"Rabbit, Run" by John Updike

Rabbit, Run by John Updike
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Ok book. It tells the story of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a middle-class American, married with one kid and another on the way. He is a former star basketball player in High School, who is no longer the star and doesn't know what to do with his life. He starts hating his life, so he leaves his wife, and takes up with a part-time prostitute for a little while. The book is mostly about his conversations with the people around him, and about him fumbling around without knowing what to do. The book is insightful and uncensored, taking a hard look into the concepts of family and marriage. The problem is, it's mostly boring. The first half of the book was extremely boring, and I was tempted to stop listening to it many times. Halfway through, things start becoming a little more interesting, mostly because that's when things get harder, and Updike starts looking at what is going on with the other characters a little. But it's just a little, he doesn't explorer them too deeply nor for too long a time. In the end, it was just ok.

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