Luke Rhinehart Books In Order

The Dice Man

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, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.

Adventures of Wim

WHIM One of the great comic novels of the decade, WHIM is pure delight, a book with a smile built into just about every line. Peter Tennant, reviewing all Luke’s books in The Third Alternative. WHIM tells the story of a very Magical Indian 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 encounters between Whim and his Montauk mentor Grain of Sand; Narsufin, the great black Sufi sage famous for his hook shot; and the Abominable Snowman Sage of the Himalayas. In the end Whim finds his u.t., saves the Montauk nation, and wins the heart and all other bodily parts of his beloved Dawn. English reviewers had strong praise: ‘One of my favorite reads of the year,’ ‘Ingenious, hilarious,’ ‘Anarchic, hip, subversive and comic.’

The Search for the Dice Man

This musical celebration of freedom reminds us of the liberty we have as Americans, and encourages us to continue the legacy of freedom. Songs include: America America The Beautiful Fifty States In Rhyme Interlude I Interlude II Interlude III Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier Liberty Opener Liberty Reprise Liberty Finale My Country Tis Of Thee Patriot’s Song Medley Pledge Of Allegiance Salute To The Armed Forces The Greatest And Best Medley The Star Spangled Banner When Johnny Comes Marching Home.

Matari

WHITE WIND, BLACK RIDEROboko finds Matari like a blur of darkness lying in the snow of a blizzard. After he carries her lifeless body into an ancient abandoned temple he is astonished when she opens her eyes. What had seemed a frozen lump of silk is transformed into a beautiful woman. Matari says softly, ‘I didn’t die.’Thus begins the most dramatic and moving of Luke Rhinehart’s books. He has woven an exciting story of three samurai and the beautiful woman they each love, trapped by their very virtues into deadly conflict. Oboko is the poet of the wind, a peace loving student of Zen; Izzi, the lusty, life loving court poet on his way to serve the great Lord Arishi, a proud samurai who has vowed to kill Matari, who he believes has been unfaithful. When Lord Arishi’s samurai pursue them, Oboko, Izzi and Matari each must choose, with each of their lives in the balance.’A strange jewel of a book; it casts lights and shadows although it is as simply written as a child’s poem’…
Kilburn Times.’A powerful, exciting yarn’…
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The Book of Est

The greatest self help book of all time, according to Dr. Joe Vitale. The Book of Est immerses you in the closed doors of the controversial est trainings popularized in the 1970’s.

Long Voyage Back

A taut thriller about a small group of friends escaping a nuclear holocaust.

The Book of the Die

With his cult classic The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart offered the world a provocative antidote to dilemmas of choice and modern ennui: dice living making life changing decisions on a roll of the dice. Now, with his fiction inspiring devotees of the die around the world, Rhinehart has written The Book of the Die a bible and manual for the dice life. Rhinehart asks: If you’re bored, why not roll the dice and whether it’s a change of locale, wardrobe or career be liberated by chance?

The Book of the Die is both an invaluable companion for anyone who has ever thought about letting chance call the shots and a more than just amusing read for those who are curious. As he muses wryly on a life of dicing, Rhinehart turns conventional notions of modern living on their head with remarkable comic eloquence, moving swiftly through parables, parodies and dialogues that keep the book as unpredictable as a tumble of the dice. Challenging, clever and always startling, The Book of the Die includes practical instructions for dice living, daring readers to shake up their lives and take chances they never would have imagined. Is this the ultimate risk? Or is it a practical way to deal with the staggering life decisions we all face?

‘A blackly comic amuseme*nt park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trios through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting funhouse mirrors of the mind.’ Time

‘A fine piece of fiction…
touching, ingenious and beautifully comic.’ Anthony Burgess

Naked Before the World

Set in the late’60s, Naked Before the World is a comic romp celebrating the follies of bothhippies and the establishment. The novel follows the innocent Katya as shebegins her first year abroad studying art at the Lowdong Institute on the island of Mallorca. The mountain village ispopulated by artists and freaks and frauds and Katya finds it hard to tellwhich is which. The hippy Franz seems to be everything her Catholic collegewarned her against, but he seems much more honest and appealing than anyoneelse. With many of the men and a couple of the women coming on to her, Katyastruggles to determine who she should trust and what sort of a person she wantsto be and creates all sorts of hilarious mayhem. When the famous Spanishartist Piccolo Londo asks her to help him paint his next masterpiece he andhis assistant always working nude she hesitates, but everyone assures her thatit is a ‘great opportunity.’ Only at the end of the novel doesKatya come to know who she wants to be and stand, at last, naked before theworld and before most of the village. Much of the novel was written at thesame time as Luke’s great classic novel THE DICE MAN and has the same crazyhumor and outrageous comedy.

Jesus Invades George: An Alternative History

JESUS INVADES GEORGE is a grand satirical vision that employs the same comic voice as The Dice Man to answer the simple question: What would have happened if George Bush had awakened one morning in early 2007 and found he’d become possessed by Jesus? The answer is plenty. When Jesus forces George to start talking about withdrawing all American forces from the Middle East, the men who have made George desperately begin plotting to stop him. In this hilarious history you will also learn: Why Karl believed that his Policy of Eternal War would mean Republican governments ’til death do us part. How George, in Sadr City with only a single body guard, survived many assassination attempts, only to be nearly done in by a pizza. What happened when Jesus and George made love to Laura. How George, in the Holy Land, almost walked on water. What happened when Laura hired the world’s foremost exorcist to rid George of the Terrible Spirit possessing him. How Hillary and Barack suddenly found they were to the right of George on just about every issue and didn’t know how to deal with it. And finally, what happened when Dick and Don rallied the establishment to save the nation from the Christian terrorist George. And how the 2008 election turned out and the world lived happily ever after. Or not. LUKE RHINEHART has published three other books with Authorhouse: WHIM, WHITE WIND, BLACK RIDER, and NAKED BEFORE THE WORLD. All are available from either www. authorhouse. com or www. authorhouse. co. uk.