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5.0 out of 5 stars What 5 stars are for, May 21 2004
This review is from: Rabbit at Rest (Paperback)
This book is greatness. It is what five stars are for. Obviously, being the last of the Rabbit series, it is about our hero's demise. There's very little I can say that won't "spoil the ending" for you. The ending is really touching. The author ties it all together. He even closes a loose end about his "other" daughter, letting us know that the girl he met at the car lot, and making a reprise at the hospital, is in fact his own biological daughter. He goes the way he should go. And his wife and son react just right. If you don't appreciate this book, it isn't because there is something lacking in the book, it is because there's something lacking in you. Sorry, but you just missed it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Genious at Work, May 1 2004
This review is from: Rabbit At Rest (Hardcover)
When I read this book, I thought of the faults of all human beings but how we all strive to be as good as we can be.
Harry is a very average, and is challenged by a lot of imperfections. Updike is a writer who can take average situations and make them surreal. Harry's angst about his son who is hooked on cocaine, the nature of the car business, and his dull and boring marriage. While being angry at his son's addiction, Harry is addicted to food and the comfort commercial America promises him. As the Publisher's Weekly stated, its about the aborted American dream, or is Updike saying something deeper about American, about its meaningless materialism and about the things we value. This was the best of the Rabbit series. The writing about Harry's slow personal disintegration can be painful to read about, but even more painful, finding some parallels between my life and Harry's.

Reading Updike is like entering a colorful dream world which also urges the soul to consider some grim realities.

Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown Eyed Boy"

p.s. Another Updike book I would recommend: "Roger's Version"

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, but Rabbit Run was Better, April 11 2004
This review is from: Rabbit at Rest (Paperback)
Not quite as captivating as "Rabbit Run" but quite excellently written; I guess writing about somebody's slow demise just doesn't lend itself to intense interest, not like the living foibles of a character's life, as you find in "Run." Updike is a master of prose and this is extremely well researched. Very few living people can write fiction as well.
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3.0 out of 5 stars So Long Rabbit
I hate to be a curmudgeon when it comes to Pulitzer Prize winners and great writers like John Updike, but this final installment featuring Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom has flaws that... Read more
Published on Dec 30 2003 by C. Baker

4.0 out of 5 stars R.I.P. Rabbit
The last novel in John Updike's famous tetralogy finds that life is finally winding down for Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, as America heads into 1989 with a new President and an... Read more
Published on Jun 5 2003 by A.J.

5.0 out of 5 stars A satisfying final installment of the Rabbit books
This book is the final volume in the four-novel saga of Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom, so you know it is going to tie up some loose ends, and it does, some neatly and some... Read more
Published on Oct 8 2002 by Matthew Taylor

3.0 out of 5 stars There's Always Something: The Angstrom Saga Continues
This is the final book in John Updike's Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom tetralogy. It is a good book with much to recommend, particularly the author's interesting fleshing-out of the... Read more
Published on Jul 1 2002 by IRA Ross

5.0 out of 5 stars They grow up and they never change
In this book, the Angstroms are semi-retired and living in Florida. Rabbit has a heart condition and he's not doing anything to improve his health. Read more
Published on Jan 31 2002 by Thomas Stamper

3.0 out of 5 stars My thoughts
I feel that the beginning of this book started off kind of shaky and slow. I will also admit that it would have been helpful to know the past of "Rabbit" and his family... Read more
Published on Jan 27 2002 by JB

4.0 out of 5 stars Another beauty
Another masterpiece.

A good subtitle could be, "Rabbit gets more crotchety, but more lovable. Read more

Published on Jan 6 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Reflecting on Rabbit
I think one has to read all four Rabbit novels in order to feel the full brunt of Updike's writing. I read the first three last month while backpacking around Europe, and it was... Read more
Published on Jun 26 2001 by kevin980

3.0 out of 5 stars A verbose, drawn-out Updike
Having read many other rave reviews, I feel bothered by the fact that I found this book so shallow in character(s) and lengthy in descriptions. Read more
Published on Mar 30 2001 by R. Childs

4.0 out of 5 stars An Ending for "Mr. Death"
Rabbit feels death approaching him in one way or another in every episode of this tetralogy, and Rabbit at Rest finds a man who finally had carved out a position for himself, in... Read more
Published on Mar 12 2001 by JZK

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