It's a restless feeling reading this book, knowing Rabbit soon will be at rest. From the very beginning, this book has a very gloomy sense of death arousing. Still, after reading 500+ pages, Rabbit was still alive playing basketball with some black kids. Then suddenly death struck him as it did to its readers, me. Every book in Rabbit series leaves me feeling miserable. First, baby Rebecca dies. Second, Jill dies. Third, Thelma's love dies. Finally, he dies, so does the book. Even so, this Rabbit series is a fucking triumph. I have never read a contemporary novel that examines our modern lives so thoroughly, and makes it so much fun as this.
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