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John Updike dead
« on: January 27, 2009, 10:34:29 AM »


John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 10:43:27 AM »
He was one of my favorite novelists
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2009, 10:21:15 PM »
Quote from: Blader on January 27, 2009, 10:43:27 AM
He was one of my favorite novelists
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Seriously: Never read a book of his I liked. I should LOVE him. Like Mailer, love Pynchon, Updike not so much.

Still, I won't say the fact that I didn't really get his work means he is any less than a literary giant of the past century whose passing should be noted with great sorrow, and a question:

Where will the literary giants of the 21st century come from, or more specifically what medium will they work in?

I haven't seen a really good AMERICAN novelist come along in the last 25 years.
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