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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.'
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Luke Rhinehart is the internationally acclaimed author of The Dice Man and six other books. The Dice Man, cited by a BBC production as one of the fifty most influential books of the last half-century, was honored by Loaded Magazine in 1999 as the 'Novel of the Century.' It has been an international best seller for thirty years and is selling more copies now than ever. In the last few years three documentaries have been shot about Luke or people influenced by the book, three stage plays based loosely on Luke's work have toured the U.K., and the six-part TV series Dice will be aired later this year. His other books include:WHIM, a comic novel about a Magical teenager sent to earth by the Lord Chance on a quest for U.T.--ultimate truth.WHITE WIND, BLACK RIDER, a dramatic and moving story of three samurai and their conflicting and deadly loves for the beautiful Matari.THE BOOK OF THE DIE, a collection of essays, parables, proverbs, film scenes and stories that dramatize his unique ideas; and And LONG VOYAGE BACK, an extraordinary story of people fleeing by sailboat from a nuclear holocaust.Visit Luke at www.lukerhinehart.net.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wisdom should be witty. Wit should have wisdom. This book has buckets of both. Redirect your teenage years now before it's too late! And God knows the world needs plenty more wit and wisdom if we're not going to go the way of the dodo.
Non spoiler plot synopsis? Well, it's about a teenager, his pal and the girl he has his eye on. And his determination to find out what life's all about and discover old u.t. (ultimate truth). The progress of the plot is interspersed with varous brief quotations from different documents written after he has passed on and only his legend remains.
One of those books you never forget.
Non spoiler plot synopsis? Well, it's about a teenager, his pal and the girl he has his eye on. And his determination to find out what life's all about and discover old u.t. (ultimate truth). The progress of the plot is interspersed with varous brief quotations from different documents written after he has passed on and only his legend remains.
One of those books you never forget.
Format:Paperback
A bit like Roald Dahl for grown ups, at the end of the book you wonder what was the point of all that. Rather like in the Dice Man, George Cockcroft starts with an interesting idea but gets lost with it somewhere after the first 100 pages, and it deteriorates into self-indulgent fantasy.
8 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is my favourite book of all time...
Read it when i was about 17...on the train going to teach guitar in brighton (the arrogance of youth...noone told me i didnt' know enough to teach it at 17. i was 30 before i realised that!)
I couldnt' find it for years, and the copy i managed to get from here is even better, cos it looks like a real amatuer affair.
the book....what can i say. I never managed the dice man, or any other of rhienhardts dice books. tried, but found them trite.
something about the philosophy in this book just rang for me...or maybe just the accurate description of teenage priarpism. maybe i recognised it, being 17 when i read it?
trying to write this makes me realise...you can't review this book (well, not when your pissed at 1:30 in the morning). its just great. you have to suspend your disbelief, and accept that lying is a useful skill...
buy it and have fun
TG
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