Taverner
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Fri May-25-07 04:05 PM
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I just started Updike's Rabbit series |
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Reading Run Rabbit Run right now
What did you think?
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Lance_Boyle
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Fri May-25-07 04:20 PM
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1. Read those in high school. |
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Decent books, decent antihero. I'll never look at anal sex with a teacher the same way again.
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Fri May-25-07 09:45 PM
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I first read "Rabbit, Run" in 11th grade, when our English teacher gave us a list to choose from, and that was one I was always curious about.
My favorite of the four is "Rabbit Redux", the second one. It had parts which hit me like a punch to the gut. It captured much of the zeitgeist of 1969 perfectly, something at which he excels.
No one did suburban middle-class angst better than Updike. With an obvious nod to predecessor Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt", the Rabbit novels are among the finest literature of the latter 20th century.
Enjoy!
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