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The Color of Money

By: Walter Tevis
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
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Twenty years after he conquered the underground pool circuit in The Hustler, "Fast" Eddie Felson is playing exhibition matches with former rival Minnesota Fats in shopping malls. With one failed marriage and years of running a pool hall behind him, Eddie is now ready to regain the skills needed to compete in a world of pool that has changed dramatically since he left. The real challenge comes when Eddie realizes that in order to compete with a new wave of young players, he must hone his skills in the unfamiliar game of nine-ball as opposed to the straight pool that had once won him fame. With a new generation of competitors, a higher-profile series of matches, and a waning confidence in his own abilities, "Fast" Eddie faces new challenges with unpredictable outcomes.

The Color of Money is the source of the 1986 film starring Paul Newman in the role he had originated in The Hustler.

©1984, 2014 Walter Tevis (P)2019 Tantor Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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It's grittier, and more surprising than the film. But equally more depressing. And the narrator's voice doesn't help since it's quite low energy. Only for hardcore Fast Eddie fans

The difference in tone between this story and the movie

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I enjoyed this even more than The Hustler audio book. It's fantastically descriptive and the story holds you 'till the end.

"On the snap..."

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This sequel to The Hustler lacks some of the grit and tension of its predecessor but Tevis's writing is as beautiful as ever. Not sure what book Martin Scorsese read before he made his movie, wasn't this one, completely different story.

Fast Eddie returns

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This is the sequel to the Hustler by the same author; initial scenes were a little unsure but the subsequent plot was magnetic and consistent.
Tevis writes with a tension and unpretentiousness that is reflected in his characters.
One warms to a maturing “Fast Eddie”; his approach and views on American values and society; that despite the “hustle,” in contrast to other professions, there is an unquestionable honesty in the raw skill of the pool player with nowhere to hide under the smoky lights at 2 in the morning!
The narration of the male voices were good but Arabella’s was relatively weak,though didn’t tarnish the experience.

Hard to put down !

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The first book was better but I did enjoy the story of what happens to fast Eddie and what he did next.

Good

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