Revolutionary Road

I did not like this book. It was a bunch of unhappy people, being unhappy and doing nothing to make their joyless lives any better — just complaining all the time, while being immature and lazy and pretentious. The description on the back of the book (“... the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple ... bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary”) was entirely misleading, because they weren't bored or longing for anything — they were miserable and snobby (without having any reason to be either of those), and they were unwilling to do anything about it except continually cheat on each other. Zero stars.