Some might say I also have a tendency to bounce from thing to thing without really thinking about it. The name is totally applicable in two ways - in high school basket ball games (I was a sporting ace don'tcha know?) a rabbit is a runner who sets the pace, and since leaving high school I appear to be breeding in a way which is prolific and almost rabbit like too. Hello everyone, I'm Harry Angstrom, but you can call me "Rabbit". The review will now proceed in the style of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. This is yet another book from the 1001 books list which has made me question whether or not the people who write the list actually like people who read books or if they are really secretly intent on torturing us all for their own amusement? I'm sorry I think I might have to pause before the start of this review and scream discretely into a pillow:ĪAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! And the trick is that it was right in front of you all along.īrilliant book, and I'd planned to read the other Rabbit novels, but I honestly detested him so much that I don't know if I'll have the stomach for another one in the near future.
Updike does a masterful job of tricking you into initially liking Rabbit, even after he leaves his pregnant wife and son and takes up with a sorta-prostitute, but then slowly showing you Rabbit's true nature. It's obvious that Rabbit isn't meant to be a hero, or even an anti-hero. I was completely unprepared for this spoiled, impulsive, selfish guy who really only cares about himself and his whims and manages to completely destroy almost everyone around him and still refuses to accept any responsibility for it. I'd had a vague idea that this story was about a former hot shot basketball player struggling to adjust to a regular life.
This is the first book by Updike I've read, and his reputation as a writer was well-earned. Urn:oclc:55224890 Republisher_date 20120214040020 Republisher_operator Scanner, do I hate Rabbit Angstrom! How much do I hate him? If I was in a room with Hannibal Lector, the Judge from Blood Meridian, the Joker from Batman, and Rabbit Angstrom, and someone handed me a gun with only 3 bullets, I'd shoot Rabbit three times. OL463836W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.18 Pages 294 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:9026951604 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:12:15 Boxid IA170901 Boxid_2 CH103001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 51.
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