[EveningStar]

GMTA.

I had just posted this and was getting ready to ping you.

I asked the admin to delete my thread. :)

[EveningStar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike

[ClearCase_guy]

I tried to read his stuff. Never could.

But RIP anyway.

[RinaseaofDs]

A prominent apologist for abortion.

[RichInOC]

Rabbit is dead.

[snarks_when_bored]

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76

Rabbit's run is done.

[EveningStar]

Boston Globe article

[pallis]

“The Centaur” Is the only Updike book I enjoyed enough to get from cover to cover.

[Mad Dawg]

in the postwar prime of the American empire

Does anybody else find that kind of language irritating?

[oblomov]

I greatly enjoyed The Poorhouse Fair, Pigeon Feathers (short stories published in New Yorker), and The Centaur. I tried to read some of his later novels, but they lacked the energy of his earlier works. It was almost as if they were by another, very different writer. The author of his earlier works was evidently a man in search of moral absolutes and ideals in a confused world, while the author of the later works seemed to have made peace with the confusion and venality.

Perhaps his greatest contribution to literature, and what he may be most remembered for many years hence, is his book reviews, which were always interesting and perceptive.

RIP, Mr. Updike.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.