> What Roth didn't say but could have was that while Updike's best sentences may have been better than Roth's, he also wrote many more bad ones. That sounds ri

> What Roth didn't say but could have was that while Updike's best sentences may have been better than Roth's, he also wrote many more bad ones. That sounds right. The author could have added that most of Updike's best sentences are in his stories, not his novels.