One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
I think that had I read this book of Trooper's first, I would have liked it more. But after reading "This is Where I Leave You", which I loved, I expected more from this book. Although there were moments in the book that had Trooper's insight, awkwardness and hilarity, they were few and far between. Also, although most characters were developed well and you really get a sense of them, I missed that a bit in the main character Silver. Throughout the book everyone keeps mentioning how much of a jerk he is, and besides being somewhat of an absentee father and husband before the divorce there isn't further explanation of why everyone says this. And everything he does in the book, although often a bit illogical, aren't necessarily malicious actions.
I may have put too high of expectations and thus was more disappointed and bored than I should have been, but I wouldn't recommend this book from this author.
Synopsis: “Mistakes have been made.”
Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down.
So when Silver learns that he requires emergency life-saving heart surgery, he makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to spend what time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment—even if that moment isn’t going to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether or not his own life is worth saving.