Reddit reviews The Master of Go

On the basis of Indian Creek Chronicles, I'd say there's a good chance you'd get a great deal out of The Outermost House, one of the classics of modern American naturalist non-fiction. The premise if very simple -- the author, Henry Beston, spent a year living in virtual solitude on the easternmost house on the American coast, keeping notes on what he observed. The result is a brief, zen-like meditation on nature's movement through a single place over a single cycle of the seasons. Highly influential.

Since it looks like you're interested in the cultural conflict between modernity and tradition, I'd suggest The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, which follows the treatment of a young Hmong girl whose immigrant parents struggle with the California health care system in dealing with her undiagnosed seizures.

Great to see John McPhee on your list -- hands down one of my favorite non-fiction writers. Just about anything he's written will be compulsively informative and shift the way you think about his chosen topic. Levels of the Game is a brilliant depiction of a single game between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, that delves into the way in which personal biography informs how an athlete plays and ultimately contributes to the meaning of the game.

Along similar lines, Yusanari Kawabata's The Master of Go deals with damn near close to all of the themes at heart in the books listed above, and will likely teach you a little about the ancient game of Go, if you have any interest in that. An idiosyncratic pick, perhaps, but it's one of my favorite novels.

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If you are looking for actual good movies based off a game there is The Go Master. It is a semi-historical account of Go Seigen, who was one of the leading players responsible for the "shin fuseki" which was a big advancement on the opening theory of go.

If you want to read a novelized version of the same story there is the "Master of Go" by Yasunari Kawabata It won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature and really encapsulates a lot of Japanese and Chinese culture at the time.

If you are just looking for campy goodness there was "Witchboard" and "The Oracle" both loosely based off of the whole Ouija/fortune telling games. Neither of those were really good but fun to riff on.

I would like to see a movie based on something like Core Worlds or even Star Realms. They are both self contained enough that they can keep the plot going. I think the new Core Worlds with the addition of more interesting heroes could really turn it out into at least a decent movie.

From an Amazon review:

"If you don't know the game of `go', played with white and black stones on a board, or if you are not at all familiar with Japanese culture, then this book is probably not a good place to begin."

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