Great Regulars: Anyway, Updike was kind of impenetrable for me.

I shrugged at "A & P." I made it twenty pages into Rabbit, Run before declaring it crap. At first I assumed it was because he was a bad writer. I'm still slowly learning that, about ninety-eight percent of the time, authors regarded as great are usually great.

from Max Ross: The Rake: Cracking Spines: Thoughts on Updike

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