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title: "The Queen's Gambit Kindle Edition"
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# The Queen's Gambit Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Better Than The Miniseries
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2021*

Of course I came to *Queen's Gambit* the novel after watching the Netflix miniseries, which I really enjoyed, but what really made me read the book was an article by Sarah Miller in The New Yorker in which she really praises it as her "platonic ideal of a novel" (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient is said to re-read it "for the pure pleasure and skill of it.") To my surprise, I found in QG a formidable book that quietly but decidedly seized me the same way a chess grandmaster would besiege the king from her opponent. And it did so not with pomp and circumstance or bold stylistic outbursts but because of its carefully crafted frugality and simplicity. That came to me almost as an irony, because I had then just finished a sequence of books by Ian McEwan (Atonement, Nutshell, and then Amsterdam) and there couldn't have been a greater contrast than McEwan's nearly self-indulgent digressive style (however enjoyable it may be) and Tevis's frugal, self-controlled and self-contained moderation. Still, Tevis's simple, sharp and sometimes short sentences carry great power I've learned to admire, and that is maybe what Miller and Ondaatje were talking about. I was really surprised by how the novel was copy-pasted almost word by word to the screen. There is very little 'adaptation' as much as sheer 'transcription'. The great dialogs of the novel are reproduced verbatim in the miniseries, which speaks a lot about how good Tevis's text is. But I agree with those who believe something is lost in this translation. For one, Sarah Miller in The New Yorker says Anya Taylor-Joy is just too pretty to play ugly-duckling Beth Harmon, and that simple fact almost subliminally leads to her being portrayed as a much more self-confident character than she is in the book. That is true, but I think it is still not it.Tevis excels in something that is very subtle and silent: he has the ability to carefully control the tone of the text, especially in scenes of intense emotion, disorientation, or even tragedy. That does not mean he just moves away into a cold, distant narration (Camus' The Stranger) or that he purposefully ignores the tension and waters the text down, because the tension is still there all the time (and the last chapters with the games with Luchenko and Borgov are like magnets, I couldn't stop reading them), but it comes pure, almost primitive, certainly non-judgmental (which contrasts with Tevis's advocating, almost preaching style in the previously written sci-fi Mockingbird.) Here, Tevis lets us enter Beth's mind and think with her with no prejudice. We move with her and witness her victories and failures just as if objectively watching her move the pieces in her chess board. Someone has said that Tevis in The Hustler is like Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon. The way Tevis deals with Beth's problems with liquor, strangely enough, made me think of Hemingway's describing (in a underplayed, almost tender way) the misfortunes of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea.And that is exactly where I think the miniseries misses the point. The few changes made in the screen adaptation were all towards 'raising the tone', making it more intense and sentimental (sometimes even corny), or alternatively to provoke awe or shock. There is none of that in the book. And those minor changes end up making a big difference in how we even judge Beth's gift as a chess player.A friend of mine commented that the miniseries does not make it crystal clear whether Beth is a truly talented chess player or can only play well because of the hallucinations she gets by ingesting large amounts of green pills. Maybe the intention was to add more drama to Beth's chemical dependence, but that is not really the case in the novel (there, it is clear that Beth wants to remain 'clean' because that worsens her performance, which seems to come as a very personal, autobiographical trace of Tevis's himself.) But the important point is: she is an extraordinary chess player, period.This is quite important, because by putting her chess talent into question, the miniseries tones down Beth's own command as a character. Indeed, although Beth is more fragile and less confident in the book than in the miniseries, she has way much more control over her own destiny in the novel (she does get help from friends but that help comes in subtly different ways): when deciding to learn more about chess, when dealing with and escaping her addictions, even at her final game with Borgov. The simple fact that in the book people don't drop in front of Beth's house out of the blue (which annoyingly happens all the time in the miniseries) is in itself full of meaning. All that makes QG, the novel written in 1983, a much sharper and more radical statement about the power of women than QG, the miniseries produced 37 years later, which makes Tevis's work even more relevant and remarkable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Absolutely loved this!
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023*

Having never played  chess, you wouldn't think I would have even liked this story. But with all the monumental obstacles she faced in her life, Beth is amazing at not only recognizing her own pitfalls and shortcomings, but facing and overcoming them with much courage, unexpected wisdom and a beautifully depicted strength.Having watched the series several times and read the book twice, I feel so very proud of this amazing young woman!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Loved the show so I had to get the book
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2023*

I fell in love with the show and wanted to know if the book was as great and it's even better

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