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Title: Run Away from "Rabbit, Run"
Review: Having just finished this book I'm kind of sorry I did. Not completely sorry, as I liked the interactions between people and think Updike has a great eye for what makes people tick. But, about 100 pages into the book I was tired of reading all the net and snare metaphors ridden to exhaustion and decided to skip most of the overwrought description and focus on the interactions between people. The one thing that kept me going was a mild interest in seeing how Rabbit would devolve or evolve, but honestly, unlike most of the other characters, he's the same jackass at the end of the book that he is at the beginning. In the real world people who refuse to learn from experience are oddly fascinating, at first, but in books they stale quickly. Maybe the Rabbit series gets better, I hope so, but, I don't think I'll ever find out.
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