Hey, Look Who Scored!
In a move that should be completely unsurprising to anyone who's been in this death pool in years previous, the one and only Pete is first to score in the 2009 Celebrity Death Pool.
As you may or may not already know, author John Updike has died. Updike wrote a ton of books, some of which my sisters refer to as the Rabbit books and I refer to as books I haven't read. Also over a long Thanksgiving drive I tried listening to The Witches of Eastwick as an audiobook but I did not make it very far. Anyway, now he's dead.
And hey, we have a scoreboard!
Pete = 1 point
Everyone else = 0 points
As you may or may not already know, author John Updike has died. Updike wrote a ton of books, some of which my sisters refer to as the Rabbit books and I refer to as books I haven't read. Also over a long Thanksgiving drive I tried listening to The Witches of Eastwick as an audiobook but I did not make it very far. Anyway, now he's dead.
And hey, we have a scoreboard!
Pete = 1 point
Everyone else = 0 points
posted by Courtney at 11:10 AM
2 Comments:
Yes! I mean... No!
I read Updike's Brazil while recovering from food poisoning in Cambodia. Agony piled upon agony. The horror, the horror....
I think he won a "Bad Sex Writing Lifetime Achievement Award" from some magazine in Britain last year. Not surprising.
But... who am I to disparage John Updike? The Rabbit books are supposed to be excellent. And his book reviews in the New Yorker were always insightful and well-crafted.
R.I.P.
Yeah, he is clearly a better writer than I would ever be and so I have to respect that. That said, there's a reason I did not finish Witches of Eastwick.
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