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82. Little Children de Tom Perrotta
Une déception : la prémisse était prometteuse - un départ sur le grand classique Madame Bovary, mais très vite, le roman s'étiole, les personnages, bien que bien développés, s'embourbent dans leur monde. Ce serait encore passable s'il n'y avait pas ... I'm reading Little Children by Tom Perrotta. I'm divided: on the one hand it's a superficial but entertaining critique of suburban life with a creepy twist, on the other it has vague pretensions of being intellectual but just doesn't pull it off.
There are heavy-handed allusions to Madame Bovar ... Tom Perrotta is one of my favorite authors. He wrote Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher, among others and his books are always critical and compassionate of modern life. Bad Haircut is his first book and consists of a series of chronologically arranged stories about a New Jersey ... ... by Dan Cruickshank
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Return by Victoria Hislop
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Now, off to bed with a cup of tea to actually READ instead of just talking/thinking about it all day!
... Place
40. Unaccustomed Earth
41. The Education of Henry Adams
42. The Promised Land
43. The Crucible
44. Little Children
45. Boston Adventure
46. On The Road
47. One Boy's Boston
48. The House of Sand and Fog
49. Sophie's Choice
50. Waiting ... by Jill Lepore
3. Names and places : studies in geographical and topographical nomenclature by J.D. Whitney
4. Little children by Tom Perrotta
5. American Road by Pete Davies
6. What they fought for, 1861-1865 by James McPherson
7. Triangle the fire that changed A ... Hi Donna
Congratulations on your "hot" review for Little Children listed on today's home page.
I read The Abstinence Teacher and I really enjoyed it. I like his writing style. I did not read Little Children but I did see the film with Kate Winslet and it was very good. The pedophile character was really creepy! Just popped in to say congratulations on the hot review of Little Children ... to happen, but nothing ever did. It was enough to put me off the author from then on. After reading the summary of Little Children, I don't think I'll change my mind anytime soon. ... Kathi. I hope you and the others who have shown an interest enjoy The Indifferent Stars Above.
Book No. 39: Little Children by Tom Perrotta. 3 stars.
The writing was okay...I just found the subject matter distasteful. I think the best thing about it is that I now have one ... 22. Little Children by Tom Perrotta, novel set in suburbia about bored parents, what they do when they are bored, a good analysis of good and bad, right and wrong, sometimes how hard it is to tell the difference. 3 stars. I was not blown away. ... (8/31) 4 stars
9.
ideas:
Children of Men, The Kite Runner, Stardust, The Painted Veil, The Beach, Little Children
thoughts:
- i love Evelyn Waugh. and i loved Brideshead Revisited. it was so much bleaker than Vile Bodies, but it was beautiful even then. ... Little Children by Tom Perrotta. Bought at a drug store when I was unexpectedly caught book-less in Kanata. ... a movie called "Adaptation"
The Da Vinci Code
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Big Fish
House of Sand and Fog
Little Children
The Ice Storm
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Inkheart
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Eragon
Because of Winn Dixie
The Grapes of Wrath
Th ... ...
Ethan Frome
Great Expectations
How Green was my Valley
In Her Shoes
Kite Runner
Last Temptation of Christ
Little Children
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Memoirs of a Geisha
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Mists of Avalon, as well as so many King Arthur movies
... ... I didn't know that Perrotta's Election was the one that the movie is based on, but according to Wikipedia it is. His book Little Children was also made into a movie.
I have never heard of the term akrasia, but I think this concept is very important to the teaching of ethics. It is possible ... ... characters and a pointless plot. Thankful that I didn't waste too much time on this one before chucking it. I liked Little Children. ...
Some wishlisted books like
Remainder by Tom McCarthy (53 wishlists)
http://bookmooch.com/m/detail/0307278352
Little Children by Tom Perrotta (17 wishlists)
http://bookmooch.com/m/detail/0312315732
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith (11 wishlists)
h ... ... Eastman
10Pandora of Parrham Royal by Violet Needham
11No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
12Little Children by Tom Perrotta
13Breath by Tim Winton
14Wild Tea Cosies by Loani Prior
15Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
16Heath Le ... ... e.
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Angry Housewives by Lorna Landvik
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
From the Book Depository:
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
500 Things to know about the ancient ... 41. Little Children by Tom Perrotta
42. Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink ... Pocus (it is the current selection of a decidedly slow reading group I have with one other person).
Since finishing Little Children (which I was fairly unsatisfied with, if only for the lack of interesting descriptiveness that the situations might suggest) I've started The End of Alice ... ... thread will somehow catalyze my reading. Right now I am reading:
1. Kurt Vonnegut- Hocus Pocus
2. Tom Perrotta - Little Children
Tom Perrotta's Little Children is based on Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
I'm not sure if you consider A Confederacy of Dunces a classic yet, but Andrew Fox's Fat, White Vampire Blues is an homage to it.
