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Title: Roger's Version by John Updike ISBN: 0-394-55435-3 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 August, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Intellectual rubbish
Comment: You know how it is. Brilliant author, ability to write exquisitely, with wit and a deep thought at the same time. Some time later author begin to think about important questions of existence-God and science and stuff like this. And what we have gotten. Rubbish, literally garbage of literature. Writer seems want to create a conflict of science and God, but the thing is the guy who is supposedly represent God's side isn't believer by himself(by his true nature). Explicit description of sexual encounters of two heroes doesn't add to the greatness of book either. It's just sickening. Sure sometimes you may catch glimpses of greatness in this book when author describes hero's feeling, nature and so on, you feel that writer has a great potential. But wrong person writes this book for wrong reason. Do you believe in God? Do you believe in Science? Believe in what you want but don't make a mockery of Creator. At the end He will make mockery of You.
Rating: 5
Summary: Faith in science?
Comment: I thought that this was a very enjoyable novel - indeed, shades of "Rabbit Redux". The plot centres on Roger Lambert, a Professor of Divinity, his wife Esther, his half-niece Verna, and Dale, who is convinced that he can prove the existence of God by scientific analysis.
The book is really a paean to uncertainty. Is religious faith or faith in science a sure way of explaining the meaning of life? Are human relationships as certain as we should think or wish them to be?
Updike devotes much space to a fascinating analysis of the struggle between the scientific and traditional Christian explanations of the Creation. The question arises of whether the theory of evolution has in fact become a new religion, demanding faith rather than reason, and complete with its own zealots and heretics.
Running parallel to that is Roger Lambert's own views of the lives of the other characters in the novel. And here the reader is not sure how much is real and how much is Roger's fevered imagination. Is Esther really having an affair with Dale or is it just "Roger's version" of what might have been happening?
I felt that Updike was at his challenging best in this novel - exploring many interesting themes in an entertaining way, for example the uncomfortable interaction between Roger's middle-class world and the underworld occupied by Verna is particularly disturbing, and exposes latent tensions in society.
G Rodgers
Rating: 3
Summary: It affected me....just in the WRONG way!
Comment: Very good writing and style, intriguing story. However, I guess I just didn't expect to feel somewhat sickened and a bit depressed by the story. If you want to be AFFECTED, than this book is for you. It'll grab hold of you and won't let go. It just wasn't what I was expecting. If I want to feel disgust at the actions of human beings, I'll go ahead and buy a book about Ted Bundy.
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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: Seek My Face by John Updike ISBN: 0375414908 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Month of Sundays by John Updike ISBN: 0449912205 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike ISBN: 0449911217 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike ISBN: 0449212130 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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