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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels by John Updike
Rabbit, Run
An immature, once hot-shot high school athlete with a pregnant wife and 2 ½ year old decides on a whim to flee one night instead of picking up his son at his parents. This world operates as though no morality exists and selfishness rules. Degenerate characters are not sympathetic characters. When reading this book, I felt degraded to the level of the indefensible Rabbit. Perhaps this was caused by Updike’s use of the present tense or his reliance upon adjectives and adverbs ad nauseum. His characters are as shallow as hoarfrost and consequently evoke no sympathy. A hollowness pervades throughout. It does not elevate the spirit – so why should I read it? To be sympathetic to the immoral? A more engrossing read would be a book on how it happened that Updike had this and successive novels of Rabbit published. That is the great mystery.
Rabbit Redux
Gad, more of the same crap.
Can’t read anymore Updike. Horribly boring.
Rabbit, Run
An immature, once hot-shot high school athlete with a pregnant wife and 2 ½ year old decides on a whim to flee one night instead of picking up his son at his parents. This world operates as though no morality exists and selfishness rules. Degenerate characters are not sympathetic characters. When reading this book, I felt degraded to the level of the indefensible Rabbit. Perhaps this was caused by Updike’s use of the present tense or his reliance upon adjectives and adverbs ad nauseum. His characters are as shallow as hoarfrost and consequently evoke no sympathy. A hollowness pervades throughout. It does not elevate the spirit – so why should I read it? To be sympathetic to the immoral? A more engrossing read would be a book on how it happened that Updike had this and successive novels of Rabbit published. That is the great mystery.
Rabbit Redux
Gad, more of the same crap.
Can’t read anymore Updike. Horribly boring.
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