Little Children by Tom Perrota

I didn't find this book very good. There's a feeling- like you're peeking and seeing things you shouldn't- that makes it interesting. But the storyline is very banal and too American Beauty-ish, and it's so negative and exagerated. Perrota sems not to know what he wants to do; some characters apeear and disappear all of sudden and the ending is confused and a real let down to me. The characters are too clichéd, we've all seen them before and they are too banal, they never reach an approprate intensity so it's hard to fel fascinated by them. The writing is good, as is Perrota's dark humor and satyrical view of life in suburbs, and there are some great scenes. I found one of the characters to be very original, but the way he acts sometimes really doesn't fit in the rest of the story. This is not a bad book, but I don't really recommend it either.