There's lots of updated Shakespeare - Julie and Romeo for example. dreamlikecheese, I woulda thought Kate Winslet, too. But there is an exception. I read Little Children and was so disgusted with its mediocrity that I've not wanted to see the film. Unless someone can tell me it's worth it.
yareader2, I know, sometimes you get great chemistry where you're ... 2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... Little Children - Tom Perotta. A movie was made of this why? I kept waiting for something original to happen, but it was just another suburban domestic drama. No depth. Why read this when you can have Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Richard Ford etc., etc?
Until I Find You - Jo ... >123: citygirl.
I agree with you about Little Children. It was just another mediocre novel about infedelity. The movie came across the same way, which doesn't surprise me, given the material. Perrotta has a new novel out, and I have zero interest in picking it up.
Besides two Dexter books I have to finish soon, I just got from the library The Bad Girl, Little Children, and Bait and Switch. I hope to have them done the weekend of Thanksgiving. I'm starting The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta as my first selection. I really enjoyed Little Children, so I thought I'd start the 50 Book Challenge with a novel I know I can plow through.
Some other books on my list:
2) The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
3) ... I read Little Children by Tom Perrotta over the weekend ... excellent book! ... I'm now about 40 pages into Epitaph for a tramp by David Markson ... Markson is best known now for his very post-modern novels like Reader's block and Wittgenstein's mistress, but this is a noir mystery ... Oscar and Lucinda
Little Children
The Hours
The House of Sand and Fog
The Piano Little Children
The Clown
Green Grass, Running Water
Pretty Birds
The Song of Kahunsha ... Hitchens (and was disappointed in his 3 hour BookTV interview). I was in the mood for some fiction so I read Little Children by Tom Perrotta (I can now netflix the movie) and just started The Last Resort by Alison Lurie. I hope to get back to Hitchens tomorrow. Little Children. I was seriously disappointed. It's a domestic drama, but with very little new to say or any new way to say it. What's the big deal? Updike, Richard Ford, Atwood, they all do this better. And so do loads of others. Why make a movie out of it? ... month. I got these today:
* The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
* The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
* Little Children by Tom Perrotta
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Oh! I finally got one. Don't know why I'm having so much trouble.
Stuart Little
Little Children
Children of the Day
Days That Changed the World
The World is Flat
Quite a few!
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
I'm enjoying all of them immensely, and would recommend ... ... see if anyone else liked it at the store I work at. I'm pretty sure that it's not just us.
As for Tom Perotta, I read Little Children and definitely thought it was a better movie than the book. Only got half way and thought it was pretty dumb.
I'm in SUCH a slump right now. 4 failed ARC' ... Just for the record, as one who has not seen it, I see no spoiler in the Little Children comment. Thanks for the suggestions. I can't say that the story appeals to me -- I have never gotten a lot out of the "disappointments of suburban life" plot, probably because I have never lived that life, ... Ordinary People
The Grapes of Wrath
Little Children (which for some viewers/readers is really irritating. Retrograde conclusion! Everybody goes back to his/her lifeless spouse, and that's supposed to show they've grown more mature. Yuck. Makes for a good discussion, though, and Kate Winslet ... Stupid is as stupid does.
Little Children, Tom Perrotta:
"Poor baby." Currently reading Little Children by Tom Perrotta. ... someone once told me that the first book if his you read will always be your favourite...don't know if that's true?!
Little Children was one of my fave books so far this year: hope you enjoy it cafepithecus! Am reading Company by Max Barry at the moment and finding it disappointing: ... ... halfway through Marriage: A History -- very well-researched, but it's kind of putting me to sleep.
I'm going to start Little Children tonight -- haven't seen the movie and I wanted to read the book first. Little Children by Tom Perrotta. Great story so far. Just finished How to be a Canadian by Will and Ian Ferguson. Picked up Little Children by Tom Perrotta at the airport. Hate being without a book in transit as I've usually read most of what the smaller airport bookstores have. I'm planning to start The Passionate Nomad, the biography of Fre ... 5: Little Children is a great read.
I'll probably read Pride of Baghdad next, but I'm not sure. Either A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt or Little Children by Tom Perrotta. ... was similar to the book- so so. If you really enjoyed the book, you will probably enjoy the movie, in my opinion.
I read Little Children and really loved it! I can't wait to see the movie as well! It may have already passed through here, who knows. I'll keep my eye on it for a DVD rental. ... Medwed does the same for Cambridge, most enjoyably in How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life. Tom Perotta's Little Children is a good read set in a community that greatly resembles his town of Belmont.
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