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5670832 No.5670832 [Reply] [Original]

I recently purchased the last three novels of John Updike's Rabbit series, save for Rabbit Remembered, and because of monetary restraints I cannot get Rabbit, Run any time soon.

I was wondering if it would be terrible to start reading one of the other three first?

I know Rabbit Is Rich & Rabbit At Rest won Pulitzer Prizes. How meaningless would these be without the first of the series?

If I'm told that it would be egregious to read anything but Rabbit, Run first, I will just read Giles Goat-Boy instead.

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5670909

In Rabbit, Run, I liked writing in the present tense. You can move between minds, between thoughts and objects and events with a curious ease not available to the past tense. I don't know if it is clear to the reader as it is to the person writing, but there are kinds of poetry, kinds of music you can strike off in the present tense

>> No.5672615

>>5670832
dude go to the library

>> No.5672700

>>5672615
I've no ID

>> No.5672807

>>5672700

why not?

how the hell do people try to become serious readers without a library card if they are not rich? I don't even understand. Without a library card I'd be spending at least $50 a week on books

>> No.5672911

why did you buy the last 3 lol

i definitely think you should read the first one first. i don't think you'll die if you read the second one first but you are meant to have a connection to the characters already.

>> No.5673107 [DELETED] 

>>5672911
thank you

>> No.5673112

>>5672807
>$50 a week
no.

>> No.5673161

>>5672807
how many books do you read a week

50$ is like 25 books if you're good at finding deals

>> No.5673218

>>5672700
go to the dmv and get one. or I think you can have your parent be there and get the library card for you if you wanna suffer some embarrassment. Some libraries even let you fill out info online and send it to you.

>> No.5673364

>>5673161

I read 3 books a week. I live in a relatively small city that has only two used book stores and they're both expensive as fuck. I work in a book store and even with my 35% discount it'd probably still be around $50 a week

>> No.5673370

>>5673161

anyway I don't see the purpose of spending more than $0 a week when there is literally no need to at all