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1902245 No.1902245 [Reply] [Original]

So what does /lit/ think of Updike?

>> No.1902249

I've not read him, but I don't like the sort of dick-waving male-oriented style he represents, so I don't care to.

>> No.1902255

It's not that he can't write but I don't really care to read it

>> No.1902259

Only read Rabbit, Run, thought it was mediocre. I may have judged him too quickly though (DUN DUN DUNN!). I think most modern Americans and people in general these days have forgotten him.

>> No.1902264

>>1902245

bahahahahha that picture is amazing

>> No.1902275

>I think most modern Americans and people in general these days have forgotten him.

What the

Go to your room

>> No.1902276
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1902276

I think he looks like my old track coach.
pic related

>> No.1902361

he looks like rachel maddow's gramma

>> No.1902370

Rabbit, Run and The Centaur are both pretty good. He has a nice style but that's about it really.

>> No.1902387

I've read the Rabbit series, it was pretty good. Lots of quality prose, like an Americanized Nabokov (less cerebral, less aural, more visual). He doesn't take many chances though, the only thing that will ever surprise anyone in his books are the images. Just middle-class realist state-of-the-country sort of stuff.

>>1902249

You read that one essay by DFW didn't you

>> No.1902410

>>1902387
i suppose that this being lit it is likely that he's just a dfw fanboy but i definitely heard that criticism from my mom before i read any fukkin david fruitstand walrus- which is interesting (to me and likely nobody else) because i've never known her to be much of a reader of all but she's familiar with/opinionated re: a lot of stuff that came out in her teens and twenties. dunno whether this is a case of books being more of a popular Thing in ye olden days or my mom giving less of a fuck about books when she had a couple of bedwetters to wrangle, probably both I guess

>> No.1902414

>>1902387

>You read that one essay by DFW didn't you

Guilty. I'm still not going to read him.

>> No.1902423

>>1902276

love child of lovecraft and a secretly gay republican senator

>> No.1902439

I started reading run rabbit run, but I hated the main character so stopped.

My loss, I guess. Thinking back, it was quite good. i remember a lot of it which doesn't always happen with novels

>> No.1902460

I've only read a couple of poems and short stories, but it's obvious he can write very well. I keep meaning to pick up Rabbit, Run...or maybe The Witches of Eastwick (I like the film)

>> No.1902471

I prefer the works of James Downfag.

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>>1902471
I see what you did there.

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http://internetpokerdot.blogspot.com/

>> No.1902502

What's updike?

>> No.1902510

A&P is overrated and dull.

>> No.1902549

>>1902502

Not much. What's goinonfaggot?

>> No.1902552

>>1902510

For you, sure. I personally love every word of it.

>> No.1902878

anyone recommend some of his lesser known works?

>> No.1902889

I read Roger's Version and I enjoyed the theme a lot, the prose is quite good too.