Just finished. Amazing read.
The overall theme of Eddie regaining his character and his love of competitive pool is the same but other than that there are few similarities.
Both are great and arrive roughly to the same conclusion but through totally different stories.
If you like the movie, hell even if you don't, you should check it out.
I have just finished reading "The Hustler". Great book. Looking forward to reading "The Color of Money".
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The Hustler the book and the movie are very similar. Like I said TCoM movie and book are two different stories yet both great.
Hope you like it.
I thought the story in the book TCOM was superior to that in the movie, and yes, completely different. They basically threw out Walter Tevis' story and kept the title of the book.
shareI just finished reading it yesterday. Didn't expect it to be so different. In my eyes the book is much better because it's all about Eddie. Plus it has Fats in it too who is still excellent. I wonder why they completely ignored the book apart from a few quotable lines? It's not like they needed star power for the film because Newman was massive in his own right, so who knows why Vince was invented. Jackie Gleason was still alive as well so they could've easily gone with the original plot.
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