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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Odd. Read this as a pallet cleanser and ended up feeling very tense when reading. Some parts are controversial as the book is so old but I liked the pacing of it and it was very very well written.
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Alcohol
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming
Minor: Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism
3.5?? the literature of gambling syllabus is INSANE. but i also could not tell you why i liked this book this much. the sense of place of the gambling hall is something i want to write about, the anxiety—specifically the bodily sensation side of anxiety?? specifically the SUDs-level stuff, the twist in your gut—is something i want to write about, the color green is something i want to write about. but beyond the wealth of potential essay topics, there was something else. i read it in two days, and i wanted to keep reading, even though there were so many things i hated about it.
i don't know anything about pool. i didn't like any of the characters. it stressed me out to the point where i found myself skipping past pages (the way you close your eyes during an embarrassing scene in a movie) only to have to remind myself, NO, WAIT, YOURE READING THIS TO ANALYZE IT FOR A COLLEGE CLASS, PLEASE ACTUALLY READ IT, it was misogynist in that 50s-literature way, where you start to find it funny after a point. and yet, this book might be my favorite one we've read for this class so far.
i don't know anything about pool. i didn't like any of the characters. it stressed me out to the point where i found myself skipping past pages (the way you close your eyes during an embarrassing scene in a movie) only to have to remind myself, NO, WAIT, YOURE READING THIS TO ANALYZE IT FOR A COLLEGE CLASS, PLEASE ACTUALLY READ IT, it was misogynist in that 50s-literature way, where you start to find it funny after a point. and yet, this book might be my favorite one we've read for this class so far.
Walter Tevis was not a writer on my radar until I watched “The Queen’s Gambit”. Although I had a fake DVD of the movie “The Hustler” based on Tevis’s first novel. I bought the DVD in China circa 2003. I’m not sure I watched it right through at the time. I was fascinated by Jackie Gleason’s face but didn’t have patience for the rest of it. I was off pool at the time having played so much at the university gym and bars and never getting good at it. Watching this film a few weeks ago I was very impressed with the cast of Paul Newman, Gleason, Piper Laurie and George Scott. I then read the novel which was a good too. Tevis has a clear, straightforward style, something that's not easy to achieve. However, the movie is more gripping, Tevis’s book loses focus about three-quarters through . “The Color of Money”, is a sequel to “The Hustler” written and filmed over twenty years later. Paul Newman returns as the pool shark Fast Eddie, Tom Cruise is his young protege and Maria Mastrantonio the street smart girlfriend. It’s a much weaker movie than “The Hustler”. What happened to filmmaking in the 80s? It had deteriorated from the golden era of the 60s and 70s — but was still better than today.
medium-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No