This "Diceman" book....

[Rod Paradise]

... I even managed to grind my way though Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,....

Your a better man than me,i found this book painfully self indulgent/pretentious and managed about half before giving up.Diceman is a bit rambling but there was an interesting South Bank documentary about George 'Luke Rhinehart' Cockroft who explained his thinking behind the 'Dice life' and how he actually lived it for a while which made the book clearer.

It was the only book I had that I hadn't read - I'd even read the girlie books she'd taken with her . VERY self-indulgient and pretentios - but some interesting stuff in it too. Still better than the Diceman IMHO.

[dealerFROMhell]

Everyone told me to read "Amarillo Slim In A World Full Of fat People". I read it, and decided he was the single most annoying person I had ever read about in my entire life, living, dead or fictional.

"I've got more guns than grandbabies" .. What on EARTH are you talking about man?

And the way he showers praise on Benny Binion when he told him "I've never killed a man that didn't deserve it".

I guess you dont get to where he is (or was, considering his dodgy conviction) without being a shameless self-promoter. The book just proves to me that we're worlds away from America in some of our sensibilities.