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Rabbit, Run

Kathy Miller
Nov 5, 2023
1 min read

Updated: Aug 30, 2025

John Updike, 1960

Date read: 11/4/23

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Every single person in this novel is horrid and I would run too.

Everybody is cruel. Everybody is selfish. Also nobody says anything directly and as a thrice-diagnosed autistic person it fucked with me, trying to understand what was really going on.

Also there's a lot of sex which is pretty graphic for a novel read in high schools.

I'm not sure why this is considered such a classic. It's just people being awful and [spoiler] both child neglect/abuse and the death of a week old infant [/spoiler].

Overall I wished Rabbit would just run further away from all these horrible people, but he is horrible too so. This whole thing is like an episode of Maury.

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