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Title: Love the Writing, Hate the Story
Review: Updike's prose is lyrical. His observational skills and ability to distill a moment, a complex idea or emotion are poetic. His story crafting is legend and well deserved. However, I hated this story. Reading it was like listening to a favorite song only to realize the lyrics are describing something repugnant. Maybe I'm burned out on the anti-hero or just tired of being sympathetic towards dirtbags who are too unclever to meet even a modicum of their responsibilities as they reinvent their lives or search for meaning. Whatever the cause, I'll run from spending yet another second with "Rabbit."
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