I just started Updike's Rabbit series - Democratic Underground

Taverner

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Fri May-25-07 04:05 PM
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I just started Updike's Rabbit series

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.

Decent books, decent antihero. I'll never look at anal sex with a teacher the same way again.

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Zomby Woof

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Fri May-25-07 09:45 PM
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2. Great series

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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