Lala Pipo is a very dirty book. It’s got a strange fascination with the entanglement of ordinary people and extraordinarily perverted sex. But Lala Pipo isn’t a pornographic book per se, it’s intent is more to explore than excite. Told in a series of interweaving stories Lala Pipo follows several very lonely people as they try to connect to the world around them. Their intersection with others often happens sexually and almost always has an unhappy ending.

Author Hideo Okuda does a fantastic job of weaving these short stories into a cohesive whole. Rather than a book of six short stories Lala Pipo is a complete novel where each character gets their own complete storyline and several events are seen from more than one perspective.

If you’re easily offended by sexuality then obviously Lala Pipo won’t be for you, but for people who think literature shouldn’t shy away from dealing with the sexual relationships between people Lala Pipo is worth checking out. I found it to be a well written, engaging and entertaining book.