Have any of you homosexuals read even the first book? I have to assume not, it's amazing and I rarely see it discussed. The second is a reactionary masterpiece as well.
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Many of us have read it, and it is discussed with some regularity on here. FWIW the part of the first novel where Rabbit goes back to his to his wife determined to lead a good life and gradually falls back into his old ways is one of the best written things I have seen in the English language.
the part where it switches to Janice's pov took my breath away, to be fair I have a young daughter as well.
the sex scenes are usually kind of pathetic, there's like one that is actually erotic in 1500 pages
At one point I had planned on reading Updike's work, but when I read fiction, I mostly like to read books with a lot going on. Do these books have entertaining action?
They have a lot of middle-class sex if that gets you going.
Books about the bourgeoisie somehow never have just an average, realistic amount of sex in them. The characters are either completely dysfunctional sexually or addicted to it and doing it constantly, the latter usually also doing it like that due to some other type of emotional and mental malformation.
You get a bit of both to balance it out. The fricker's name is Rabbit, temper your expectations around that and go along for the ride. I read it at 14 and was bored by it because I was gay.
>addicted to it and doing it constantly, the latter usually also doing it like that due to some other type of emotional and mental malformation.
Describes the character of Rabbit Angstrom to a T.
>t.
From Baudelaire and Proust virtuoso flaneurs to insipid suburban sexual peccadilloes and day to day, Updike is a lightening rod for persons of inferior mind and commensurately defective prosody.
>Books about the bourgeoisie somehow never have just an average, realistic amount of sex in them.
An average, realistic amount of sex isn't very interesting to read about. That would just be pornography.
That's 4 novels, actually.
Updike considered them as one and preferred them to be released that way after they were completed.
They were released with far too much time between them to be considered a single work. There is also a fifth novel never included in such compilations for artistic or commercial merits, which debunks the idea of them being one work.
Take your meds. These rules about what can and can't be one work are all in your own mind.
It's my all time favorite book, OP. And the other three are pretty damn good too.
What did you think of Rabbit At Rest? I think I was half expecting another huge event happening at the end but it was still a moving scene, contrasted with the first scene in the first book.
>The second is a reactionary masterpiece
how do you mean?
It is a scathing picture of the 60s and it's effects on the white American everyman and his society
its self-inflicted effects*
*israeli inflicted*
But yes, the white American's abdication, his distraction and humiliation. Rabbit gets off too easy, if anything.
Why do many white americans have no sense of accountability? They're like women: it's always someone else's fault, never their own. Pure narcissism.
There can be nefarious outside forces parasitically destroying your society and at the same time there being a lack of responsibility and/or awareness to defend it. Why is there no blame placed on the parasite?
What's up dyke?
>Have any of you homosexuals read even the first book?
nuIQfy can't into literary fiction