Which of the Rabbit books by John Updike do you like best?

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Option	Votes
Rabbit,run	2
Rabbit is rich	2
Rabbit redux	0
Rabbit at rest	0

― Zeno, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

Testr!

― Michael Servetus, Friday, 23 February 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

X - None of the above.

I can't seem to get excited about a poll feature for I Love Books, since the only subjects that lend themselves to polls are those in which there are no shades of subtlety or mixed feelings. In this forum, at least, wouldn't possession of sufficient literacy to express these shades or mixtures be encouraged at every turn? Are we not courageous enough to make the attempt? Have we no desire to show our love of rhetorical questions? I rest my stave.

― Aimless, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

I LIKE BOOKS WITH RABBITS. ID LIKE TO READ THE ONE WHERE THE RABBIT IS RICH. I DONT THINKED I LIKE TO READ A BOOK WITH A RABBIT JUST RESTING. BUT IF IT WAS JUST RESTING A LITTLE WHILE IN BETWEEN GETTING RICH IT WOULD BE OK I GUESS. I DONT LIKE THE NAME UPDIKE AS MUCH AS THE NAME UPDUKE. IF THERE WAS A BOOK ABOUT A RICH RABBIT NAMED UPDUKE. I WOULD READ THAT BOOK UNLESS IT WAS ABOUT A SAD RICH RABBIT WITH A ENGLISH ACCENT. I WOULD PUT THAT BOOK BACK ON THE SHELF AND FIND ANOTHER BOOK TO READ. BUT IF I ALREADY PAYED FOR IT. ID GIVED IT TO FRED FOR HIS BIRTHDAY.

― TIM@KFC.EDU, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I think all of the books are the best I've read. Probably the 2nd and 3rd are the best though. It pays off to read the later books because you already know most of the characters pretty well. The fourth book is a bit difficult as it's about Rabbit being ill and I'm queasy reading about the detail of his heart problems.

― RedRaymaker, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 09:09 (sixteen years ago)

There's a fifth book too, Rabbit Remembered, which is quite sweet. It's just a novella though, and I think comes as part of a volume of short stories rather than stand-alone - though I do not know which volume.

I don't know which one i'd've voted for, they're like one single epic tale to me. Maybe the Skeeter bits would swing it for me, just because they produced the most intense, squirming reaction - not entirely pleasantly. I liked Nelson most around that time too.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

my rank is this:

rich
at rest
run
redux

it seems Ian McEwan is right:generally, Updoke wrote them better with the expereince of time and years of writing .

in any way - i think Updike is the best of the realistic writers in the u.s. for the last 50 years,the most authentic for sure.

― Zeno, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

A few days ago, I was driving around a parking lot enframed by big-box stores in a generic suburb, in a beat-up Volvo in a downpour, and I felt like I was in Rabbit at Rest.

― (nutty nuggets at HEB) (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 01:16 (sixteen years ago)

According to wikipedia there's a film of Rabbit, Run, with James Caan as Rabbit (Janice Angstrom is supposedly in it too, presumably as herself). Anybody seen it? I'd never heard of it. It doesn't seem like a very cinematic book.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 12:32 (sixteen years ago)

tim otm

― Bobby Wo (max), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 12:36 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, he did say all that needed saying. The poll never really recovered from that. Even system gave up.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

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