The Virgin Suicides

Bleh. 

Ok the writing is pretty good but it just didn’t hold my attention.

 

The story is about 5 girls growing up in a very tightly controlled house. You have all the classic clichés:  controlling mother, passive uninvolved dad, and 5 girls who are on the brink of suicide. The story is told by the neighborhood boys so that adds a really weird yet interesting bend to the story. However, I was simply not interested in what the neighborhood boys thought of their neighborhood girls. It just wasn’t my kind of read. A good book though – so I’m going to give it a “So/So” rating. You might like it – you might not. The 5 girls do end up killing themselves in the story, I think. I can’t be sure b/c I haven’t read the whole thing.

I think I would like the movie though and am going to go to put it on reserve at my public library right now.

Ok!  Onto the next book!!