Thoughts on Updike?

>>9371460

Whats Updike?

>>9371559
About one fifty

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>>9371559
>This much hate
>current year

Don't know why but I tried to dislike the Rabbit books but lo, I read them all. Redux is perhaps the masterpiece-- theyre all solid. As are the majority of his short stories. He was an exceptional writer.

>>9373026
Never been able to get through more than 20 pages or so of the first Rabbit, got to retry sometime soon, some of his short stories are that top-shelf, oak leather stuff.
Maybe has something to do with him having a drawing guy in him. Lots of emphasis on visual things in his writing, kind of relied on it bc he did it so well, hard to take so much input for long periods of time, it's pretty exhausting.

One of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century. His problem was always that he was too high-brow for the mainstream crowd and too mainstream for the highbrow crowd. But if you can appreciate him for what he is, you'll be impressed.

However, avoid his last 5 novels by any means. He wrote them when he was hopelessly senile, and it shows.

>>9371460
What's up, dyke?