Walter Tevis Rules

[Park Sung Jetson]

I like to read. It's been a life-long hobby of mine. And so I'm going to recommend a writer I have 'discovered' in the past 2 or 3 years. 

Walter Tevis wrote a number of novels that were adapted to film. You may have heard of a few. They include: 

The Hustler
The Color of Money
The Man Who Fell to Earth

He also wrote The Queen's Gambit, which I believe Netflix turned into a film, or possibly a miniseries. 

I'm reading The Queen's Gambit now. (Knowing Netflix, I will guarantee they turned the novel into some kind of Weirdo Lezbo Degeneracy Fest, and I do not recommend watching it. At least, not before you've read the novel first). The novel's quite good. It concerns a young orphan girl, Beth Harmon, and chess. If that sounds dull to you it is just a testament to Tevis' skill as a writer. 

I recommend it highly.  

Tevis also wrote Mockingbird in 1980. This was the novel by which I became aware of him and his books. Mockingbird is set in a dystopian future in which Spofforth, the android dean of NYU, oversees the campus in a world in which the last remaining humans have forgotten how to read.

Like all good sci fi, it analyzes our actual civilization and posits questions about meaning and humanity in the here and now.

Walter Tevis, friends. Check him out.

[Jack Woodd]

I used to be a huge reader back when I was a kid. I was very ugly, so nobody invited me to parties. Plus television was awful back then. Charlie's Angels. The Love Boat. Etc. The only thing left was literature.

[Park Sung Jetson]

While I tend to wax nostalgic for my childhoos in the 70s, Three's Company and Mork and Mindy were too indescribably awful for mere words to convey.