Some people want to sell you the house John Updike grew up in, for twice what it is worth

Here's a firecracker-hot listing on the eBay -- the brick dwelling in Shillington that John updike called home until he was 13. Ah, and the memories live on:

John Updike’s Bedroom
This room was where John Updike slept during his years in this house. Updike described the room in one of his writings . . . My bedroom was a narrow back room, with a bookshelf and some framed illustrations, by Vernon Grant, of nursery rhymes; it overlooked the back yard and adjoined my parents’ bedroom.

The Attic
On a visit here in 1999,  John Updike told us that the attic had the same odor he remembered from his childhood. The attic was another place that young John Updike liked to retire to for reading or drawing.

Bidding, for which there is none, starts at $249,000, but you could steal it now forvthe buy-it-now price of $499,000.

As The Atlantic's Ray Gustini puts it,  as of 2009, a detatched house in Shillington sold for an average price of $158,467.