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"The Queen's Gambit," a discussion ***Possible Spoilers***

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cmr107:
I'm Courtney, and I'm a Heathen, but like Katherine, I have way too much I should be reading right now. I intend to read it as soon as I have time, which will hopefully be Spring Break.  :-\

Penthesilea:
Oh, how nice, additionally to the HHH thread we now have a HA thread  ;D


I'm Chrissi and I am a Heathen.  I've started reading the book and am roughly one third through it. Will finish within a week. Looking forward to the discussions  :).

Mikaela:
Hi, I'm Mikaela and I'm a Heathen. *sniff* No surprise there!

I finished the book yesterday and I had lots of thoughts after having finished it.

As for structure, I think I'd just like to wade in ASAP while the memories are as fresh as possible, but perhaps we could tackle the content and characters first, especially the character of Beth -  then after that what must have especially resonated with Heath, ...and then the more movie-related issues: I.e. How do you adapt into a film something where so much of the action is people sitting over chess boards making moves...

Anyway, though I liked the book a lot it didn't make me a whit more interested in chess! (I'm not even good at Sudoku.) Reading lots and lots of books about previous chess games would be my idea of pure, boring, horrible hell.  ;D All the more kudos to the author who manged to make this resonate with humanity and so relevant and interesting despite the chess-based action.
It is a good reminder how the human brain is wired and how intensely focused we can become about that which catches our interest and imagination and fires our physical and/or mental strengths into full "on" mode -  be it chess or marathon or discussing Brokeback Mountain.  :)


**Slaps self on wrist**

Yes, I will shut up now!

Mikaela:
No, after pondering a bit I think I want to say that what I'm most interested in discussing first is Beth. Her character, her development, her personality, her strengths and weaknesses, what specific influences make her the person she is and becomes, how does she interact with others.

She's a fascinating person, so much packed into one person's frame, I've got loads to say on it and as I said elsewhere I do find her strangely relevant to what we know (or sense) about Heath, and about many extremely talented artists in various fields.

MaineWriter:
I certainly think that Beth is worthy of plenty of discussion.

Walter Tevis is also the author of The Hustler and The Color of Money--books that I haven't read but I've seen both movies and they are good. They are about pool. I wonder if those books are similar to this--taking a "sport" that on the surface seems sort of boring and turn it into a terrific read? Interesting.

He also wrote The Man Who Fell to Earth. Wasn't that made into a movie with David Bowie? (working from memory here....)

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