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    <body><![CDATA[Glorious, just glorious!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting shorter novel. A lot shorter than the last two Rabbit novels, for example (not then written). It has some slight autobiogaphical interest, I think. On page 59, the step-son of the first person narrator says to him, 'Your mother knows the names of everything.' He is referring t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35675470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The poet Wallace Stevens has a line that says &quot;man is<br/>part both in the inch and in the mile&quot; and this is<br/>man, woman and child seen in the inch, in a small<br/>spot on earth and in only about 24 hours, but <br/>seen in full.  They come to life as soon as you meet<br/>them, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38314611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Updike novel. I forget where I had come across this recommendation. So...successful city man and his new wife and step son visit his childhood farm where his kinda-dying widowed mother still lives. I say &quot;kinda-dying&quot; because it's implied that she's on the way out, though ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72049837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last view years of his considerable writing life, it sometimes seemed that John Updike was almost writing parodies of himself, but this slender, early novel, shows why Updike, when he was on his game, was as fine an American writer of the 20th century.  If you've never read him, start here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In everything I've read by John Updike, I've admired the poetic phrasing of his prose. Of the Farm is no exception, although in this case it took a little longer for me to be drawn into the story. With a book so short, that's a little dangerous.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the charaters' situation is familiar, the truth is that almost nothing about these characters is appealing.  It's one thing thing to have flawed but interesting characters; it's quite another to have flawed characters that the reader doesn't want to read about.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Updike writes humans as they are - idealistic, conflicted, selfish, heroic, sentimental - all in the same day.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;a small masterpiece&quot; per the NYT. yeah.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tiny English-language sections at bookstores in random Eastern European cities have weird selections of obscure classics, like this, Of the Farm, about a guy bringing his new wife home to meet his controlling mother. Brief but engaging fiction, though Updike's way of viewing women as bodies or mommi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7460800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it and waxed poetic over the writing, descriptions, feelings of farm-raised city-dweller returning to the farm.  My mom read it and said the main character needed to get grow up, the farm isn't that romantic and sex isn't all there is to life.  ?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quiet, pastoral, a little dull. It has a line (I'd quote it but I don't have the book in front of me) about a screen door that I remember as being rather amazing. A small novel of the sort that Updike gave up writing years ago.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of a depressing little book.  John Updike...well, let's just say I'd rather read Steinbeck.  Much rather.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book I'd read by Updike. I liked it but I didn't love it. It was slow going.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was just OK. It didn't compare to Updike's Rabbit novels.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Updike, but I'll call it good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of an extension of the characters from &quot;The Centaur&quot;]]></body>
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