dull, duller, dullest
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I got this book for Christmas but only got round to reading it recently. I'm about nine tenths of the way through now and, for a while now, it has truthfully read like some kind of bizarre pornography. By about half way through I was already thinking "yeah, ok mate, I get you - you're having a nervous breakdown. The picture has been painted wonderfully. Can we move on now please?" But it gets to that point and just sort of stalls. I keep picking it up to see if anything interesting is going to happen but, as yet, to no avail. I hate not finishing a book, so I probably will eventually, but it is just getting more and more about bizarre sex acts and less about anything relevant/interesting/intriguing, let alone resembling a coherent story line. It may well be a cult classic, but I've got to say that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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Roll
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I loved this book, definately one of my top 5 books of all time, I got a lot out of this and would read it again anytime.
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How depressing
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The book is well written and deals with an interesting concept so it engaged me immediately. But the more I read, the more disturbed the main character gets and his actions become more and more bizarre and then quite disturbing and nonsensical. I stopped half way through but then for 'research' I browsed through the remaining chapters but his behaviour got progressively more depressing. ugh. horrible book. Its interesting that some people really like it! funny old world!
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A fascinating exploration of the extremes of human behaviour
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This book is a masterpiece of underground literature and a complete moral minefield for the reader. Much like Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, it takes your ideas of what is moral, good and right and turns them on their head.
This book is written as if it were a factual explanation of a real person's desire to change their life by using different outcomes and actions predicated on the roll of a simple dice. The book follows those outcomes to some extremes of behaviour and charts the changes that ensue. I won't give too much away as half the delight (and the horror) is watching the action unfold with none of the usual bars to reality and/or literature that one usually comes across.
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the dice man
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this is a very sexually explicit book.
wether that's a positive or negative thing i'll leave for you to decide.
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