So you couldn't stand John Updike's work? You found it unbearably overrated? Ben Shapiro seconds that emotion.
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And now for something completely different (on John Updike)
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a grad school class in which we were forced to read all the rabbit books (except "rabbit at rest," which wasnt yet written, thank god) put me on the path of disliking updike forever. although i continued to love greene and baldwin, who we also had to read.
in spite of that – and his annoying statement that he identified w/his character's sense of marginalization in "terrorist," -- he did seem like a very decent man.
Posted by: eileen | January 29, 2009 at 03:34 PM
John Updike's passing is sad news indeed... he possessed a truly beautiful mind; he didn't just write well, he wrote wisely
Posted by: coffee | January 30, 2009 at 03:50 AM
The article linked was pretty tedious to read in itself actually. Which is funny. A tedious article about how he thought Updike was tedious.
Posted by: patrick | January 30, 2009 at 04:02 PM