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Title: Centaur by John Updike ISBN: 0-449-91216-7 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: two worlds combined
Comment: a fascinating technique employed by updike where he combines two diiferent worlds to deliver a poignant story
Rating: 4
Summary: Near masterpiece?
Comment: As usual, Updike has no trouble absorbing the reader into his nostalgic and pensive, fantasy Pennsylvania world. Here, the author's glowing nostalgia mixes easily with sparkling snow of the story. Interestingly, the author draws a parallel to the mythic Centaur without straining the plot or breaking the rythm of story telling. However, the implications are not quite profound.
Rating: 1
Summary: Keep mythology for the Greeks
Comment: I listened to this book as a Book on Tape. Although it was well read, it was very difficult to follow as the narration jumped from past to present (to what from some perspectives is the future) and from the father's view to the son's. Add to that bites of greek mythology, that did not tie very well to the main body of the novel.
I also grew weary of Updike's far reaching literary blather, such as the twigs on on the snow were calligraphical, and using the word "ambrosial" numerous times.
I felt the book was weakend by the forced interweaving of a Greek myth that most modern day readers aren't familar with. Too cute for words!
I only kept reading to see how the father sacrifices himself for his son. It did say he died at 50, but never gives any of the details. Infuriating!
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Title: Couples by John Updike ISBN: 044991190X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Marry Me : A Romance by John Updike ISBN: 0449912159 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Pigeon Feathers by John Updike ISBN: 0449912256 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike ISBN: 0679444599 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 17 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Rabbit Redux by John Updike ISBN: 0449911934 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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