Rabbit is Dead Options

[DanPM]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...ARmzIwD95VL4FO0

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76
By HILLEL ITALIE – 11 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.

Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.

A literary writer who frequently appeared on best seller lists, the tall, hawk-nosed Updike wrote novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir "Self-Consciousness" and even a famous essay about baseball great Ted Williams.

An old-fashioned believer in hard work, he published more than 50 books in a career that started in the 1950s. Updike won virtually every literary prize, including two Pulitzers, for "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest," and two National Book Awards.

[Dr. Moose]

HELLO

POPE IS DEAD

[tarawhite]

Always loved his stuff. ONe of the few modern authors I could tolerate reading. Rabbit at Rest.

[Dook of Oil]

John Updike's Couples was meant as a shot across the bow of the well known swingers contingency in Ipswich (Tarbox) MA.

[LocalWiseMan]

John Updike's Couples was meant as a shot across the bow of the well known swingers contingency in Ipswich (Tarbox) MA.

Take that, Ipswich swingers!

[Rick O'Shea]

Defbil relax, threads about an old dude not an actual rabbit.

[FrankD]

John Updike's Couples was meant as a shot across the bow of the well known swingers contingency in Ipswich (Tarbox) MA.

ORLY?

[mhaverty]

Oh man I thought eminem was dead.

[the other dave]

I thought one of Defbil's furry friends met his demise...

[Tantra, Goddess of Flight]

This is sad. John Updike lived in my neighborhood. I'd run into him at the health food store but I never really had a conversation with him. He donated quite a large sum of money to restore the Beverly Farms library. He would go to the local bookstore(The Book Shop of Beverly Farms) and sign copies of his books so you could purchase an autographed copy.

[FrankD]

This is sad. John Updike lived in my neighborhood. I'd run into him at the health food store but I never really had a conversation with him. He donated quite a large sum of money to restore the Beverly Farms library. He would go to the local bookstore(The Book Shop of Beverly Farms) and sign copies of his books so you could purchase an autographed copy.

didn't somene (Jesse?) deliver rocks to his driveway a few summers ago?

[DanPM]

didn't somene (Jesse?) deliver rocks to his driveway a few summers ago?

crack rocks?

[LocalWiseMan]

Could anyone here recommend one of Updike's books? Rabbit Run is the one everybody raves about, but I always found his stuff sorta boring.

[dodo]

Could anyone here recommend one of Updike's books? Rabbit Run is the one everybody raves about, but I always found his stuff sorta boring.

I think his novels are kinda boring too. My favorite piece of his is this:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/h...u_article.shtml

[DanPM]

Could anyone here recommend one of Updike's books? Rabbit Run is the one everybody raves about, but I always found his stuff sorta boring.

Rabbit Run is the only one I've ever read. I actually just read it a few months ago. I really liked it but yeah he does go into great detail about everything.

[Indyrockgrl69]

I saw him once when I was out and about in Beverly. He seemed like a nice man. A friend who works in the tax dept said he paid his bills in person so he was kind of a regular on Cabot Street.

[T- RAV]

who? the dude from that 9 mile movie?

[LocalWiseMan]

Rabbit Run is the only one I've ever read. I actually just read it a few months ago. I really liked it but yeah he does go into great detail about everything.

That doesn't bother me in the least. It's just that he never really had exciting ideas or interesting characters. Bickering suburban couples. Yecch.

[Twelve Twenty]

Rabbit at rest (1990)

[Woody Goodbeat]

Oh man...I thought this thread was going to be about one of Ill'Bills bunnies.

[JodyThePig]

That doesn't bother me in the least. It's just that he never really had exciting ideas or interesting characters. Bickering suburban couples. Yecch.

Suburban mores and folkways were his primary theme. If you're especially keen on experimental fiction, Updike has little/nothing to offer you. But he was certainly the novelist-laureate of affluent postwar suburbia.

[LocalWiseMan]

Suburban mores and folkways were his primary theme. If you're especially keen on experimental fiction, Updike has little/nothing to offer you. But he was certainly the novelist-laureate of affluent postwar suburbia.

You're so dead when John Irving's alternate persona logs on.

[Dan Electro]

I think his novels are kinda boring too. My favorite piece of his is this:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/h...u_article.shtml

From that piece, which is about Ted Williams' last game with the Red Sox:

Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs—hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn't tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters.