My first thoughts when
reading this book was this poor man, his entire life has gone to crap! His way of describing his apartment, his
work, his life, his thoughts on how things got that bad were dark but at times
funny! I’ve been around men who were that
depressed, and the thoughts they come up with are not always something I can
relate to because even at my worst, I’ve always been something of an
optimist. I enjoyed the book for the
most part and felt the need to finish it, I had to find out if this poor guy
was going to off himself or have someone do it for him, and/or if he was going
to follow through with it!
This book was about Wesley
Weimer a prison guard, divorced twice, father of two children whom he can’t
really relate to, with no money left over after child support and rent. He has
gotten to the bottom and can’t seem to find his way up. He had dreams at one
time, he wanted to go to college he had things he wanted to do with his life
and working as a prison guard was not really more than a blip on his radar in
starting off with his life’s work. He
now believes that his life is at the bottom and he has no way to go up….he can
only go along with all of the life sucked out of him.
Its Christmas time, the time
of year that takes anyone who is already deeply depressed further down. The expectation of family, the expectation of
the person going through the holidays, of which expectations of self can’t come
close to meeting. A bad time of year for
someone who is already at the bottom.
Wesley actually goes through finding a
criminal in the prison, who he can pay to off him. The big problem is he only can come up with a
down payment, he doesn’t have the money!
He goes through buying an insurance policy that he believes will be
enough to take care of his children and his Mother….he can’t commit suicide as
the policy wouldn’t pay. He has to come
up with a way to find the rest of the money in order to get him killed. Will he
do it? Will he go through with it? You’ll have to read the book to find out! I did and I liked the book.
The books description:
THE POOR MAN’S GUIDE TO SUICIDE
is a powerful, slashing, terrifying, hilarious, explosive, sarcastic,
misanthropic and lyrical black comedy about losing your will to live—and
possibly getting it back.
OVERVIEW
Wesley Weimer, a twice-divorced prison guard and failed father of two, realizes that his life has grown lifeless. Child support payments suck him dry and so he’ll never finish that degree. Most of his free time is spent tending to his crippled mother or else writhing through painful visits with his children.
So with Christmas right around the corner, Wesley persuades a prisoner to strangle him for ten thousand dollars—this way, at least his kids can cash in on the life insurance. The only problem is, he doesn’t have ten thousand dollars…
THE POOR MAN’S GUIDE TO SUICIDE is a noir why-done-it that shoves a microscope into the guts of a bleak yet fascinating subculture while managing to throw a spiritual life-ring to a drowning demographic: non-custodial fathers
OVERVIEW
Wesley Weimer, a twice-divorced prison guard and failed father of two, realizes that his life has grown lifeless. Child support payments suck him dry and so he’ll never finish that degree. Most of his free time is spent tending to his crippled mother or else writhing through painful visits with his children.
So with Christmas right around the corner, Wesley persuades a prisoner to strangle him for ten thousand dollars—this way, at least his kids can cash in on the life insurance. The only problem is, he doesn’t have ten thousand dollars…
THE POOR MAN’S GUIDE TO SUICIDE is a noir why-done-it that shoves a microscope into the guts of a bleak yet fascinating subculture while managing to throw a spiritual life-ring to a drowning demographic: non-custodial fathers
