weekends was never the same again. Lives were transformed forever.

I never got to do est. I was a skeptic and a hold out. I made fun of it when I saw all the articles about it. But I was afraid of it. I was young and in college and unsure of everything, including myself. By the time I got around to wanting to do est, it was gone and reincarnated into something called The Forum. I did the Forum and endorse it today. But it's no est.

The Book of est puts you into the room and gets you to feel the intensity. You somehow experience est. Obviously, a book isn't a drill sergeant self-help instructor yelling in your face about what isn't working in your life. But The Book of est comes close. It's easy reading. But it's still real. Oh so very real.

The second reason I love this book is because the writing is, well, hypnotic. It's riveting.

Luke Rhinehart has the gift of writing dialogue and description that puts you in the room with the characters experiencing est. In many ways, this was one of the first examples I ever found of what I eventually labeled as Hypnotic Writing. While I later wrote a book called Hypnotic Writing, it was Luke Rhinehart, who paved the way for me to know what it was when a true master was at work. For me, this is one of the best written books of all time.

The author wrote some other cult classics, too. The Dice Man is a masterpiece. But where The Dice Man is alive and well in print, The Book of est has been gone for decades.

(But) the good news for you is this: with the help of my friend Mark Ryan, the most powerful self-help book of all time is now available to you.

And all you have to do is click here (http://www.bookofest.com/) to download it or order a printed copy.

Dr. Joe Vitale

Recently Published:

		Jesus Invades George: An Alternative History Luke Rhinehart’s new novel is a grand satirical vision that employs the same comic voice as The Dice Man to address the new chaos unfolding in the world’s wars and economic collapse. Jesus Invades George answers the simple question: What wouldhave happened if George Bush had awakened one morning in 2007 and found he'd become possessed by Jesus? Click here to find out more
		Naked Before the World Naked Before the World has the same outrageous comedy as Luke’s classic novel The Dice Man, but tells the romantic (if somewhat sexy) love story between the rebellious artist Franz and the innocent Katya. Click here to find out more

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Some Square Comments on Living by the Cube

The idea of a life lived to the whim of the dice is an attractive, potentially seminal notion.

— TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The creator of diceliving has launched a psychiatric revolution.

— LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Inevitably Chance becomes a god and dice a religion. (Diceliving is) an unpleasant notion whose time has come.

— CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Diceliving is an extreme kind of creative play.

— VIRGINIAN PILOT

Dicepeople get from (dicing) a tolerably sharp sense of risk, impermanence and variety.

— NEW YORK TIMES

It is all part of a conjoint project that a number of us are engaged in to render the whole fabric of bourgeois society unworkable . . . in a total and totalizing revolutionary process."

— DAVID COOPER

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