{"id":5314,"date":"2021-12-22T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2021-12-22T10:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:15:52","slug":"keanu-reeves-says-updikes-rabbit-novels-are-now-his-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/12\/22\/keanu-reeves-says-updikes-rabbit-novels-are-now-his-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves says Updike&#8217;s Rabbit novels are now his favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-22-at-9.10.40-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-22-at-9.10.40-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-22-at-9.10.40-AM.png 317w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-22-at-9.10.40-AM-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keanu Reeves <\/strong>was in the news again with the release of the new <em>Matrix <\/em>film, <em>The Matrix Resurrections<\/em>, in which Reeves reprises his iconic role of Neo. That means he&#8217;s now a hot interview subject, and interviewer Swapnil Dhruv Bose decided to ask the actor to name his all-time favorite books for <em>Far Out Magazine.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Updike&#8217;s Rabbit tetralogy made <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/keanu-reeves-all-time-favourite-books\/\">the list<\/a>. According to Bose, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While discussing the works listed above, Reeves claimed that <em>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> was his favourite book as a child which sparked his interest in reading. Later, as a teenager, he matured into more serious existential works and started exploring the literary legacy of Fyodor Dostoevsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After discovering Dostoevsky, Reeves enjoyed the works of authors such as Jim Thompson and William Gibson until he discovered Marcel Proust\u2019s modernist magnum opus <em>In Search of Lost Time<\/em>. As an ageing actor now, he revealed that he finds more truth in the seminal <em>Rabbit <\/em>series by John Updike.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanu Reeves was in the news again with the release of the new Matrix film, The Matrix Resurrections, in which Reeves reprises his iconic role of Neo. That means he&#8217;s now a hot interview subject, and interviewer Swapnil Dhruv Bose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/12\/22\/keanu-reeves-says-updikes-rabbit-novels-are-now-his-favorite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5316,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}