Log 24: Principles Before Personalities |
Chess seemed to be the game on everyone's minds at the end of 2020 the Year of the Rat , thanks to the popularity of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'.
I wrote about watching the series in this recent post -
The ABSOLUT Proof Is Out There?Pop Culture Happy Hour? |
Born in 1948, the Year of the Rat?-) |
Born in 1996, the Year of the Rat?-) |
A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism.
I mainly watched 'The Queen's Gambit' because it was made from a Walter Tevis novel and starred Anya Taylor-Joy from Josh Boone's movie 'The New Mutants' -
'Fault in Our Stars' and 'The New Mutants' Director Josh Boone Interviews Whitley Strieber About Whitley's New Book 'A New World'?
I was expecting something more exiting than this chess series from
the author who wrote 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' as well.Not that I have read any of his books yet, but I did see the movie a few times.
Anne McCaffrey commented, "I've read other novels extrapolating the dangers of computerization, but Mockingbird stings me, the writer, the hardest.Died in 1984, the Year of the Rat?-) |
the author who wrote 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' as well.
The notion, the possibility, that people might indeed lose the ability, and worse, the desire to read, is made acutely probable."
When a new edition was published in 1999, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Pat Holt stated that, "The book often feels like a combination 1984 and Brave New World, with a dash of the movie Escape from New York thrown in."
Reviewing the 1999 edition, James Sallis declared that "Mockingbird collapses the whole of mankind's perverse, self-destructive, indomitable history, cruelty and kindness alike, into its black-humor narrative of a robot's death wish."
I prefer playing checkers to chess, so I have to wonder if Beth could beat Mr. Burt at his own game?-)When a new edition was published in 1999, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Pat Holt stated that, "The book often feels like a combination 1984 and Brave New World, with a dash of the movie Escape from New York thrown in."
Reviewing the 1999 edition, James Sallis declared that "Mockingbird collapses the whole of mankind's perverse, self-destructive, indomitable history, cruelty and kindness alike, into its black-humor narrative of a robot's death wish."
Burt Reynolds as Mr. Burt in The X-Files episode 'Improbable' |
Born in 1936, the Year of the Rat?-) |
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