Rabbit en paix
by John Updike
Rabbit en paix
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When I say that this is the best of John Updike's "Rabbit" series of 4 books, I have only finished this book & the first book "Rabbit Run". I started reading Rabbit Redux, & was completely turned off by the characters. The same thing happened in Rabbit is Rich. How could a writer as good as Updike write about such trashy people living such trashy lives? Perhaps it was the times, the "Anything goes 60's & '70's & the "ME generation 1980's." ...more
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Read in January, 2008
Updike's Rabbit series ends - suprisingly - softly. Despite a tumultuous 60 years full of controversial life decisions by the main character Rabbit, Updike decides, perhaps NOT suprisingly (since Updike himself was in his own later years when writing this book), that things should wind down gracefully. Updike did an amazing job in this series making plot and theme connections between books, and here in his waning days, Rabbit's character comes full-circle, with echoes of Book 1, Rabbit Run, an...more
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Ok, I’m done with the series. I’ve seen this a few other times as well, but it never fails to “shock and awe” me when a writer takes an ordinary life and turns it into good literature. In this case, it’s more than just good literature. This series is pretty darn outstanding and incomparable to anything else that I’ve read on “American life.” I have to say that my most favorite was Rabbit Redux, which was the most bizarre one.
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so i slogged my way all the way through the rabbit series. my honest opinion about this masterwork of literature??? it drug on a little. updike no doubt was keenly able to capture the penultimate masculine life, but i actually have a little more faith in the man of mankind. i don't think most of us are nearly as reprehensible as rabbit. in any event, i really dug updike's writing style throughout the novels. i found it really difficult to make it through the middle volumes...but i have to say......more
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
someone not in a rush...
a good book by an author with a fairly unique voice.
i have only read this, the last of four books in the rabbit series by updike. he captures what would be an uneventful and otherwise normal life of the aging everyman in america from an insiders point of view.
not necessarily a happy read or uplifting, but read slowly it delivers some lessons worth exploring.
updike describes his characters and their thoughts with language usually reserved for lush landscapes. read with patience, the...more
i have only read this, the last of four books in the rabbit series by updike. he captures what would be an uneventful and otherwise normal life of the aging everyman in america from an insiders point of view.
not necessarily a happy read or uplifting, but read slowly it delivers some lessons worth exploring.
updike describes his characters and their thoughts with language usually reserved for lush landscapes. read with patience, the...more
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recommends it for:
mature readers
Another mostly negative book in the series, although here Rabbit and Updike seem to make some peace with the inevitable emptiness of life and relationships. There's a lot here about the inherent distance between people, even people in supposedly the most intimate relationships. Despite that distance, though, the book also bittersweetly presents some surprising and fleeting moments of human connection. By the end, you even feel as though some of those fleeting moments may have amounted to some...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
people who have read the others, of course
I WANT RABBIT AFTERLIFE BOOKS DAMMIT
Reading Updike always makes me want to write novels. The way his description can make even the most trivial things seem fascinating makes me walk around with an overly detailed interior monologue for a few days. After going through four long books with him, I'm really going to miss Rabbit, even though he was a bastard.
Reading Updike always makes me want to write novels. The way his description can make even the most trivial things seem fascinating makes me walk around with an overly detailed interior monologue for a few days. After going through four long books with him, I'm really going to miss Rabbit, even though he was a bastard.
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Read in November, 2007
I decided to read all of the Rabbit books after hearing a podcast in which Richard Ford's trilogy was compared to Updike's series. While I would say that I prefer Ford, I must admit that I liked them. Given my rather negative impression of most of Updike's essays, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Read in January, 1997
A series that, for me, did not reflect the times or the author's growth the way others seem to think. YMMV. I'll take the Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane's Depressed, trilogy over this one. Rabbit should have stopped a book or two ago.
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As a collective whole, the Rabbit novels (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest) are the most brilliant books I have ever read. Any attempt to explain why would be inadequate; just read them.
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Read in July, 2007
Chilling, brilliant ending to the Rabbit series. Updike's ability to humanize this character is heroic. You look back on Rabbit's life and see little. But if the last scene doesn't deeply affect you you need to get your pulse checked.
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
all people
John Updike's Rabbit series is so well-written it blows my mind. Start with Rabbit, Run and read them all. Now. But, don't expect them to put you in a good mood or anything.
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Liked it a lot. What page is that blurb on Frank Sinatra, on? I love it when he listens to the old-time radio Gogie Grant etc... This was good !
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Read in December, 2007
See my review of "Rabbit is Rich". A life and death without any meaning other than the transient enjoyment of the material world.
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Read in August, 2007
tied for first place in this series with rabbit run. i was so sad to see rabbit go. i had grown fond of the old man!
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Read in January, 2003
I think the intended reader may be the middle aged man, but it's definitely an interesting book :-)
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This copy sat in my bathroom for two years, the amount of time it took me to complete.
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Read in January, 1996
To learn early in life not to get bitter so that you are ready for old age.
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Read in January, 2008
The man can write, but I hated the book. Another lame Pulitzer (1991).
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Read in January, 1986
John Updike excels in the small details, so intricately described.
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