Rabbit Redux Audiobook

" 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. "

" I am somehow determined to make it all the way through this series, though Updike had better improve his game by the next one. At this step, our ambitious Great White Male Novelist takes on race relations in America, circa 1969, with results that would be funny if they weren't so pigheaded and, well, racist. It's all especially galling because it's evident that he thinks himself quite the adept, progressive social chronicler. Still, the man can write, and I'm curious what the Reagan years will have in store for our small-minded American hero. "

" rabbit is a scumbag and updike makes middle-class ruts come alive. "

" this is a really dirty book. I can only read 5 pages at a time, and that's only if i'm not eating dinner. Rabbit Redux and eating do not go well together. maybe try reading it in bed? This is a problem because i am now slightly obsessed with rabbit angstrom and finding it hard to find appropriate times to read such a dirty book. this might be because of my puritan mindset, but whatever. "

" This novel reads more like a collection of essays about hippies and the Black movement of the 70's in dialogue format. It makes no sense that Rabbit would be hanging out with the young naive idealistic white girl and her druggie civil rights spouting black male friend. None of the book makes any sense as a story. However, it is Updike doing his usual thing of combining together pivotal or extreme concepts or characterizations of a decade or era to make a statement about the times. "

" So now I'm eyeing up the next one. Have a feeling that 10 years on Harry won't have a great relationship with his son Nelson (by far the most sympathetic character in this instalment). "

" Updike's signature poetic prose endures, but this chapter in the Rabbit series feels more pointedly uneventful than its predecessor. "

" It is a brilliant book, but it is also flawed and off-putting. It's gonna take me awhile to figure out how I feel about it. "

" good style - again, a little depressing but good insight to what happens when people don't know how to talk to one another. "

" 4.5 is the real rating--great, Rabbit, Run is better. "

" I read the first Rabbit book several years ago, and will probably wait a few years before reading the next one. It's heavy, but it's written so beautifully. Interesting to note that Updike waited 11 years before publishing the second book. "

" I was very disappointed by this follow-up to Rabbit, Run. The characters of Jill and Skeeter rang false to me and unfortunately took up a lot of real estate in the novel. I may hate all of the other characters, but they were at least real to me. "

" couldn't even finish it - it just seemed so repetitive, same themes as the first book too. I was hoping to like the whole series but I just can't get into too many Updike books. "

" freud meets the 60's during the time "

" I like how this man writes. Sets the scenes just right. Characters that act frustratingly human. An attempt to capture the real feel, maybe the soul, of America in the 20th century. "

" I liked this book a lot more than the first one. Rabbit becomes a more likable character. I'm looking forward to reading the next one knowing it won the pulitzer. "

" This second installment in Updike's Rabbit series is even stronger than the first. I was extremely impressed with the powerful topics handled so deftly. I also felt as though this book really captured the spirit of the time. I really enjoyed this book. "

" Updike's Rabbit series is weird but it start to sort of grow on you by about the 3rd book. I can't say I ever loved this series but I did manage to get through them. He writes in such an impersonal way it's like he leaves the best part out - for me at least. "

" Tiresome: by the third section, unreadably so. "

" Good one. Better than 'Rabbit, Run'. The plot is more captivating, but still lacks some kind of a twist. Must-read if you are interested in the philosophy of the 1960's. Blacks, hippies, drugs, Vietnam - here you can find it all. "

" Painfully out of date. "

" After reading Rabbit is Rich for book group, I got hooked. I went back and re-read the earlier Rabbit books and was very excited to learn that there was another book. After all, Rabbit dies in Rabbit At Rest. "

" Wonderfully written, but a little heavy-handed from the perspective of 2010. But like all the Rabbit books, a sharp-eyed account of the country in 1969. "

" re-reading the Rabbit series. still so delicious, and fresh. "

" I really don't get these books. Although I quite like his other writings. "

" Updike's Rabbit series is weird but it start to sort of grow on you by about the 3rd book. I can't say I ever loved this series but I did manage to get through them. He writes in such an impersonal way it's like he leaves the best part out - for me at least. "

" Excellent book about the '60s in the United States. "

" very well written, but I just don't like the characters. They are too real, too flawed, for fiction. "