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... store. Forget the title, but my high school brain was like, "Whoa! This is cool!"
Time to dig out my copy of The Centaur and Couples. My dad read the "Rabbit" books. Author John Updike has died at age 75 after battling lung cancer. I only read a few of his books, The Centaur and The Witches of Eastwick being among them, but he was a pillar of the American Literature scene for several generation. Rest in peace, John. ... are so much more sophisticated due to the life-long visual grammar lesson that is television (before that, movies).
The Centaur sounds ghastly to me, so I won't likely be picking it up...though I think the hypothesis, so reminiscent of the Gaia Hypothesis, sounds pretty solid. Then ... ... Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit, Run, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, Terrorist, Couples, Gertrude and Claudius, The Centaur, In the Beauty of the Lilies, Memories of the Ford Administration, Brazil and A Month of Sundays. Aruba - I wasn't a huge fan of it. If I hadn't read The Centaur first, I'd probably move further Updike books to the bottom of the list. It wasn't horrible, but there are so many more books to read! Of course, looking at my library it might be a little misleading. I've read a lot of lite lit, but ... ... ck.
Snow Crash was good, but not something i picked, it was a suggestion. Then We Came to the End was a random pick...
The Centaur
The Rake
Martin Dressler: The Story of an American Dreamer
Cryptonomicon (in progress)
reviews of the last 4 or 5 things i read this week are at
www ... All the King's Horses
Centaur, by John Updike
Equus, by Peter Shaffer
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
Shank's Mare, by Ikku Jippensha
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