John Updike’s Rabbit books

Yesterday I bought all 4 of John Updike's Rabbit books at the library bookstore, as well as Licks of Love. Which has Rabbit Remembered.

I do find the premise really interesting. Seeing America from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s from Rabbit and Updike's point of view. I've read many reviews of the series, and some love it, while others hate it. I do like how descriptive Updike makes the scenes- but he goes WAY too overboard with descriptiveness sometimes, to the point where it takes 10 pages to do what should be done in 1, and you just see these walls of text. There was a sex scene early on in the book, and it wasn't very good. It kind of feels like nihilistic historical fiction like Catcher in the Rye. Rabbit really isn't a great person, but I still like seeing the world from his point of view.

I'm wondering if I should read these or just sell them as a set. Yesterday was the first time I even heard about the Rabbit books. It never really got major literary recognition, Rabbit Run was the only one to get a movie, and it is fairly difficult to read and understand what is going on. Some consider it as an important work of American cultural fiction, and other Redditors had to read the book as part of high school or college classes. My local library doesn't even carry the books.

I do really like how Rabbit, Run transported me to 60s Pennsylvania, and really captures how this town feels. But besides descriptions of the scenery, there really isn't much there. The scenery and descriptions are great, but it doesn't feel like the characters are there to maintain my interest in the story.