I find something incredibly sad in the death of John Updike.

I still really dislike Rabbit, Run in a visceral way, but I read The Centaur recently and I found it quite good.

There is something to be said for an author who was very successful for a very long time. Someone who pursued an art, whether you liked it or not, and kept at it, not lost to suicide or squandered with addiction or defeated by commercialism.