bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) (04/25/85)
From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) <5271@tekecs.UUCP> > I recommend the triology highly. While you don't have to read the > triology in order (I didn't), I would suggest that you do, as the later > books tie in with events that occured earlier. Updike has done a rather > interesting thing, writing these novels in real time as his characters also > develop. > > I would be interesting to hear other thoughts from people who have read this > triology. What do you think? I read the Rabbit trilogy (in order) a while ago. I thought "Rabbit, Run" and "Rabbit Redux" were great (Updike is a wonderful writer most of the time), but I didn't care for "Rabbit is Rich" that much. The main character, Rabbit Angstrom, was always a self-centered egotistical jerk, but as a young man he could get away with it and I could sometimes sympathize with him. As a middle-aged man, he was more self-centered and more of a jerk. He never grew up; he just got older. I couldn't sympathize with him at all. I think Updike should have quit when he was ahead. -- Bob Kaplan "Just because I'm handsome doesn't mean I'm not intelligent."