Date: 2009-01-27 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hulamoth.livejournal.com
I know, I just heard, it's terrible.

Date: 2009-01-27 06:57 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-01-27 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] particle-person.livejournal.com
I can't say he was my favorite author, but I'm sorry he's dead. (Didn't he win one of those "worst sex scenes ever" contests? I know Tom Wolfe did.)

Date: 2009-01-27 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hulamoth.livejournal.com
yeah, but he laughed about it, so he's pretty cool I think, even though he's not my favorite author either.

Date: 2009-01-27 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Yeah, I seem to remember that too, although I have blessedly forgotten exactly in what way it was a bad sex scene.

Date: 2009-01-27 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soulforophelia.livejournal.com
Oh no!!!! He grew up in the town I went to college. He'd come to campus a lot and it was like a requirement to read his work. Aww, I'm so sad. :( My professors are going to be crushed.

Date: 2009-01-27 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aestasbeyond.livejournal.com
I just heard. It's really upsetting. I'm almost as sad as when Kurt Vonnegut died. :(

Date: 2009-01-27 07:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] laerwen.livejournal.com
Oh maaan. :( I can't say I have read his work, but, I understand his significance. And he's a North Shore kinda guy (for those of us that have lived in Massachusetts). Rest in peace.

Date: 2009-01-27 07:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-01-27 07:09 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-01-27 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crescent-gaia.livejournal.com
:( is about all I can really say right now.

Date: 2009-01-27 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bgmaster.livejournal.com
I never read much in the way of his fiction, but as a Red Sox fan I'll always remember him for one of the greatest pieces of sportswriting ever: Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu_article.shtml).

"Gods do not answer letters."

Date: 2009-01-27 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spectralbovine.livejournal.com
Damn. I was just looking at The Widows of Eastwick the other day. I've never read anything by him, though.

Date: 2009-01-27 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unicornluvr.livejournal.com
"An Irish temper makes you appreciate Lutherans."

Bless.

Date: 2009-01-27 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tinuviell.livejournal.com
Can authors stop with the dying? This month alone, it's been Donald Westlake, John Mortimer, and now John Updike. I keep making memorial displays at the library, and I really wish I wasn't.

Date: 2009-01-27 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lylassandra.livejournal.com
At least we hit three. That means it can stop now. Right?

Date: 2009-01-27 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linz-lou.livejournal.com
Oh, wow. I just got a copy of one of his books in the mail. I really hate to hear that. :(

Date: 2009-01-27 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiandra-fire.livejournal.com
Anytime authors could stop dying, that would be great. Maybe hold off till March? Let's declare February a No Authors Die Please Month. And send out memos so that they will know that we would appreciate it if they could refrain from dying for a while.

I'd better write thank-you notes to some of my favorite authors before they jump on the wagon, too.

Date: 2009-01-27 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellerigbee.livejournal.com
Damn it world! Don't you know 2008 is over? Monday night Manners, today, Updike. I don't even want to turn my computer on tomorrow.

Date: 2009-01-27 10:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greedyskunk.livejournal.com
Oh no! I just read "A & P" last term for my short fiction Lit class. I liked his folksy writing style.

Date: 2009-01-27 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackdiamants.livejournal.com
What the fuck, why is *everyone* getting offed this week?!

Date: 2009-01-27 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edda.livejournal.com
I'm not a huge fan of his, but it definitely feels like the end of something. *sigh*

Date: 2009-01-28 01:28 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-01-28 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_stormthesea/
So, following in the footsteps of 2007 and 2008, 2009 will continue the tradition of killing authors.

Also, were you aware that Augusten Burroughs indirectly killed him? (http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/27/augusten-burroughs-remembers-john-updike-sort-of/) I am just saying.

Date: 2009-01-28 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com
Man, I am so relieved he had me laughing by the end of that.

Date: 2009-01-28 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angeleyesjg24.livejournal.com
:(

Can I just say, though: I will not be happy with my life unless my obituary notice is half this awesom

Date: 2009-01-28 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pennylane1942.livejournal.com
This afternoon, just as soon as I finished typing up my writing assignment re: John Updike's story "A&P" for my fiction class, I opened up Firefox and there was the news that he was dead. Boom.

I'm not really a fan of his, but damn, he wrote good stuff and lots of it.

Date: 2009-01-28 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kismeteve.livejournal.com
That sucks. I've never been a fan of his novels, but his art criticism is pretty interesting.
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