R.I.P. John Updike

[Linflas]

🙁

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76
I still remember reading "Rabbit Run" when I was a senior in high school.

 

[MotF Bane]

 

[nineball9]

Missed the news of his passing - thanks for the info Linflas. I too enjoyed Rabbit Run and a few short stories he wrote with Harry Rabbit Angstrom again as the protagonist.

 

[Zim Hosein]

R. I. P. John Updike! 🙁

 

[eplebnista]

🙁

 

[BW86]

 

[Perknose]

I love good literature, and I certainly don't dislike John Updike at all, but I personally don't "get" his place in the pantheon of tier one novelists.

I actually have a higher opinion of some of his poetry than I do of his novels.

But . . . NOT trying to dump on the guy. Godspeed, John!

 

[Perknose]

Almost forgot, but the guy was a GREAT writer of literary criticism.

 

[EvilYoda]

I will never forget how graphic his description was in the book of having sex with a fat woman.