# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - October 2025 edition

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-books-manga, books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [October 3, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2025-edition/1023626 "2025-10-03T01:53:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2025-edition/1023626/77 "2025-10-28T14:34:35Z")

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> [@Railer13](#):
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> Just checked out _Queen’s Gambit_ by Walter Tevis. Hope i enjoy it as much as i liked the series.

Finished it. Absolutely loved the book, probably more than I enjoyed the series.

Just for grins, I re-read the Dope thread on the series. And I came across this insightful post by @Elendil_s_Heir, which did a wonderful job of pointing out the differences between the book and the series:

> [@Queen's Gambit on Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-gambit-on-netflix/924900/165):
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> Just finished the book, and I enjoyed it, as I suspect anyone who liked the show would. The show is faithful to the book in its broad outlines, but there are some relatively significant differences. In addition to the NSFW point noted above,

Thank you for this summary!

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