Was John Updike a Great Writer?

plebeian realist garbage trash asshole shit.

>>8318806
Simpleton detected

>>8318802
Does he have Zika?

>>8318806
>realist
>garbage

are you exited for the new game of thrones? its hella epic!

>>8319281
regardless of game of thrones realism is pretty garbage if you ask me sam

>that nose
More like John Upkike.

Ya, don't like him though.

He was a good writer, but his style was pretty much conventional, unimpressive, and his ideas were pretty easily circumscribed (infidelity, midlife crisis, etc.)

Updike is an example why genre fiction isn't a bad thing, when non-genre fiction tends to invoke the stale reality of life as we already know it.

He wasn't poetic enough to carry any great merit IMO, just a solid creative writer that wouldn't challenge the assumptions of the establishment American reader base.

>>8319291
kek, I was about to post that

>>8319291
He is from the town of Shillington, Pennsylvania

literally wrote white noise before Dellilo was even relevant

>>8319599
Damn, what a stupid post