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The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
2.0

this is by far one of the most overrated books ive ever read. i have no idea where all these rave reviews come from but i see its appeal to boring white millenials. its incredibly bland, insanely anticlimactic, and the writing is lacklustre. the only black character is written incredibly poorly, and the way addiction is written and talked about in this novel is pathetic and unrealistic. why did they make this into a netflix series when they could just put the x files back on there.